The closure of libraries, a museum and switching off street lights are just some of the possible cuts announced as part of a council budget consultation.

Harrow Borough Council has launched the consultation for next year’s budget with the authority facing cuts from central government of £75million over the next four years.

The council must cut £25million in next year’s budget and says it wants to talk to the people of Harrow about what they want to priorities spending on.

The consultation, called Take Part, lists the possible options for the first round of cuts in the next year.

These include switching off street lights, closure of reduction in council children services, closure of the Harrow Museum, and closure of some council libraries.

The consultation also puts forward the proposal of increasing council tax in the borough by two per cent, which would give the authority nearly £2million more each year.

Cabinet member for finance, Sachin Shah said: “This year is the Harrow faces one of the largest funding gaps ever.

“Over the last four years we have made cuts and met that gap. But now we face extremely tough decisions for the next four years.

“The reason we have started this consultation early is because we want to be honest with the people of Harrow about the challenge we are facing.

“This is about us starting a conversation with people and let them tell us what they want spend money on and what they want to prioritise.

“None of the options mentioned in the consultation are set in stone but some of them will have to be done in order for us to meet the funding gap.”

Leader of the Council David Perry said: “I think people will be surprised about some of the options on the table to deal with these cuts.

“However these £75million of cuts are a fact and they are coming and we have to do something.

“I think sometimes people thing politicians aren’t very honest and what we are trying to do here is be as open as possible about what our plans are.”

The council is urging people to take part in the consultation over the next eight weeks.

It will then use the results to produce a draft budget which will go out for statutory consultation in December this year, before the budget is passed in 2015.