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  Hardly fair to impose a return charge: most lenders return books to the 'wrong' library because they've been forced to reserve a book held by another library that their own library doesn't stock. Charging for returning it at your own library would thus result in a double levy.
  
  To the main point: reducing opening hours will inevitably result in reducing local staff hours and, ultimately, in reducing local staff, and they'll be front-of-house staff too, as most of the backroom stuff (book ordering, processing, cataloguing) is now done centrally, i.e. in Maidstone.
  
  Libraries are a social good and, like other social goods under this insane economic system, they're easy targets.

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