Council Tax and budgets
Find out how to pay Council Tax to your local district Council and how we use the money.
We continue to listen to what is important to our residents and this is reflected in our budget this year.
We are funding a record £40 million extra for adults and children’s social care to protect the most vulnerable in our society.
At the same time, we are investing in the things that residents tell us are important and need improving, such as better roads and pavements, tackling congestion and improving public transport.
We are doing all this whilst keeping the level of our Council Tax to one of the very lowest of any County Council in the country. The increase is less than inflation and equivalent to £1.33 per week for a Band D property.
Total spend in 2023/2034
- Adult Social Care, Public Health and communities £359m
- Children's Services £396m
- Economy, Infrastructure and the Environment £100m
- Corporate Services, including finance, legal and cost of borrowing £80m
- Total spend: £935m
In response to what you have told us, we are investing
- a further £19.4m for highways in addition to the £36m agreed last year to improve roads
- £12m to improve pavements
- £3m to renew highways drainage and flood maintenance
- £500,000 for minor highways works
- 150,000 trees to be planted to develop sustainable woodlands
- additional £3.5 to maintain bus services
- £6m to improve street lighting
- £53m on a new secondary school new school places across the county
- £268m for those who need Adult Social Care in 23/24
- £146m to improve the lives of children and young people
- £91m to support people to live independently for longer through Public Health and Communities.
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