Budget 2024/25 Consultation

Every year, the council must agree a legal and balanced budget that sets out how much we intend to spend in the coming year and how we propose to raise the necessary income to meet these spending plans.

The council's main sources of income are Council Tax, Business Rates and government grants. Over the past 13 years, the amount of money available to the council has fallen. This is a situation that's being seen across the country and has led to councils facing a cost of operating crisis.

We sought your views on our approach to setting a balanced and legal budget. We asked for your views on the level of Council Tax and Social Care Precept (Social Care Precept is an additional charge which councils are permitted to add in some years on top of the Council Tax increase to help pay for adult social care).

We included information about other ways we propose to reduce costs or generate more income, to help to balance the budget. We did not consult on the savings proposals this year because we do not think that they are likely to mean major changes to services the council provides.

We included a comments section where you could give us your views on any aspect of our budget, including our savings proposals if you wished to, and you could tell us your suggestions for other ways we might save money or increase income to balance the budget.

• pdf Budget information guide(918 KB)
• pdf About the survey(413 KB)
• pdf Easy Read version of budget information and survey(7.41 MB)