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Cabinet. The Cabinet makes most of the council's decisions.
Council house rent rise and housing budget 2025/26
Cabinet adopted the Housing Revenue Account budget for 2025/26 and the Housing Stock Business Plan. It increased council house rents by 2.7%, to an average weekly rent of £112.29 from 7 April 2025. It noted an additional report on the factors considered in setting the rent, and confirmed it had considered the Well-being Impact Assessment.
Cabinet. The Cabinet makes most of the council's decisions.
Council rent rise of 4.3% and housing budgets for 2026/27
Cabinet adopted the 2026/27 Housing Revenue Account budget and the Housing Stock Business Plan. It approved a 4.3% rise in council rents, to an average of £117.31 a week from 6 April 2026. It also noted the additional report and confirmed it had considered the well-being impact assessment.
Items are linked when their titles share most of their words and they fall within 18 months of each other. Councils don't number reports across meetings, so a few links may be wrong, and a step may be missing if its title changed a lot. Each step links to the meeting, where the council's own papers are.