Council. Full Council sets the budget and council tax and approves major plans.
Council Tax Reduction Scheme 2025/26
Council agreed to adopt the 2025/26 scheme and to keep its existing optional elements. These are: no increase in the backdating period above the standard 3 months, and no increase in the extended reduction period above the standard 4 weeks. It also agreed to disregard 100% of War Disablement Pensions, War Widows Pensions and War Widower's Pensions for all claimants.
Council. Full Council sets the budget and council tax and approves major plans.
Council Tax Reduction Scheme
Members approved the Council Tax Reduction Scheme, ready for use from 1 April 2026.
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.