Your Council Tax helps pay for local services such as:
- schools, education and youth services
- libraries
- parks, open spaces and galleries
- social care for the elderly, children and other vulnerable members of the community
- support for the voluntary sector
- planning and building control
- waste collection, street cleaning and other environmental issues
- maintenance of roads and bridges
- traffic management and road safety
- parking services and control
- election, registrars of births, deaths and marriages
- cemeteries, crematoria and mortuary services
- consumer protection
- economic development and regeneration
- community development services
- housing provision, strategy, advice and services for the homeless
- housing benefits and Council Tax administration