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COUNCIL TAX RESOLUTION 2025/26

 

 

Meeting: 27/02/2025 - Council (Item 98)

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REPORT OF THE SERVICE DIRECTOR – RESOURCES

 

The purpose of this report is to obtain approval for the Council Tax requirement and the overall Council Tax rates for the district of North Hertfordshire for 2025/26.

Additional documents:

Decision:

RESOLVED: That Council:

 

(1)   Noted that at its meeting on 23 January 2025 the Council Tax Setting Committee confirmed the amount 50,836.30 as its Council Tax base for the year 2025/2026 in accordance with regulation 3 of the Local Authorities (Calculation of Council Tax Base) Regulations 2012 (the Regulations).

 

b)    50,836.30 being the amount calculated by the Council, in accordance with Regulation 3 of the Regulations, as its Council Tax base for the year.

 

c)      

Parish/Town

Council Tax Base

Parish/Town

Council Tax Base

Ashwell

901.70

Knebworth

2,018.70

Barkway

438.90

Lilley

178.00

Barley

338.20

Offley

616.30

Bygrave

129.40

Pirton

702.50

Caldecote and Newnham

56.70

Preston

246.10

Clothall

86.90

Radwell

58.30

Codicote

1,711.30

Reed

160.60

Graveley

175.50

Royston

6,871.60

Great Ashby

2,012.10

Rushden and Wallington

212.10

Hinxworth

162.60

St Ippolyts

948.50

Holwell

160.20

St Pauls Walden

582.10

Ickleford

898.10

Sandon

247.50

Kelshall

80.90

Therfield

267.50

Kimpton

1,062.50

Weston

446.40

Kings Walden

425.00

Wymondley

431.20

 

 

 

 

 

Being the amounts calculated by the Council, in accordance with Regulation 6 of the Regulations, as the amounts of its Council Tax base for the year for dwellings in those parts of its area to which one or more special items relate.

 

 

d)    That it be noted that at this meeting on the 27 February 2025 the Council has calculated the Council Tax requirement for the Council’s own purposes for 2025/26 (excluding Parish precepts) as £13,612,944. As detailed in 2.2 (e) below the sum of special items is £1,522,848 and hence the total Council Tax requirement (including Parish precepts) is £15,135,792.

 

(2)   That the following amounts be now calculated by the Council for 2025/2026 in accordance with Sections 31A, 31B and 34 to 36 of the Local Government and Finance Act 1992 (the Act):-

 

a)

£82,806,829

being the aggregate of the amounts which the Council estimates for the items set out in Section 31A(2)(a) to (f) of the Act.

 

b)

£67,671,037

being the aggregate of the amounts which the Council estimates for the items set out in Section 31A(3) (a) to (d) of the Act.

 

c)

£15,135,792

being the amount by which the aggregate at (a) above exceeds the aggregate at (b) above, calculated by the Council, in accordance with Section 31A(4) of the Act, as its Council Tax requirement for the year.

 

d)

£297.74

being the amount at (c) above divided by the amount at 2.1(a) above calculated by the Council in accordance with Section 31B(1) as the basic amount of its Council Tax for the year.

 

e)

£1,522,848

being the aggregate amount of all special items referred to in Section 34(1) of the Act.

 

f)

£267.78

 

being the amount at (d) above less the result given by dividing the amount at (e) above by the amount at 2.1(a) above, calculated by the Council, in accordance with Section 34(2) of the Act, as the basic amount of its Council Tax for the year for dwellings in those parts of its area to which no special item relates.

 

g)       

 

Parish/Town

Basic  ...  view the full decision text for item 98

Minutes:

Audio recording - 3 hours 37 minutes 3 seconds

 

The Service Director – Resources presented the report ‘Council Tax Resolution 2024/25’ and advised that:

 

·       The Council was required to incorporate the various other elements of the Council Tax precepts to set the overall Council Tax bills for the district.

·       As there would be an increase to the forecast spend for 2025/26 this had resulted in a change to the figures in recommendations 2.2 (a) and (b)’

 

Councillor Ian Albert proposed and Councillor Daniel Allen seconded the amended recommendations and, the outcome of the recorded vote was:

 

VOTE TOTALS:

 

YES                 :           37

ABSTAIN        :           3

NO                   :           1

TOTAL            :           41

 

THE INDIVIDUAL RESULTS WERE AS FOLLOWS:

 

Cllr Ian Albert                                      YES

Cllr Amy Allen                                     YES

Cllr Daniel Allen                                  YES

Cllr David Barnard                              NO

Cllr Matt Barnes                                  YES

Cllr Tina Bhartwas                              YES

Cllr Clare Billing                                  YES

Cllr Sadie Billing                                 YES

Cllr Ruth Brown                                  YES

Cllr Val Bryant                                     YES

 Cllr Rhona Cameron                          YES

Cllr David  Chalmers                           YES

Cllr Jon Clayden                                 YES

Cllr Mick Debenham                           YES

Cllr Elizabeth Dennis                          YES

Cllr Emma Fernandes                         YES

Cllr Joe Graziano                                ABSTAIN

Cllr Sarah Lucas                                 YES

Cllr Keith Hoskins                               YES

Cllr Steve Jarvis                                  YES

Cllr Tim Johnson                                 YES

Cllr Chris Lucas                                  YES

Cllr Ian Mantle                                     YES

Cllr Nigel Mason                                 YES

Cllr Bryony May                                  YES

Cllr Caroline McDonnell                      YES

Cllr Ralph Muncer                               ABSTAIN

Cllr Louise Peace                               YES

Cllr Vijaiya Poopalasingham              YES

Cllr Sean Prendergast                        YES

Cllr Martin Prescott                               

Cllr Emma Rowe                                 YES

Cllr Claire Strong                                ABSTAIN

Cllr Tamsin Thomas           

Cllr Tom Tyson                                   YES

Cllr Paul Ward                                     YES

Cllr Laura Williams                              YES

Cllr Alistair Willoughby                        YES

Cllr Stewart Willoughby                      YES

Cllr Claire Winchester                         YES

Cllr Dave Winstanley                          YES

Cllr Donna Wright                               YES

Cllr Daniel Wright-Mason                    YES

 

RESOLVED: That Council:

 

(1)   Noted that at its meeting on 23 January 2025 the Council Tax Setting Committee confirmed the amount 50,836.30 as its Council Tax base for the year 2025/2026 in accordance with regulation 3 of the Local Authorities (Calculation of Council Tax Base) Regulations 2012 (the Regulations).

 

b)    50,836.30 being the amount calculated by the Council, in accordance with Regulation 3 of the Regulations, as its Council Tax base for the year.

 

c)      

Parish/Town

Council Tax Base

Parish/Town

Council Tax Base

Ashwell

901.70

Knebworth

2,018.70

Barkway

438.90

Lilley

178.00

Barley

338.20

Offley

616.30

Bygrave

129.40

Pirton

702.50

Caldecote and Newnham

56.70

Preston

246.10

Clothall

86.90

Radwell

58.30

Codicote

1,711.30

Reed

160.60

Graveley

175.50

Royston

6,871.60

Great Ashby

2,012.10

Rushden and Wallington

212.10

Hinxworth

162.60

St Ippolyts

948.50

Holwell

160.20

St Pauls Walden

582.10

Ickleford

898.10

Sandon

247.50

Kelshall

80.90

Therfield

267.50

Kimpton

1,062.50

Weston

446.40

Kings Walden

425.00

Wymondley

431.20

 

 

 

 

 

Being the amounts calculated by the Council, in accordance with Regulation 6 of the Regulations, as the amounts of its Council Tax base for the year for dwellings in those parts of its area to which one or more special items relate.

 

 

d)    That it be noted that at this meeting on the 27 February 2025 the Council has calculated the Council  ...  view the full minutes text for item 98