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To Council Tax 2018-19 STROUD DISTRICT YOUR GUIDE TO COUNCIL TAX 2018-19 Stroud District Council | Gloucestershire County Council The Police and Crime Commissioner for Gloucestershire YOUR GUIDE TO COUNCIL TAX Contents Stroud District Council Police and Crime Commissioner 03 Plans for the year ahead 10 Working with the local community helps reduce crime and makes you feel safe Gloucestershire County Council 04 Providing value for money and Spending plans prioritising our services 11 Details of district, county and police spending plans for 2018-19 Council tax and benefits 06 How much you pay, discounts, exemptions and other information Your council tax in numbers This is how much the average† home will pay each week, split as follows: £1.61 PARISHES & TOWN COUNCIL Rubbish collection, housing, benefits, planning, sport & leisure £3.88 DISTRICT COUNCIL Crime reduction, safer communities, criminal justice, peace & good order £4.36 POLICE AND CRIME COMMISSIONER Education, social care, fire service, roads, libraries £23.70 COUNTY COUNCIL † Band D Total £33.55 This document comprises part of your council tax demand notice. This booklet can be recycled in your kerbside box. Designed & produced by Now Media, Cheltenham © 2018 Printed on paper from sustainable forests. 02 STROUD DISTRICT COUNCIL Investing in your future RY VE L E I £0 the amount of government grant this year – T T ! L S we are the only council in Gloucestershire to lose E P H L Help us to make your £E all our grant council tax go further £549,000 the amount you and other council — Recycle more – it’s cheaper than taxpayers in Stroud district have to pay to the sending waste to landfill and government next year – more than any other better for the environment. If you council in Gloucestershire flatten cardboard boxes and 12p a week the increase in your council tax plastic bottles, our recycling trucks do less trips and save on fuel (Band D property) for the services we provide. This is a 2.99% increase in our part of your bill — Receive your council tax bill by email - it costs us 63p to send you a We have to save £2.25 million next year. council tax bill by post which we save This means cuts in our workforce, increasing when you sign up to e-billing income targets and introducing car parking — Pay your council tax bill by Direct Debit – it charges to more towns. costs us more to process cash, cheques & standing orders. Switch to Direct Debit – it’s This year, we will quicker too — complete new business units at Littlecombe, — Update your electoral details online every Dursley – providing income and jobs August – we spend £16,000 sending — provide £300,000 on adapting homes for canvassers out to the homes of people who disabled people, £200,000 on warmer home don’t return their household election forms grants and more money to tackle homelessness — Use council services – we offer bulky waste, — support youth groups (£60,000) and provide garden waste, pest control, food hygiene & £300,000 of grants to voluntary and community health & safety courses, all at competitive rates organisations, including to Citizens Advice — Check your recycling calendar online – just — fund site works to create homes and jobs at put your postcode in the `my house’ section to Brimscombe download and print your recycling calendar — provide funding for market town initiatives across the district www.stroud.gov.uk — create cycling and walking routes connecting Cam, Dursley and Uley — bid to connect up the award winning Stonehouse - Improve your credit rating Bowbridge canal to the 2,000 mile national by making sure you’re on network at Saul the electoral roll — provide funding for new homes at affordable Register online at www.gov.uk/ rents across the district register-to-vote or by email at [email protected] From our Housing Revenue Account we will — start a further 19 new council homes – bringing the total number to 245 in the past five years Thank you _ 79% of residents and 70% of — spend £7.8 million on work to modernise our businesses are satisfied with us as a council This booklet can be recycled in your kerbside box. sheltered housing schemes and council homes Printed on paper from sustainable forests. 03 GLOUCESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL Gloucestershire County Council budget 2018-19 Gloucestershire is a great place to live, work and continue to rise, but no change in the number of do business. Most people enjoy a high standard working adults. That means overall, the number of living, with our health and well-being of people who rely on the council is likely to comfortably above the UK average. However, increase. we know there are areas where people need Our vision is to improve the quality of life for more help and support to live the lives they Gloucestershire people and communities, and want, especially our vulnerable adults, families here’s how we will spend taxpayers’ money in and children. the next financial year to help achieve that: Our population is also changing. We expect the number of older people and children to Adult services Children & families £133.172 million £102.974 million (including help for people with learning (including schools, children’s disabilities, older people, vulnerable adults) services, prevention & wellbeing) Public health £24.271 million (ring-fenced grant) Here’s how we plan to spend your money this year The total budget is Business support £413.5 million for 2018-19 £27.917 million Technical & corporate £44.721 million Communities (including cost of & infrastructure funding infrastructure £80.426 million investment) (including highways, libraries, trading standard, fire & rescue, waste) In addition to the budget a further £4.6 million is • £2.6 million for children’s social care anticipated as part of the business rate • £1 million for adult social care retention pilot for 2018-19, which allows us to • £0.53 million for the Highways Local Scheme keep more of the county’s business rates. This • £0.47 million for electric vehicle money will be invested in the following: infrastructure 04 GLOUCESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL Where does most of your money go? Council services currently help 25,000 people in Gloucestershire who have a disability, are vulnerable, or live with an age related disorder. We know more people want to live independently, and we’re using technology like Telecare so people can stay in their own homes. With numbers expected to rise, demand is going to continue to increase. That’s why we need more people to help themselves, so we can What about the roads? be there for those who need us most. We will be investing an extra £2.5 million overall to protect Last year, the council promised an extra £150 vulnerable older people. million for our roads over the next 5 years. That money is being spent on everything from potholes repairs to road safety schemes. Following the Elmbridge roundabout improvements, we will be redesigning Over and Cross Keys roundabouts to help keep our county moving. The council has also put aside £2.74 million to support Highways England’s A417 safety improvements and money for the Highways Local Scheme giving every county councillor £20,000 to spend on improving highways For the full budget visit in their area. With all this work going on, it www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/ means there will be some disruption on our roads. Thank you for your patience – it will be GCCbudget worth it. Are we doing enough to protect our children and young people? Last year, Ofsted told us our children’s services were inadequate and we are determined to improve. The latest feedback from inspectors was that we have addressed many of the issues, but we need to do more. We will be investing an extra £16.3 million to help the most vulnerable children and young people in the county, funding more social workers, as well as services like foster care and adoptions plus a further £2.6 million from the business rate pilot. 05 COUNCIL TAX EXEMPTIONS Discounts Disabled persons reductions Long term empty properties Your bill may be reduced if your home has These are properties which have been unoccupied certain features which are essential, or of major and unfurnished for 6 months or more. No discount importance, to an adult or child with a disability, is awarded. From April 2016, properties which who lives in the property. These features are: have been empty and substantially unfurnished for two years or more, will be charged a 50 per — a room (other than a bathroom, kitchen or toilet) cent premium, increasing the council tax charge to which is used by the disabled person (eg, a room 150 per cent. used for dialysis equipment). Re-arranging rooms used for their normal purpose (eg, a Discounts bedroom on the ground floor) would not qualify If you live alone your bill will be reduced by 25 per — an additional bathroom or kitchen required for cent. If you, or someone living with you fits into one the use of the disabled person of the categories below and there are no other adults living in the property, you could also get a — sufficient floor space for a wheelchair reduction. If you qualify we will treat your property as if it is — full time students, student nurses, apprentices, in the valuation band below. eg, if your property is youth training trainees in band C you will pay the council tax for band B. — 18-19 year old (at or just left school) You can still get a reduction if your property is in band A. — hospital/hospice patient (permanent) — residential care/nursing home resident Second homes — persons over 18 in receipt of child benefit Properties that are furnished but not occupied — severely mentally impaired as anyone’s main home are classed as second homes.
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