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Bracknell Forest: what’s happening where you live

What the council itself has published on the five things it most shapes for a household: homes, getting about, the bill, the local environment and schools. Each line is quoted from the council’s own document, with the link. This page says what was decided or proposed; it never says whether it was right.

This page is built from official registers only; the council’s own publications have not been read yet, and every line below says so where that leaves a gap.

Bracknell Forest Council: Unitary authority (unitary), England, South East. GOV.UK lists it as a unitary council. ONS code E06000036.

Council website

Do it online

The council’s own service pages as listed by GOV.UK’s Local Links Manager (Open Government Licence), refreshed weekly; the same list of everyday services, in the same order, for every council, in GOV.UK’s wording.

Housing

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Transport

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Council tax

Band D set by Bracknell Forest for 2026–27: £1,781.46 of a £2,264.80 total bill in the area. MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027 (Open Government Licence).

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Environment

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Education

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What the council plans to spend, 2026–27

The budget for each service, as Bracknell Forest reported it to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in England.

Bracknell Forest: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
Service	Budget
Education services	£119.6 million
Highways and transport services	£8.0 million
Children's social care	£34.5 million
Adult social care	£61.1 million
Public health	£6.2 million
Housing services (general fund only)	£4.7 million
Cultural and related services	£4.2 million
Environmental and regulatory services	£17.2 million
Planning and development services	£2.9 million
Police services	none budgeted
Fire and rescue services	none budgeted
Central services	£5.4 million
Other services	none budgeted
Total service expenditure	£263.7 million

Net current expenditure: net of sales, fees and charges; spending funded by the NHS, such as through the Better Care Fund, is excluded.A minus figure means the service’s income is budgeted to be more than its spending. “None budgeted” usually means another body runs that service here. Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Revenue Account Budget 2026 to 2027, individual local authority data (part 1), updated 11 June 2026 (Open Government Licence).

Bracknell Forest in numbers

Official statistics for the whole council area. Each figure is the latest published, with the period it covers.

Total population: 130,806 people 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMid-year estimate of the total number of people
Median age: 39 years 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMedian age of people
Gross disposable household income per head: £29,177 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage income per person (£) after taxes and direct benefits
Gross median weekly pay: £727 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsGross median weekly pay based on where people live (£)
Children in relative poverty after housing costs: 15.3% April 2024 to March 2025 · Department for Work and PensionsPercentage of children aged under 16 living in relative low income families After Housing Costs (AHC)
Claimant Count: 2.6% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsPercentage of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming unemployment-related benefits
Average house price: £395,413 July 2026 · HM Land RegistryAverage monthly price of a property (£)
Housing affordability ratio (residence-based): 9.5 affordability ratio 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsRatio of median house price to median gross annual residence-based earnings
Female healthy life expectancy: 67.0 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage years expected to be lived in good health for females born in the given year
Male healthy life expectancy: 65.2 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage years expected to be lived in good health for males born in the given year
Greenhouse gas emissions: 3.0 tCO2e per capita 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) per capita
Gigabit capable broadband: 97.2% 1 January 2026 · OfcomPercentage of premises that have coverage from a gigabit-capable service (download speeds of 1,000 Mbps or more)
Public electric vehicle chargers: 159.0 per 100,000 population 1 July 2026 · Department for Transport, sourced from ZapmapPublicly available electric vehicle chargers at all speeds per 100,000 people
Active businesses: 4,925 number of enterprises 2024 · Office for National StatisticsBusinesses with turnover or employment in current year

Gathered by the Office for National Statistics in Explore Local Statistics (Open Government Licence), refreshed daily. Some figures aren’t published for every nation, so the list can be shorter outside England.

Who runs the council

41 seats in 2026. Run by: Labour, as a minority administration. Open Council Data (public domain).

Councillors by party: Labour Party 18, Conservative and Unionist 10, Liberal Democrats 7, Independent / Other 4, Green Party (E&W) 2.

Next scheduled council election: 6 May 2027.

All 41 councillors, by ward

Adrian Haffegee (Green Party (E&W)) — Binfield North & Warfield West
John Harrison (Conservative and Unionist) — Binfield North & Warfield West
Sheila Collings (Green Party (E&W)) — Binfield North & Warfield West
Georgia Pickering (Labour Party) — Binfield South & Jennett's Park
Kathryn Neil (Labour Party) — Binfield South & Jennett's Park
Stephen O'Regan (Labour Party) — Binfield South & Jennett's Park
Caroline Egglestone (Independent / Other) — Bullbrook
Iskandar Jefferies (Labour Party) — Bullbrook
Nicholas Robertson (Conservative and Unionist) — Crowthorne
Tina Eberle (Liberal Democrats) — Crowthorne
Tina McKenzie-Boyle (Conservative and Unionist) — Crowthorne
Guy Gillbe (Labour Party) — Easthampstead & Wildridings
Helen Purnell (Labour Party) — Easthampstead & Wildridings
Paul Bidwell (Labour Party) — Easthampstead & Wildridings
Donna Pressland (Labour Party) — Great Hollands
Gerry Webb (Labour Party) — Great Hollands
Mary Temperton (Independent / Other) — Great Hollands
Cath Thompson (Labour Party) — Hanworth
Janet Cochrane (Labour Party) — Hanworth
Jenny Penfold (Labour Party) — Hanworth
Cherise Welch (Independent / Other) — Harmans Water & Crown Wood
Jodie Watts (Labour Party) — Harmans Water & Crown Wood
Peter Frewer (Labour Party) — Harmans Water & Crown Wood
Nick Allen (Conservative and Unionist) — Owlsmoor & College Town
Philip Thompson (Liberal Democrats) — Owlsmoor & College Town
Ray Mossom (Conservative and Unionist) — Owlsmoor & College Town
Michael Karim (Labour Party) — Priestwood & Garth
Ryan Frost (Labour Party) — Priestwood & Garth
Tricia Brown (Labour Party) — Priestwood & Garth
Christoph Eberle (Liberal Democrats) — Sandhurst
Mike Forster (Liberal Democrats) — Sandhurst
Nazar Zahuruddin (Liberal Democrats) — Sandhurst
Patrick Smith (Liberal Democrats) — Swinley Forest
Sophie Forster (Liberal Democrats) — Swinley Forest
Megan Wright (Labour Party) — Town Centre & The Parks
Roy Bailey (Independent / Other) — Town Centre & The Parks
Gareth Barnard (Conservative and Unionist) — Whitegrove
Robert McLean (Conservative and Unionist) — Whitegrove
Dorothy Hayes (Conservative and Unionist) — Winkfield & Warfield East
Moira Gaw (Conservative and Unionist) — Winkfield & Warfield East
Tony Virgo (Conservative and Unionist) — Winkfield & Warfield East

Each councillor’s register of interests is on the council’s own website; we have not yet located the page. Councillors from Open Council Data as recorded after the May 2026 elections; a by-election since then may have changed one seat. Attendance and allowances are not shown.

This council’s meeting papers are not yet read automatically, so decisions and motions are not listed here; they are on the council’s website.

Write to your councillors → WriteToThem (mySociety) finds them from your postcode; nothing is sent through this site.

Cite this page

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