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Broxtowe: 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.

Broxtowe Borough Council: Non-metropolitan district (lower tier), England, East Midlands; within the county of NTT. GOV.UK lists it as a district council, within Nottinghamshire County Council. ONS code E07000172.

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 Broxtowe for 2026–27: £199.34 of a £2,618.21 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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Changes to schools in this area recorded by the Department for Education Updated automatically

No school here is currently recorded as proposed to open or close.

In the last twelve months: 2 opened (1 new provision, 1 academy converter), 1 closed (1 academy converter)

St John's CofE Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 30 June 2026
Hemlock Stone School — open; reason recorded: new provision, 30 March 2026
St John's CofE Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 July 2026

Get Information about Schools, DfE’s register of every school in England, refreshed daily (Open Government Licence). The register’s own reason is shown: most closures and openings are a school becoming an academy, which changes who runs it, not whether it is there.

What the council plans to spend, 2026–27

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

Broxtowe: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
Service	Budget
Education services	none budgeted
Highways and transport services	£171,000
Children's social care	none budgeted
Adult social care	none budgeted
Public health	none budgeted
Housing services (general fund only)	£1.8 million
Cultural and related services	£2.1 million
Environmental and regulatory services	£4.4 million
Planning and development services	£1.8 million
Police services	none budgeted
Fire and rescue services	none budgeted
Central services	£3.5 million
Other services	£697,000
Total service expenditure	£14.5 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).

Broxtowe in numbers

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

Total population: 114,565 people 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMid-year estimate of the total number of people
Median age: 42 years 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMedian age of people
Gross disposable household income per head: £22,598 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage income per person (£) after taxes and direct benefits
Gross median weekly pay: £606 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsGross median weekly pay based on where people live (£)
Children in relative poverty after housing costs: 19.7% 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: 2.8% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsPercentage of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming unemployment-related benefits
Average house price: £252,624 July 2026 · HM Land RegistryAverage monthly price of a property (£)
Housing affordability ratio (residence-based): 6.6 affordability ratio 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsRatio of median house price to median gross annual residence-based earnings
Greenhouse gas emissions: 5.2 tCO2e per capita 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) per capita
Gigabit capable broadband: 95.7% 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: 141.4 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: 3,605 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

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

Councillors by party: Broxtowe Alliance 19, Conservative and Unionist 10, Labour Party 7, Broxtowe Independent Group 5, Liberal Democrats 3.

Next scheduled council election: 6 May 2027.

All 44 councillors, by ward

Helen Faccio (Labour Party) — Attenborough & Chilwell East
Pauline Smith (Broxtowe Alliance) — Attenborough & Chilwell East
Tyler Marsh (Broxtowe Alliance) — Attenborough & Chilwell East
Don Pringle (Conservative and Unionist) — Awsworth, Cossall & Trowell
Lydia Ball (Conservative and Unionist) — Awsworth, Cossall & Trowell
Gabrielle Bunn (Broxtowe Alliance) — Beeston Central
Vanessa Smith (Broxtowe Alliance) — Beeston Central
Barbara Carr (Broxtowe Independent Group) — Beeston North
Stephen Carr (Broxtowe Independent Group) — Beeston North
Sarah Webb (Broxtowe Alliance) — Beeston Rylands
Shaun Dannheimer (Broxtowe Alliance) — Beeston Rylands
Ellie Winfield (Labour Party) — Beeston West
Greg Marshall (Broxtowe Alliance) — Beeston West
Andrew Kingdon (Liberal Democrats) — Bramcote
David Watts (Liberal Democrats) — Bramcote
Hannah Land (Liberal Democrats) — Bramcote
Elizabeth Williamson (Broxtowe Independent Group) — Brinsley
Colin Tideswell (Broxtowe Alliance) — Chilwell West
Helen Skinner (Broxtowe Alliance) — Chilwell West
Stephen Jeremiah (Broxtowe Alliance) — Chilwell West
Robert Bullock (Broxtowe Alliance) — Eastwood Hall
Milan Radulovic (Broxtowe Alliance) — Eastwood Hilltop
Susan Bagshaw (Labour Party) — Eastwood Hilltop
David Bagshaw (Labour Party) — Eastwood St Mary's
Ken Woodhead (Broxtowe Alliance) — Eastwood St Mary's
Adam Stockwell (Conservative and Unionist) — Greasley
Hannah Crosby (Conservative and Unionist) — Greasley
Michael Brown (Conservative and Unionist) — Greasley
Andy Cooper (Labour Party) — Kimberley
Chris Carr (Broxtowe Alliance) — Kimberley
Will Mee (Labour Party) — Kimberley
Judith Couch (Conservative and Unionist) — Nuthall East & Strelley
Philip Owen (Conservative and Unionist) — Nuthall East & Strelley
Donna MacRae (Broxtowe Independent Group) — Stapleford North
Richard MacRae (Broxtowe Independent Group) — Stapleford North
Katherine Harlow (Broxtowe Alliance) — Stapleford South East
Sarah Camplin (Broxtowe Alliance) — Stapleford South East
John McGrath (Broxtowe Alliance) — Stapleford South West
Sue Paterson (Broxtowe Alliance) — Stapleford South West
Halimah Khaled (Conservative and Unionist) — Toton & Chilwell Meadows
Stephanie Kerry (Conservative and Unionist) — Toton & Chilwell Meadows
Teresa Cullen (Broxtowe Alliance) — Toton & Chilwell Meadows
Jill Owen (Conservative and Unionist) — Watnall & Nuthall West
Peter Bales (Labour Party) — Watnall & Nuthall West

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.

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