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Calderdale: 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.

Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council: Metropolitan district (unitary), England, Yorkshire and The Humber; part of the WYCA combined authority. GOV.UK lists it as a unitary council. ONS code E08000033.

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

We haven't read this council's own publications yet. The council’s website

Transport

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Council tax

Band D set by Calderdale for 2026–27: £2,034.19 of a £2,420.15 total bill in the area. MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027 (Open Government Licence).

We haven't read this council's own publications yet. The council’s website

Environment

The council’s climate-emergency motion, in its own words, 30 January 2019:

“This Council therefore: - Declares a Climate Emergency; - Notes that the Council and Borough are on course to meet their 2020 CO2 reduction target of 40%; - Notes that our current targets are inadequate to respond to the challenge of keeping global temperature rises below 1.”

The council's document is dated 30 January 2019: it shows what the council resolved then, not what it does now. Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council's document (Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council), found through mySociety and Climate Emergency UK, Local authority climate emergency declarations (CC BY 4.0); the sentence was checked word for word on 26 October 2026.

Beyond that document, we haven't read this council's own publications yet. The council’s website

Education

We haven't read this council's own publications yet. The council’s website

Changes to schools in this area recorded by the Department for Education Updated automatically

Cornholme Junior, Infant and Nursery School (primary) — proposed to open; reason recorded: new provision; proposed date 1 September 2027

In the last twelve months: 2 opened (1 new provision, 1 reason not recorded), 1 closed (1 result of amalgamation/merger)

Tuel Lane Infant School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: result of amalgamation/merger, 12 April 2026
Pennine — open; reason recorded: new provision, 13 January 2026
William Henry Smith Specialist College — open, 22 May 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 Calderdale reported it to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in England.

Calderdale: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
Service	Budget
Education services	£186.5 million
Highways and transport services	£7.7 million
Children's social care	£63.7 million
Adult social care	£105.9 million
Public health	£17.2 million
Housing services (general fund only)	£6.2 million
Cultural and related services	£15.3 million
Environmental and regulatory services	£27.1 million
Planning and development services	£6.5 million
Police services	none budgeted
Fire and rescue services	none budgeted
Central services	£13.3 million
Other services	none budgeted
Total service expenditure	£449.3 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).

Life in Calderdale: the official facts

Facts about the people who live here: their pay, homes, health and more, from official statistics. They describe the place, not you, and every council gets the same list. Each shows when it was measured.

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Showing: Calderdale.

People living here: 210,734 people 30 June 2025 · Office for National StatisticsAn official estimate of everyone who lives in the area, in the middle of the year.
Typical age: 42 years 30 June 2025 · Office for National StatisticsHalf the people who live here are younger than this and half are older.
Money to live on, per person, per year: £22,151 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage household income per person after taxes, with benefits added: what people have to spend or save.
Typical weekly pay, before tax: £613 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsFor employees who live here: half earn more than this each week, half earn less.
Children growing up in poverty: 31.1% April 2024 to March 2025 · Department for Work and PensionsThe share of children under 16 in families on low incomes once housing costs are paid.
People claiming unemployment-related benefits: 4.3% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsThe share of people aged 16 to 64 claiming Jobseeker's Allowance or Universal Credit while looking for work.
Average price of a home: £197,651 August 2026 · HM Land RegistryThe average price of a home here in the month shown.
How many years of pay a home costs: 5.3 times yearly pay 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsA typical home's price divided by the typical yearly pay of people who live here.
Years in good health: women: 60.9 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsHow many years a girl born here can expect to live in good health, at current rates.
Years in good health: men: 60.2 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsHow many years a boy born here can expect to live in good health, at current rates.
Greenhouse gases, per person: 4.4 tonnes per person 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroEmissions from the area in a year, shared out per resident, in tonnes of carbon dioxide or its equivalent.
Homes and businesses that can get the fastest broadband: 87.9% 1 January 2026 · OfcomThe share of addresses that can get gigabit broadband (1,000 Mbps).
Public chargers for electric cars: 100.5 per 100,000 people 1 July 2026 · Department for Transport, sourced from ZapmapPublic charging points at all speeds, for every 100,000 people.
Businesses trading here: 8,920 businesses 2024 · Office for National StatisticsBusinesses with sales or staff in the year.

More figures for Calderdale from the ONS

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

This council’s area is covered by West Yorkshire combined authority, with its elected mayor.

54 seats in 2026. Run by: Reform UK, with a majority. Open Council Data (public domain).

Councillors by party: Reform UK 34, Labour Party 8, Green Party (E&W) 7, Independent / Other 2, Liberal Democrats 2, Workers Party of Britain 1.

Next scheduled council election: 6 May 2027.

All 54 councillors, by ward

Darren Commons (Reform UK) — Brighouse
Mark Kimberlin (Reform UK) — Brighouse
Stephen Mycroft (Reform UK) — Brighouse
James Cook (Reform UK) — Elland
Nigel Hatfield (Reform UK) — Elland
Peter Hunt (Reform UK) — Elland
Philip Pringle (Reform UK) — Greetland
Ruth Walker (Reform UK) — Greetland
Thomas Garnett (Reform UK) — Greetland
Jay Shaban (Reform UK) — Halifax Town
Joseph Gibbons (Reform UK) — Halifax Town
Keith Ingle (Reform UK) — Halifax Town
Hannah Mickleburgh-Benn (Green Party (E&W)) — Hebden Bridge & Todmorden East
Margot Puddepha (Green Party (E&W)) — Hebden Bridge & Todmorden East
Sarah Courtney (Labour Party) — Hebden Bridge & Todmorden East
Connor Dent (Reform UK) — Hipperholme & Lightcliffe
Timothy Holden (Reform UK) — Hipperholme & Lightcliffe
Valerie Mycroft (Reform UK) — Hipperholme & Lightcliffe
Andrew Tagg (Reform UK) — Illingworth & Mixenden
Daniel Sutherland (Reform UK) — Illingworth & Mixenden
Nikki Kelly (Reform UK) — Illingworth & Mixenden
Kate Macdonald (Labour Party) — Luddendenfoot
Katie Kimber (Labour Party) — Luddendenfoot
Scott Patient (Labour Party) — Luddendenfoot
Dan Wood (Green Party (E&W)) — Northowram & Shelf
David Banks (Reform UK) — Northowram & Shelf
Martin Hey (Green Party (E&W)) — Northowram & Shelf
Gordon Thorpe (Reform UK) — Ovenden
Paul Dale (Reform UK) — Ovenden
Stephen Hodgson (Reform UK) — Ovenden
Mohammed Fazal (Labour Party) — Park
Osman Khalil (Independent / Other) — Park
Shakir Saghir (Workers Party of Britain) — Park
David Small (Reform UK) — Rastrick
Jackie Wilson (Reform UK) — Rastrick
Simon Briggs (Reform UK) — Rastrick
Alex Greenwood (Reform UK) — Ryburn
Chris Green (Reform UK) — Ryburn
Leah Webster (Independent / Other) — Ryburn
Mederic Payne (Reform UK) — Salterhebble, Southowram & Skircoat Green
Paul Hawkaluk (Reform UK) — Salterhebble, Southowram & Skircoat Green
Stephen Padgett (Reform UK) — Salterhebble, Southowram & Skircoat Green
Adam Wilkinson (Labour Party) — Sowerby Bridge
Andrew Varley (Reform UK) — Sowerby Bridge
Mike Payne (Reform UK) — Sowerby Bridge
Jamie Furlong (Green Party (E&W)) — Todmorden West
Oscar Seville-Leach (Green Party (E&W)) — Todmorden West
Sarah Goodfellow (Green Party (E&W)) — Todmorden West
Ann Kingstone (Labour Party) — Wainhouse
Cathy Featherstone (Reform UK) — Wainhouse
Dave Mendes Da Costa (Labour Party) — Wainhouse
Ashley Evans (Liberal Democrats) — Warley
Chris Wadsworth (Liberal Democrats) — Warley
Irena Corkish (Reform UK) — Warley

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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