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Castle Point: 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.
Castle Point Borough Council: Non-metropolitan district (lower tier), England, East of England; within the county of ESS. GOV.UK lists it as a district council, within Essex County Council.
Do it online
- Household waste collection: Providing information
- Household waste collection: Reporting
- Bulky household waste collections: Applications for service
- Household garden waste: Providing information
- Recycling bags and containers: Providing information
- Flytipping: Reporting
- Noise pollution: Reporting
- Council tax annual notification: Providing information
- Council tax annual notification: Collecting revenue
- Council tax discount: Applications for service
- Council tax benefit new claim: Applications for service
- Housing benefit new claim: Providing information
- Electoral register: Providing information
- Electoral register: Applications for service
- Planning decision notices: Providing information
- Councillors directory: Providing information
- Complaints procedure: Providing information
Housing
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Transport
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Council tax
Band D set by Castle Point for 2026–27: £298.80 of a £2,318.63 total bill in the area.
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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: 1 opened (1 fresh start), 1 closed (1 fresh start)
- The Cornelius Vermuyden School (secondary) — closed; reason recorded: fresh start, 31 May 2026
- The Cornelius Vermuyden School (secondary) — open; reason recorded: fresh start, 1 June 2026
What the council plans to spend, 2026–27
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s table has no figures for Castle Point for 2026–27: “RA return not received in time for publication.” The table
Castle Point in numbers
- Total population
- 90,581 people
- Median age
- 46 years
- Gross disposable household income per head
- £26,682
- Gross median weekly pay
- £712
- Children in relative poverty after housing costs
- 24.4%
- Claimant Count
- 2.5%
- Average house price
- £356,579
- Housing affordability ratio (residence-based)
- 8.6 affordability ratio
- Greenhouse gas emissions
- 3.2 tCO2e per capita
- Gigabit capable broadband
- 89.2%
- Public electric vehicle chargers
- 42.0 per 100,000 population
- Active businesses
- 3,620 number of enterprises
Who runs the council
39 seats in 2026. Run by: a coalition or arrangement of CIIP and PIP.
Councillors by party: The People's Independent Party 24, Canvey Island Independent Party 14, Reform UK 1.
Next scheduled council election: 4 May 2028.
All 39 councillors, by ward
- Diana Jones (The People's Independent Party) — Appleton
- Lorraine Larman (The People's Independent Party) — Appleton
- Lynsey McCarthy-Calvert (The People's Independent Party) — Appleton
- Jamie Huntman (Canvey Island Independent Party) — Canvey Island Central
- Lorraine Breading (Canvey Island Independent Party) — Canvey Island Central
- Peter May (Canvey Island Independent Party) — Canvey Island Central
- Carole Sach (Canvey Island Independent Party) — Canvey Island East
- Grace Watson (Canvey Island Independent Party) — Canvey Island East
- Susan Brooke (Canvey Island Independent Party) — Canvey Island East
- Dave Blackwell (Canvey Island Independent Party) — Canvey Island North
- Michael Fuller (Canvey Island Independent Party) — Canvey Island North
- Nick Harvey (Canvey Island Independent Party) — Canvey Island North
- Barry Campagna (Canvey Island Independent Party) — Canvey Island South
- Barry Palmer (Canvey Island Independent Party) — Canvey Island South
- Janice Payne (Canvey Island Independent Party) — Canvey Island South
- David Thomas (Canvey Island Independent Party) — Canvey Island Winter Gardens
- Graham Withers (Canvey Island Independent Party) — Canvey Island Winter Gardens
- Reece Langley (Reform UK) — Canvey Island Winter Gardens
- Aimme Harbinson (The People's Independent Party) — Hadleigh St James
- Duncan Macpherson (The People's Independent Party) — Hadleigh St James
- Kate Knott (The People's Independent Party) — Hadleigh St James
- Dean Silk (The People's Independent Party) — St George's
- Nanine Pachy (The People's Independent Party) — St George's
- Nicola Benson (The People's Independent Party) — St George's
- Rob Lillis (The People's Independent Party) — St Mary's
- Russell Savage (The People's Independent Party) — St Mary's
- Sharon Ainsley (The People's Independent Party) — St Mary's
- John Knott (The People's Independent Party) — St Michael's
- Timothy Copsey (The People's Independent Party) — St Michael's
- Warren Gibson (The People's Independent Party) — St Michael's
- Benn Wimbledon (The People's Independent Party) — Tarpots
- Kieron Bowker (The People's Independent Party) — Tarpots
- Michael Dearson (The People's Independent Party) — Tarpots
- Gareth Howlett (The People's Independent Party) — Thundersley North
- Stephen Mountford (The People's Independent Party) — Thundersley North
- Tom Gibson (The People's Independent Party) — Thundersley North
- Allan Edwards (The People's Independent Party) — Thundersley South
- Laurie Dixon (The People's Independent Party) — Thundersley South
- Matthew Cortes (The People's Independent Party) — Thundersley South