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City of London: 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.

City of London Corporation: City corporation (unitary), England, London; part of the GLA combined authority. GOV.UK lists it as a unitary council. ONS code E09000001.

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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 City of London for 2026–27: £1,112.38 of a £1,329.56 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 City of London reported it to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in England.

City of London: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
Service	Budget
Education services	£5.6 million
Highways and transport services	−£1.8 million
Children's social care	£7.2 million
Adult social care	£8.5 million
Public health	£1.9 million
Housing services (general fund only)	£9.5 million
Cultural and related services	£56.3 million
Environmental and regulatory services	£26.1 million
Planning and development services	£12.4 million
Police services	£227.8 million
Fire and rescue services	none budgeted
Central services	£13.4 million
Other services	£12.4 million
Total service expenditure	£379.2 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).

City of London in numbers

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

Total population: 15,111 people 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMid-year estimate of the total number of people
Median age: 33 years 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMedian age of people
Gross disposable household income per head: £109,153 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage income per person (£) after taxes and direct benefits
Children in relative poverty after housing costs: 15.0% 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: 1.2% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsPercentage of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming unemployment-related benefits
Average house price: £710,652 July 2026 · HM Land RegistryAverage monthly price of a property (£)
Greenhouse gas emissions: 36.0 tCO2e per capita 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) per capita
Gigabit capable broadband: 82.6% 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: 443.4 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: 23,390 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

125 seats in 2026. Run by: independents, with a majority. Open Council Data (public domain).

Councillors by party: Independent / Other 107, Temple and Farringdon Together 11, Labour Party 7.

Next scheduled council election: 21 March 2029.

All 125 councillors, by ward

Anett Rideg (Independent / Other) — Aldersgate
Christopher Makin (Alderman) (Independent / Other) — Aldersgate
Deborah Oliver (Independent / Other) — Aldersgate
Helen Fentimen (Labour Party) — Aldersgate
Naresh Sonpar (Independent / Other) — Aldersgate
Sandra Jenner (Labour Party) — Aldersgate
Steve Goodman (Labour Party) — Aldersgate
Andrien Meyers, Deputy (Independent / Other) — Aldgate
David Sales (Independent / Other) — Aldgate
Lesley Cole (Independent / Other) — Aldgate
Mandeep Thandi (Independent / Other) — Aldgate
Sheriff Susan Langley (Alderwoman) (Independent / Other) — Aldgate
Tim McNally (Independent / Other) — Aldgate
Leyla Boulton (Independent / Other) — Bassishaw
Madush Gupta, Deputy (Independent / Other) — Bassishaw
Timothy Hailes (Alderman) (Independent / Other) — Bassishaw
Melissa Collett (Independent / Other) — Billingsgate
Nighat Qureishi, Deputy (Independent / Other) — Billingsgate
Sheriff Bronek Masojada (Alderman) (Independent / Other) — Billingsgate
Benjamin Murphy (Independent / Other) — Bishopsgate
Karina Dostalova (Independent / Other) — Bishopsgate
Kawsar Zaman (Alderman) (Independent / Other) — Bishopsgate
Shravan Joshi (Independent / Other) — Bishopsgate
Simon Burrows (Independent / Other) — Bishopsgate
Simon Duckworth (Independent / Other) — Bishopsgate
Tom Sleigh, Deputy (Independent / Other) — Bishopsgate
Dr Giles Shilson (Independent / Other) — Bread Street
Sir William Russell (Alderman) (Independent / Other) — Bread Street
The Honourable Emily Wedgwood Benn, Deputy (Independent / Other) — Bread Street
Hugh Selka (Independent / Other) — Bridge and Bridge Without
Keith Bottomley, Deputy (Independent / Other) — Bridge and Bridge Without
Tim Levene (Alderman) (Independent / Other) — Bridge and Bridge Without
Antony Manchester (Independent / Other) — Broad Street
Christopher Hayward, Deputy (Independent / Other) — Broad Street
Elizabeth Corrin (Independent / Other) — Broad Street
Michael Mainelli (Alderman) (Independent / Other) — Broad Street
Christopher Boden, Deputy (Independent / Other) — Candlewick
Emma Edhem (Alderman) (Independent / Other) — Candlewick
James St John Davies (Independent / Other) — Candlewick
Bethany Coombs, Deputy (Independent / Other) — Castle Baynard
Helen Ladele (Independent / Other) — Castle Baynard
Josephine Hayes (Independent / Other) — Castle Baynard
Leyla Ostovar (Independent / Other) — Castle Baynard
Martha Grekos (Alderwoman) (Independent / Other) — Castle Baynard
Stephanie Steeden (Independent / Other) — Castle Baynard
Susan Farrington (Independent / Other) — Castle Baynard
Tana Adkin (Independent / Other) — Castle Baynard
Vasiliki Manta (Independent / Other) — Castle Baynard
Alastair Moss, Deputy (Independent / Other) — Cheap
Nicholas Bensted-Smith (Independent / Other) — Cheap
Robert Hughes-Penney (Alderman) (Independent / Other) — Cheap
Tijs Broeke (Independent / Other) — Cheap
Dawn Wright, Deputy (Independent / Other) — Coleman Street
Philip Kelvin (Independent / Other) — Coleman Street
Shahnan Bakth (Independent / Other) — Coleman Street
Sir Peter Estlin (Alderman) (Independent / Other) — Coleman Street
Sushil Saluja (Independent / Other) — Coleman Street
Alexander Barr (Alderman) (Independent / Other) — Cordwainer
Amy Horscroft (Independent / Other) — Cordwainer
Jamel Banda (Independent / Other) — Cordwainer
Sir Michael Snyder, Deputy (Independent / Other) — Cordwainer
Joanna Abeyie (Independent / Other) — Cornhill
Peter Dunphy, Deputy (Independent / Other) — Cornhill
Robert Howard (Alderman) (Independent / Other) — Cornhill
Tessa Marchington (Independent / Other) — Cornhill
Adam Hogg (Independent / Other) — Cripplegate
Anne Corbett, Deputy (Labour Party) — Cripplegate
Ceri Wilkins, Deputy (Independent / Other) — Cripplegate
Dawn Frampton (Independent / Other) — Cripplegate
Elizabeth King (Alderwoman) (Independent / Other) — Cripplegate
Gaby Robertshaw (Independent / Other) — Cripplegate
Jacqueline Webster (Labour Party) — Cripplegate
Mercy Haggerty (Labour Party) — Cripplegate
Sarah Gillinson (Labour Party) — Cripplegate
Alison Gowman (Alderman) (Independent / Other) — Dowgate
Henry Pollard, Deputy (Independent / Other) — Dowgate
Mark Wheatley (Independent / Other) — Dowgate
Ann Holmes, Deputy (Independent / Other) — Farringdon Within
Brendan Barns (Independent / Other) — Farringdon Within
David Williams (Independent / Other) — Farringdon Within
Florence Keelson-Anfu (Independent / Other) — Farringdon Within
Fraser Peck (Independent / Other) — Farringdon Within
John Edwards, Deputy (Independent / Other) — Farringdon Within
John Foley (Independent / Other) — Farringdon Within
Matthew Bell (Independent / Other) — Farringdon Within
Vincent Keaveny (Alderman) (Independent / Other) — Farringdon Within
Edward Lord (Temple and Farringdon Together) — Farringdon Without
George Abrahams (Temple and Farringdon Together) — Farringdon Without
Gregory Jones (Alderman) (Temple and Farringdon Together) — Farringdon Without
Gregory Lawrence (Temple and Farringdon Together) — Farringdon Without
Oliver Sells, Deputy (Temple and Farringdon Together) — Farringdon Without
Paul Martinelli, Deputy (Temple and Farringdon Together) — Farringdon Without
Ruby Sayed (Temple and Farringdon Together) — Farringdon Without
Stuart Thompson (Temple and Farringdon Together) — Farringdon Without
Susanne Ornsby (Temple and Farringdon Together) — Farringdon Without
Wendy Mead (Temple and Farringdon Together) — Farringdon Without
William Upton (Temple and Farringdon Together) — Farringdon Without
Matthew Waters (Independent / Other) — Langbourn
Philip Woodhouse (Independent / Other) — Langbourn
Simon Pryke (Alderman) (Independent / Other) — Langbourn
Timothy Butcher, Deputy (Independent / Other) — Langbourn
Anthony Fitzpatrick (Independent / Other) — Lime Street
Dominic Christian (Independent / Other) — Lime Street
Henry Colthurst, Deputy (Independent / Other) — Lime Street
Irem Yerdelen (Independent / Other) — Lime Street
Sir Charles Bowman (Alderman) (Independent / Other) — Lime Street
Jason Pritchard (Independent / Other) — Portsoken
John Fletcher, Deputy (Independent / Other) — Portsoken
Munsur Ali (Independent / Other) — Portsoken
Prem Goyal (Alderman) (Independent / Other) — Portsoken
Samapti Bagchi (Independent / Other) — Portsoken
Alastair King (Alderman) (Independent / Other) — Queenhithe
Caroline Haines, Deputy (Independent / Other) — Queenhithe
Sophia Mooney (Independent / Other) — Queenhithe
Aaron D'Souza (Independent / Other) — Tower
James Tumbridge (Independent / Other) — Tower
Jason Groves (Independent / Other) — Tower
Marianne Fredericks, Deputy (Independent / Other) — Tower
Sir Nicholas Lyons (Alderman) (Independent / Other) — Tower
Jaspreet Hodgson, Deputy (Independent / Other) — Vintry
Sir Andrew Parmley (Alderman) (Independent / Other) — Vintry
Stephen Hodgson (Independent / Other) — Vintry
Alethea Silk (Independent / Other) — Walbrook
James Thomson, Deputy (Independent / Other) — Walbrook
Jeanette Newman (Alderwoman) (Independent / Other) — Walbrook

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.

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