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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.

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
ServiceBudget
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 servicesnone 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.

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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Cite this page

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Every council page has the same five headings in the same order. Sources are the council’s own publications and official statistics. Council list: mySociety, UK Local Authorities (CC BY 4.0) and WhatDoTheyKnow authorities (CC BY-SA 4.0); council websites, tiers and service links: GOV.UK (Open Government Licence); codes: ONS Code History Database (Open Government Licence). Corrections: hello@whatsittome.org.