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Croydon: 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.

London Borough of Croydon: London borough (unitary), England, London; part of the GLA combined authority. GOV.UK lists it as a unitary council. ONS code E09000008.

Council website · Publication scheme · Disclosure log

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 Croydon for 2026–27: £2,089.40 of a £2,599.91 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 (2 new provision), 2 closed (2 closure)

Arise Academy — closed; reason recorded: closure, 31 July 2026
Bright Minds Creative Academy — closed; reason recorded: closure, 31 July 2026
Maypole School - Melville — open; reason recorded: new provision, 12 March 2026
Oak Bridge School — open; reason recorded: new provision, 15 September 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 Croydon reported it to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in England.

Croydon: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
Service	Budget
Education services	£279.0 million
Highways and transport services	£5.6 million
Children's social care	£153.8 million
Adult social care	£208.3 million
Public health	£30.0 million
Housing services (general fund only)	£79.5 million
Cultural and related services	£10.2 million
Environmental and regulatory services	£46.7 million
Planning and development services	£6.6 million
Police services	none budgeted
Fire and rescue services	none budgeted
Central services	£11.0 million
Other services	£21.0 million
Total service expenditure	£851.7 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).

Croydon in numbers

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

Total population: 409,342 people 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMid-year estimate of the total number of people
Median age: 37 years 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMedian age of people
Gross disposable household income per head: £27,407 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage income per person (£) after taxes and direct benefits
Gross median weekly pay: £736 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsGross median weekly pay based on where people live (£)
Children in relative poverty after housing costs: 30.3% 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: 6.3% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsPercentage of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming unemployment-related benefits
Average house price: £390,041 July 2026 · HM Land RegistryAverage monthly price of a property (£)
Housing affordability ratio (residence-based): 9.6 affordability ratio 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsRatio of median house price to median gross annual residence-based earnings
Female healthy life expectancy: 67.5 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage years expected to be lived in good health for females born in the given year
Male healthy life expectancy: 66.7 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage years expected to be lived in good health for males born in the given year
Greenhouse gas emissions: 2.4 tCO2e per capita 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) per capita
Gigabit capable broadband: 89.9% 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: 153.2 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: 16,385 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

70 seats in 2026. Run by: CON Mayor, with a majority. Open Council Data (public domain).

Councillors by party: Labour Party 30, Conservative and Unionist 28, Green Party (E&W) 8, Liberal Democrats 2, Reform UK 2.

Next scheduled council election: 2 May 2030.

All 70 councillors, by ward

Jeet Bains (Conservative and Unionist) — Addiscombe East
Maddie Henson (Labour Party) — Addiscombe East
Nick Beall (Labour Party) — Addiscombe West
Patricia Hay-Justice (Labour Party) — Addiscombe West
Sean Fitzsimons (Labour Party) — Addiscombe West
Ellie Sandover (Labour Party) — Bensham Manor
Humayun Kabir (Labour Party) — Bensham Manor
Mohana Manoharan (Labour Party) — Bensham Manor
Aba Amoah (Labour Party) — Broad Green
Manju Shahul-Hameed (Labour Party) — Broad Green
Tom Bowell (Labour Party) — Broad Green
Ian Parker (Conservative and Unionist) — Coulsdon Town
Luke Shortland (Conservative and Unionist) — Coulsdon Town
Nikhil Thampi (Conservative and Unionist) — Coulsdon Town
Claire Bonham (Liberal Democrats) — Crystal Palace & Upper Norwood
Mark Adderley (Green Party (E&W)) — Crystal Palace & Upper Norwood
Natalie Vesty (Green Party (E&W)) — Crystal Palace & Upper Norwood
Esther Sutton (Green Party (E&W)) — Fairfield
Paul Ainscough (Green Party (E&W)) — Fairfield
Ria Patel (Green Party (E&W)) — Fairfield
Gayle Gander (Conservative and Unionist) — Kenley
Ola Kolade (Conservative and Unionist) — Kenley
Afuah Asantewaa Agyemang (Labour Party) — New Addington North
Kola Agboola (Labour Party) — New Addington North
Adam Kellett (Reform UK) — New Addington South
Scott Holman (Reform UK) — New Addington South
John Wentworth (Labour Party) — Norbury & Pollards Hill
Leila Ben-Hassel (Labour Party) — Norbury & Pollards Hill
Appu Srinivasan (Labour Party) — Norbury Park
Julie Setchfield (Labour Party) — Norbury Park
Gill Hickson (Liberal Democrats) — Old Coulsdon
Margaret Bird (Conservative and Unionist) — Old Coulsdon
Andrew Price (Conservative and Unionist) — Park Hill & Whitgift
James Hillam (Conservative and Unionist) — Purley & Woodcote
Samir Dwesar (Conservative and Unionist) — Purley & Woodcote
Simon Brew (Conservative and Unionist) — Purley & Woodcote
Alasdair Stewart (Conservative and Unionist) — Purley Oaks & Riddlesdown
Endri Llabuti (Conservative and Unionist) — Purley Oaks & Riddlesdown
Helen Redfern (Conservative and Unionist) — Sanderstead
Lynne Hale (Conservative and Unionist) — Sanderstead
Yvette Hopley (Conservative and Unionist) — Sanderstead
Catherine Wilson (Labour Party) — Selhurst
Mohammed Islam (Labour Party) — Selhurst
Joseph Lee (Conservative and Unionist) — Selsdon & Addington Village
Robert Ward (Conservative and Unionist) — Selsdon & Addington Village
Andy Stranack (Conservative and Unionist) — Selsdon Vale & Forestdale
Jack Barwell (Conservative and Unionist) — Selsdon Vale & Forestdale
Mark Johnson (Conservative and Unionist) — Shirley North
Richard Chatterjee (Conservative and Unionist) — Shirley North
Sue Bennett (Conservative and Unionist) — Shirley North
Jason Cummings (Conservative and Unionist) — Shirley South
Scott Roche (Conservative and Unionist) — Shirley South
Danielle Denton (Conservative and Unionist) — South Croydon
Matthew Dormer (Conservative and Unionist) — South Croydon
Michael Neal (Conservative and Unionist) — South Croydon
Martyn Post (Green Party (E&W)) — South Norwood
Melanie Felten (Labour Party) — South Norwood
Tracey Hague (Green Party (E&W)) — South Norwood
Ben Taylor (Labour Party) — Thornton Heath
Jose Fernandes (Labour Party) — Thornton Heath
Vicky Newton (Labour Party) — Thornton Heath
Ellily Ponnuthurai (Labour Party) — Waddon
Rowenna Davis (Labour Party) — Waddon
Sam Attwater (Labour Party) — Waddon
Janet Campbell (Labour Party) — West Thornton
Rym Daoud (Labour Party) — West Thornton
Stuart King (Labour Party) — West Thornton
Amy Foster (Labour Party) — Woodside
Brigitte Graham (Labour Party) — Woodside
Laura Bradnam (Green Party (E&W)) — Woodside

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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