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Great Yarmouth: 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.
Great Yarmouth Borough Council: Non-metropolitan district (lower tier), England, East of England; within the county of NFK. GOV.UK lists it as a district council, within Norfolk 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
- Parking permits: Providing information
- 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 Great Yarmouth for 2026–27: £198.25 of a £2,414.41 total bill in the area.
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Environment
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Education
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What the council plans to spend, 2026–27
| Service | Budget |
|---|---|
| Education services | none budgeted |
| Highways and transport services | −£714,000 |
| Children's social care | none budgeted |
| Adult social care | none budgeted |
| Public health | none budgeted |
| Housing services (general fund only) | £4.0 million |
| Cultural and related services | £2.6 million |
| Environmental and regulatory services | £7.6 million |
| Planning and development services | £1.8 million |
| Police services | none budgeted |
| Fire and rescue services | none budgeted |
| Central services | £3.3 million |
| Other services | £1.8 million |
| Total service expenditure | £20.5 million |
Life in Great Yarmouth: the official facts
- People living here
- 100,957 people
- Typical age
- 46 years
- Money to live on, per person, per year
- £20,544
- Typical weekly pay, before tax
- £565
- Children growing up in poverty
- 37.2%
- People claiming unemployment-related benefits
- 4.7%
- Average price of a home
- £204,630
- How many years of pay a home costs
- 6.3 times yearly pay
- Greenhouse gases, per person
- 3.5 tonnes per person
- Homes and businesses that can get the fastest broadband
- 87.7%
- Public chargers for electric cars
- 210.9 per 100,000 people
- Businesses trading here
- 2,925 businesses
Who runs the council
39 seats in 2026. Run by: Conservatives, as a minority administration.
Councillors by party: Conservative and Unionist 18, Labour Party 18, Independent / Other 2, Great Yarmouth First 1.
Next scheduled council election: 6 May 2027.
All 39 councillors, by ward
- Carl Smith (Conservative and Unionist) — Bradwell North
- Daniel Candon (Conservative and Unionist) — Bradwell North
- Graham Plant (Conservative and Unionist) — Bradwell North
- Antony Capewell (Labour Party) — Bradwell South and Hopton
- Carl Annison (Conservative and Unionist) — Bradwell South and Hopton
- Katy Stenhouse (Conservative and Unionist) — Bradwell South and Hopton
- Gary Boyd (Conservative and Unionist) — Caister North
- Penny Carpenter (Conservative and Unionist) — Caister North
- Brian Lawn (Conservative and Unionist) — Caister South
- Jon Wedon (Great Yarmouth First) — Caister South
- Cathy Cordiner-Achenbach (Labour Party) — Central and Northgate
- Jade Martin (Labour Party) — Central and Northgate
- James McCluskey (Labour Party) — Central and Northgate
- Bernard Williamson (Labour Party) — Claydon
- Carol Borg (Labour Party) — Claydon
- Jeanette McMullen (Labour Party) — Claydon
- James Bensly (Conservative and Unionist) — East Flegg
- Noel Galer (Conservative and Unionist) — East Flegg
- Adrian Thompson (Independent / Other) — Fleggburgh
- Emma Flaxman-Taylor (Conservative and Unionist) — Gorleston
- Paul Wells (Conservative and Unionist) — Gorleston
- Graham Carpenter (Conservative and Unionist) — Lothingland
- Ivan Murray-Smith (Conservative and Unionist) — Lothingland
- Alison Green (Labour Party) — Magdalen
- Brian Pilkington (Labour Party) — Magdalen
- Trevor Wainwright (Labour Party) — Magdalen
- Kerry Robinson-Payne (Labour Party) — Nelson
- Michael Jeal (Labour Party) — Nelson
- Tony Wright (Labour Party) — Nelson
- Geoffrey Freeman (Conservative and Unionist) — Ormesby
- Justin Rundle (Independent / Other) — Ormesby
- Jennifer Newcombe (Labour Party) — Southtown and Cobholm
- Paula Waters-Bunn (Labour Party) — Southtown and Cobholm
- Barbara Wright (Labour Party) — St Andrews
- Ronald Upton (Labour Party) — St Andrews
- Andy Grant (Conservative and Unionist) — West Flegg
- Leslie Mogford (Conservative and Unionist) — West Flegg
- Amy Sharp (Labour Party) — Yarmouth North
- Donna Hammond (Conservative and Unionist) — Yarmouth North