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Harborough: 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.

Harborough District Council: Non-metropolitan district (lower tier), England, East Midlands; within the county of LEC. GOV.UK lists it as a district council, within Leicestershire County Council. ONS code E07000131.

Council website

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

We haven't read this council's own publications yet. The council’s website

Transport

We haven't read this council's own publications yet. The council’s website

Council tax

Band D set by Harborough for 2026–27: £174.13 of a £2,389.87 total bill in the area. MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027 (Open Government Licence).

We haven't read this council's own publications yet. The council’s website

Environment

The council’s climate-emergency motion, in its own words, 24 June 2019:

“HDC must therefore declare an immediate Climate Emergency and in addition set up a cross party working group to explore positive opportunities to make the improvements needed for now and for generations to come.”

The council's document is dated 24 June 2019: it shows what the council resolved then, not what it does now. Harborough District Council's document (Harborough District Council), found through mySociety and Climate Emergency UK, Local authority climate emergency declarations (CC BY 4.0); the sentence was checked word for word on 26 October 2026.

Beyond that document, we haven't read this council's own publications yet. The council’s website

Education

We haven't read this council's own publications yet. The council’s website

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 new provision), 0 closed

White Stacks Outdoor Learning Centre — open; reason recorded: new provision, 22 May 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 Harborough reported it to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in England.

Harborough: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
Service	Budget
Education services	none budgeted
Highways and transport services	−£715,000
Children's social care	none budgeted
Adult social care	£260,000
Public health	£12,000
Housing services (general fund only)	£1.7 million
Cultural and related services	£3.1 million
Environmental and regulatory services	£8.1 million
Planning and development services	£2.3 million
Police services	none budgeted
Fire and rescue services	none budgeted
Central services	£9.4 million
Other services	none budgeted
Total service expenditure	£24.2 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).

Life in Harborough: the official facts

Facts about the people who live here: their pay, homes, health and more, from official statistics. They describe the place, not you, and every council gets the same list. Each shows when it was measured.

Show the figures for:

Showing: Harborough.

People living here: 106,577 people 30 June 2025 · Office for National StatisticsAn official estimate of everyone who lives in the area, in the middle of the year.
Typical age: 45 years 30 June 2025 · Office for National StatisticsHalf the people who live here are younger than this and half are older.
Money to live on, per person, per year: £29,293 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage household income per person after taxes, with benefits added: what people have to spend or save.
Typical weekly pay, before tax: £654 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsFor employees who live here: half earn more than this each week, half earn less.
Children growing up in poverty: 14.5% April 2024 to March 2025 · Department for Work and PensionsThe share of children under 16 in families on low incomes once housing costs are paid.
People claiming unemployment-related benefits: 1.7% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsThe share of people aged 16 to 64 claiming Jobseeker's Allowance or Universal Credit while looking for work.
Average price of a home: £341,706 August 2026 · HM Land RegistryThe average price of a home here in the month shown.
How many years of pay a home costs: 7.8 times yearly pay 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsA typical home's price divided by the typical yearly pay of people who live here.
Greenhouse gases, per person: 6.8 tonnes per person 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroEmissions from the area in a year, shared out per resident, in tonnes of carbon dioxide or its equivalent.
Homes and businesses that can get the fastest broadband: 80.8% 1 January 2026 · OfcomThe share of addresses that can get gigabit broadband (1,000 Mbps).
Public chargers for electric cars: 126.1 per 100,000 people 1 July 2026 · Department for Transport, sourced from ZapmapPublic charging points at all speeds, for every 100,000 people.
Businesses trading here: 5,330 businesses 2024 · Office for National StatisticsBusinesses with sales or staff in the year.

More figures for Harborough from the ONS

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

34 seats in 2026. Run by: Conservatives, as a minority administration. Open Council Data (public domain).

Councillors by party: Conservative and Unionist 16, Liberal Democrats 9, Green Party (E&W) 3, Independent / Other 2, Labour Party 2, Reform UK 1, Vacant 1.

Next scheduled council election: 6 May 2027.

All 34 councillors, by ward

Sindy Modha (Conservative and Unionist) — Billesdon & Tilton
Amanda Nunn (Conservative and Unionist) — Bosworth
Joshua Worrell (Conservative and Unionist) — Broughton Astley South & Leire
Mark Graves (Independent / Other) — Broughton Astley South & Leire
Clive Grafton-Reed (Conservative and Unionist) — Broughton Astley-Primethorpe & Sutton
Paul Dann (Conservative and Unionist) — Broughton Astley-Primethorpe & Sutton
Neil Bannister (Conservative and Unionist) — Dunton
Alan Birch (Liberal Democrats) — Fleckney
Jonny Austin (Reform UK) — Fleckney
Peter Scott (Conservative and Unionist) — Glen
Rani Mahal (Conservative and Unionist) — Glen
Phil King (Conservative and Unionist) — Kibworths
Robin Hollick (Conservative and Unionist) — Kibworths
Simon Whelband (Conservative and Unionist) — Kibworths
Jo Asher (Liberal Democrats) — Lubenham
Martin Sarfas (Independent / Other) — Lutterworth East
Vacant (Vacant) — Lutterworth East
Jim Knight (Labour Party) — Lutterworth West
Paul Beadle (Labour Party) — Lutterworth West
Buddy Anderson (Liberal Democrats) — Market Harborough-Great Bowden & Arden
Phil Knowles (Liberal Democrats) — Market Harborough-Great Bowden & Arden
Peter James (Liberal Democrats) — Market Harborough-Little Bowden
Stuart Finan (Liberal Democrats) — Market Harborough-Little Bowden
David Page (Conservative and Unionist) — Market Harborough-Logan
Paul Bremner (Conservative and Unionist) — Market Harborough-Logan
Darren Woodiwiss (Green Party (E&W)) — Market Harborough-Welland
Lynne Taylor (Green Party (E&W)) — Market Harborough-Welland
Rose Forman (Green Party (E&W)) — Market Harborough-Welland
Jonathan Bateman (Conservative and Unionist) — Misterton
Michael Rickman (Conservative and Unionist) — Nevill
Amanda Burrell (Liberal Democrats) — Thurnby & Houghton
Peter Elliott (Liberal Democrats) — Thurnby & Houghton
Simon Galton (Liberal Democrats) — Thurnby & Houghton
Rosita Page (Conservative and Unionist) — Ullesthorpe

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.

Write to your councillors → WriteToThem (mySociety) finds them from your postcode; nothing is sent through this site.

Cite this page

Harvard style. Every figure on the page also names its original source, which is usually the better thing to cite.

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.