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Leicester: 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.

Leicester City Council: Unitary authority (unitary), England, East Midlands. GOV.UK lists it as a unitary council. ONS code E06000016.

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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 Leicester for 2026–27: £2,121.87 of a £2,528.75 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: 6 opened (4 new provision, 2 academy converter), 2 closed (2 academy converter)

Oaklands School — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 August 2026
Taylor Road Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 December 2025
Avicenna School — open; reason recorded: new provision, 16 January 2026
Darul Madinah Leicester Ltd — open; reason recorded: new provision, 9 December 2025
Indie Education — open; reason recorded: new provision, 22 January 2026
Leicester Therapeutic School — open; reason recorded: new provision, 21 May 2026
Oaklands Mead Academy — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 September 2026
Taylor Road Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 January 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 Leicester reported it to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in England.

Leicester: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
Service	Budget
Education services	£365.2 million
Highways and transport services	£16.8 million
Children's social care	£116.8 million
Adult social care	£231.8 million
Public health	£39.2 million
Housing services (general fund only)	£30.8 million
Cultural and related services	£18.5 million
Environmental and regulatory services	£36.9 million
Planning and development services	£3.8 million
Police services	none budgeted
Fire and rescue services	none budgeted
Central services	£19.2 million
Other services	£3.6 million
Total service expenditure	£882.6 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).

Leicester in numbers

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

Total population: 388,348 people 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMid-year estimate of the total number of people
Median age: 32 years 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMedian age of people
Gross disposable household income per head: £16,786 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage income per person (£) after taxes and direct benefits
Gross median weekly pay: £558 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsGross median weekly pay based on where people live (£)
Children in relative poverty after housing costs: 40.1% 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: 5.7% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsPercentage of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming unemployment-related benefits
Average house price: £227,322 July 2026 · HM Land RegistryAverage monthly price of a property (£)
Housing affordability ratio (residence-based): 7.6 affordability ratio 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsRatio of median house price to median gross annual residence-based earnings
Female healthy life expectancy: 57.9 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: 57.8 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: 3.0 tCO2e per capita 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) per capita
Gigabit capable broadband: 97.6% 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: 88.1 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: 14,260 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

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

Councillors by party: Labour Party 30, Conservative and Unionist 15, Green Party (E&W) 4, Liberal Democrats 3, Independent / Other 2.

Next scheduled council election: 6 May 2027.

All 54 councillors, by ward

Annette Byrne (Labour Party) — Abbey
Charleigh Barnes (Conservative and Unionist) — Abbey
Nags Agath (Independent / Other) — Abbey
Nigel Porter (Liberal Democrats) — Aylestone
Scott Kennedy-Lount (Liberal Democrats) — Aylestone
Hazel Orton (Conservative and Unionist) — Beaumont Leys
Hemant Rae Bhatia (Conservative and Unionist) — Beaumont Leys
Paul Westley (Conservative and Unionist) — Beaumont Leys
Jaiantilal Gopal (Conservative and Unionist) — Belgrave
Shital Adatia (Conservative and Unionist) — Belgrave
Yogesh Chauhan (Conservative and Unionist) — Belgrave
Elaine Halford (Labour Party) — Braunstone Park & Rowley Fields
Kulwinder Singh Johal (Labour Party) — Braunstone Park & Rowley Fields
Susan Barton (Labour Party) — Braunstone Park & Rowley Fields
Liz Sahu (Green Party (E&W)) — Castle
Mick Gregg (Green Party (E&W)) — Castle
Patrick Kitterick (Green Party (E&W)) — Castle
Deepak Bajaj (Labour Party) — Evington
Jenny Joannou (Conservative and Unionist) — Evington
Zuffar Haq (Liberal Democrats) — Evington
Elaine Pantling (Labour Party) — Eyres Monsell
Karen Pickering (Labour Party) — Eyres Monsell
Susan Waddington (Labour Party) — Fosse
Syed Zaman (Labour Party) — Fosse
Ashiedu Joel (Labour Party) — Humberstone & Hamilton
Manjit Kaur Saini (Labour Party) — Humberstone & Hamilton
Stephen Bonham (Labour Party) — Humberstone & Hamilton
Geoff Whittle (Labour Party) — Knighton
Lynn Moore (Labour Party) — Knighton
Melissa March (Labour Party) — Knighton
Dilip Joshi (Conservative and Unionist) — North Evington
Ravi Mahesh (Conservative and Unionist) — North Evington
Sanjay Modhwadia (Conservative and Unionist) — North Evington
Bhupen Dave (Conservative and Unionist) — Rushey Mead
Devi Singh Patel (Conservative and Unionist) — Rushey Mead
Geeta Karavadra (Conservative and Unionist) — Rushey Mead
Elly Cutkelvin (Labour Party) — Saffron
Ted Cassidy (Labour Party) — Saffron
Misbah Batool (Labour Party) — Spinney Hills
Mustafa Malik (Labour Party) — Spinney Hills
Aasiya Bora (Green Party (E&W)) — Stoneygate
Raffiq Mohammed (Labour Party) — Stoneygate
Yasmin Surti (Labour Party) — Stoneygate
Abdul Osman (Conservative and Unionist) — Thurncourt
Teresa Aldred (Labour Party) — Thurncourt
Diane Cank (Independent / Other) — Troon
Mohinder Singh Sangha (Labour Party) — Troon
Adam Clarke (Labour Party) — Westcotes
Sarah Russell (Labour Party) — Westcotes
George Cole (Labour Party) — Western
Molly O'Neill (Labour Party) — Western
Vi Dempster (Labour Party) — Western
Hanif Aqbany (Labour Party) — Wycliffe
Mohammed Dawood (Labour Party) — Wycliffe

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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