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Manchester: 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.

Manchester City Council: Metropolitan district (unitary), England, North West; part of the GMCA combined authority. GOV.UK lists it as a unitary council. ONS code E08000003.

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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 Manchester for 2026–27: £1,872.79 of a £2,312.04 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

Ravensbury Community School (primary) — open, but proposed to close; reason recorded: for academy; proposed date 31 March 2027
Ravensbury Community School (primary) — proposed to open; reason recorded: new provision; proposed date 1 April 2027

In the last twelve months: 6 opened (5 academy converter, 1 new provision), 5 closed (5 academy converter)

St Cuthbert's RC Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 30 June 2026
St John Bosco RC Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 30 November 2025
St John's RC Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 30 June 2026
St Malachy's RC Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 30 June 2026
St Mary's RC Primary School Manchester (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 30 June 2026
Oakbrook School — open; reason recorded: new provision, 23 April 2026
St Cuthbert's RC Primary School and Nursery, A Voluntary Academy (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 July 2026
St John Bosco RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 December 2025
St John's RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 July 2026
St Malachy's RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 July 2026
St Mary's RC Primary School, Manchester, A Voluntary Academy (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 July 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 Manchester reported it to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in England.

Manchester: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
Service	Budget
Education services	£506.1 million
Highways and transport services	£3.1 million
Children's social care	£228.3 million
Adult social care	£324.7 million
Public health	£62.2 million
Housing services (general fund only)	£86.2 million
Cultural and related services	£46.5 million
Environmental and regulatory services	£60.5 million
Planning and development services	£28.4 million
Police services	none budgeted
Fire and rescue services	none budgeted
Central services	£28.8 million
Other services	none budgeted
Total service expenditure	£1,374.8 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).

Manchester in numbers

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

Total population: 589,670 people 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMid-year estimate of the total number of people
Median age: 30 years 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMedian age of people
Gross disposable household income per head: £19,885 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage income per person (£) after taxes and direct benefits
Gross median weekly pay: £589 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsGross median weekly pay based on where people live (£)
Children in relative poverty after housing costs: 42.3% 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: 6.0% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsPercentage of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming unemployment-related benefits
Average house price: £252,309 July 2026 · HM Land RegistryAverage monthly price of a property (£)
Housing affordability ratio (residence-based): 6.8 affordability ratio 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsRatio of median house price to median gross annual residence-based earnings
Female healthy life expectancy: 57.7 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: 56.7 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: 3.4 tCO2e per capita 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) per capita
Gigabit capable broadband: 90.0% 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: 128.2 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: 26,230 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

96 seats in 2026. Run by: Labour, with a majority. Open Council Data (public domain).

Councillors by party: Labour Party 63, Green Party (E&W) 21, Reform UK 7, Liberal Democrats 4, Workers Party of Britain 1.

Next scheduled council election: 6 May 2027.

All 96 councillors, by ward

Alan Good (Liberal Democrats) — Ancoats & Beswick
Chris Northwood (Liberal Democrats) — Ancoats & Beswick
Hussayn Salem (Green Party (E&W)) — Ancoats & Beswick
Abdigafar Muse (Labour Party) — Ardwick
Alex-Salik Imran (Green Party (E&W)) — Ardwick
Amna Abdullatif (Green Party (E&W)) — Ardwick
Munaver Hussain Rasul (Labour Party) — Baguley
Sian Astley (Reform UK) — Baguley
Tracey Rawlins (Labour Party) — Baguley
Dave Marsh (Labour Party) — Brooklands
Glynn Evans (Labour Party) — Brooklands
Steven Hodgkiss (Reform UK) — Brooklands
Asma Alam (Green Party (E&W)) — Burnage
Azra Ali (Labour Party) — Burnage
Bev Craig (Labour Party) — Burnage
Basil Curley (Labour Party) — Charlestown
Dylan Evans (Reform UK) — Charlestown
Uzma Jafri (Labour Party) — Charlestown
Naeem Hassan (Labour Party) — Cheetham
Shaukat Ali (Labour Party) — Cheetham
Shazia Butt (Labour Party) — Cheetham
Chantal Kerr-Sheppard (Green Party (E&W)) — Chorlton
Mathew Benham (Labour Party) — Chorlton
Tina Kirwin-McGinley (Labour Party) — Chorlton
Dave Rawson (Labour Party) — Chorlton Park
Grace Tudor-Worrall (Green Party (E&W)) — Chorlton Park
Mandie Godwin (Labour Party) — Chorlton Park
Donna Ludford (Labour Party) — Clayton & Openshaw
Sean McHale (Labour Party) — Clayton & Openshaw
Thomas Robinson (Labour Party) — Clayton & Openshaw
Fiaz Riasat (Labour Party) — Crumpsall
Jawad Amin (Labour Party) — Crumpsall
Nasrin Ali (Labour Party) — Crumpsall
Anthony McCaul (Labour Party) — Deansgate
Marcus Johns (Labour Party) — Deansgate
Sarah Wakefield (Green Party (E&W)) — Deansgate
Andrew Simcock (Labour Party) — Didsbury East
Leslie Bell (Labour Party) — Didsbury East
Linda Foley (Labour Party) — Didsbury East
Debbie Hilal (Labour Party) — Didsbury West
John Leech (Liberal Democrats) — Didsbury West
Richard Kilpatrick (Liberal Democrats) — Didsbury West
Ghazala Sadiq (Labour Party) — Fallowfield
Jade Doswell (Labour Party) — Fallowfield
Sufyaan Jasat (Green Party (E&W)) — Fallowfield
Afia Kamal (Labour Party) — Gorton & Abbey Hey
Chris Ogden (Green Party (E&W)) — Gorton & Abbey Hey
Julie Reid (Labour Party) — Gorton & Abbey Hey
David Godfrey (Labour Party) — Harpurhey
Joanne Green (Labour Party) — Harpurhey
Pat Karney (Labour Party) — Harpurhey
Julie Connolly (Labour Party) — Higher Blackley
Martin Power (Reform UK) — Higher Blackley
Paula Sadler (Labour Party) — Higher Blackley
Annette Wright (Labour Party) — Hulme
Bernard Ekbery (Green Party (E&W)) — Hulme
Lee Glover (Labour Party) — Hulme
Basat Sheikh (Labour Party) — Levenshulme
Fesl Reza-Khan (Green Party (E&W)) — Levenshulme
Zahid Hussain (Labour Party) — Levenshulme
Asif Ranjha (Green Party (E&W)) — Longsight
Shahbaz Sarwar (Workers Party of Britain) — Longsight
Suzanne Richards (Labour Party) — Longsight
John Flanagan (Labour Party) — Miles Platting & Newton Heath
June Hitchen (Labour Party) — Miles Platting & Newton Heath
Tom Lane (Reform UK) — Miles Platting & Newton Heath
Esha Mumtaz (Labour Party) — Moss Side
Mahdi Mahamed (Labour Party) — Moss Side
Thirza Asanga-Rae (Green Party (E&W)) — Moss Side
Blake Fisher (Reform UK) — Moston
Sherita Mandongwe (Labour Party) — Moston
Yasmine Dar (Labour Party) — Moston
Angela Moran (Labour Party) — Northenden
Richard Fletcher (Labour Party) — Northenden
Sam Lynch (Labour Party) — Northenden
Garry Bridges (Labour Party) — Old Moat
Gavin White (Labour Party) — Old Moat
Sam Easterby-Smith (Green Party (E&W)) — Old Moat
Jon-Connor Lyons (Labour Party) — Piccadilly
Ross Steven (Green Party (E&W)) — Piccadilly
Sam Wheeler (Labour Party) — Piccadilly
Ahmed Ali (Labour Party) — Rusholme
Jill Lovecy (Labour Party) — Rusholme
Shams Syed (Green Party (E&W)) — Rusholme
David McCullough (Reform UK) — Sharston
Emma Taylor (Labour Party) — Sharston
Tim Whiston (Labour Party) — Sharston
Angeliki Stogia (Labour Party) — Whalley Range
Ati Zafar (Green Party (E&W)) — Whalley Range
Muqaddasah Bano (Labour Party) — Whalley Range
Becky Chambers (Labour Party) — Withington
Beth Hartness (Green Party (E&W)) — Withington
Chris Wills (Labour Party) — Withington
Astrid Johnson (Green Party (E&W)) — Woodhouse Park
Rob Nunney (Green Party (E&W)) — Woodhouse Park
Zoe Marlow (Green Party (E&W)) — Woodhouse Park

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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