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Melton: 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.
Melton Borough 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.
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 Melton for 2026–27: £244.88 of a £2,429.67 total bill in the area.
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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 (1 academy converter, 1 new provision), 1 closed (1 academy converter)
- Birch Wood (Melton Area Special School) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 30 November 2025
- Birch Wood (Melton Area Special School) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 December 2025
- Include-Welby Grange — open; reason recorded: new provision, 27 August 2026
What the council plans to spend, 2026–27
| Service | Budget |
|---|---|
| Education services | none budgeted |
| Highways and transport services | −£109,000 |
| Children's social care | none budgeted |
| Adult social care | none budgeted |
| Public health | none budgeted |
| Housing services (general fund only) | £2.0 million |
| Cultural and related services | £771,000 |
| Environmental and regulatory services | £3.7 million |
| Planning and development services | £1.7 million |
| Police services | none budgeted |
| Fire and rescue services | none budgeted |
| Central services | £2.3 million |
| Other services | £1.3 million |
| Total service expenditure | £11.7 million |
Melton in numbers
- Total population
- 54,052 people
- Median age
- 47 years
- Gross disposable household income per head
- £26,529
- Gross median weekly pay
- £515
- Children in relative poverty after housing costs
- 22.5%
- Claimant Count
- 3.1%
- Average house price
- £282,521
- Housing affordability ratio (residence-based)
- 8.0 affordability ratio
- Greenhouse gas emissions
- 7.8 tCO2e per capita
- Gigabit capable broadband
- 78.8%
- Public electric vehicle chargers
- 62.9 per 100,000 population
- Active businesses
- 2,350 number of enterprises
Who runs the council
28 seats in 2026. Run by: a coalition or arrangement of independents and Labour.
Councillors by party: Independent / Other 11, Conservative and Unionist 11, Labour Party 5, Liberal Democrats 1.
Next scheduled council election: 6 May 2027.
All 28 councillors, by ward
- Margaret Clay (Labour Party) — Asfordby
- Steven Carter (Independent / Other) — Asfordby
- Donald Pritchett (Conservative and Unionist) — Bottesford
- James Mason (Labour Party) — Bottesford
- Elaine Holmes (Conservative and Unionist) — Croxton Kerrial
- Ronan Browne (Conservative and Unionist) — Frisby-on-the-Wreake
- Robert Child (Conservative and Unionist) — Gaddesby
- Christopher Evans (Independent / Other) — Long Clawson and Stathern
- Simon Orson (Conservative and Unionist) — Long Clawson and Stathern
- Ian Atherton (Conservative and Unionist) — Melton Craven
- Sharon Butcher (Independent / Other) — Melton Craven
- Marilyn Gordon (Independent / Other) — Melton Dorian
- Pat Cumbers (Independent / Other) — Melton Dorian
- Sarah Cox (Labour Party) — Melton Dorian
- Mike Brown (Labour Party) — Melton Egerton
- Pip Allnatt (Independent / Other) — Melton Egerton
- Margaret Glancy (Independent / Other) — Melton Newport
- Simon Lumley (Independent / Other) — Melton Newport
- Tim Webster (Conservative and Unionist) — Melton Newport
- Helen Cliff (Labour Party) — Melton Sysonby
- Jim Adcock (Liberal Democrats) — Melton Sysonby
- Siggy Atherton (Conservative and Unionist) — Melton Sysonby
- Alison Freer (Conservative and Unionist) — Melton Warwick
- Allen Thwaites (Independent / Other) — Melton Warwick
- Joe Orson (Conservative and Unionist) — Old Dalby
- Leigh Higgins (Independent / Other) — Somerby
- Richard Sharp (Independent / Other) — Waltham-on-the-Wolds
- David Chubb (Conservative and Unionist) — Wymondham