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Middlesbrough: 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.

Middlesbrough Borough Council: Unitary authority (unitary), England, North East; part of the TVCA combined authority. GOV.UK lists it as a unitary council. ONS code E06000002.

Council website

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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 Middlesbrough for 2026–27: £2,115.86 of a £2,549.16 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: 4 opened (3 new provision, 1 academy converter), 2 closed (1 academy converter, 1 closure)

Beverley School — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 August 2026
The Northern School of Art (16 plus) — closed; reason recorded: closure, 31 July 2026
Beverley School — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 September 2026
Fulcrum Education — open; reason recorded: new provision, 8 June 2026
The Northern College of Art (16 plus) — open; reason recorded: new provision, 1 August 2026
The Northern School of Art — open; reason recorded: new provision, 1 August 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 Middlesbrough reported it to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in England.

Middlesbrough: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
Service	Budget
Education services	£99.7 million
Highways and transport services	£5.9 million
Children's social care	£80.8 million
Adult social care	£80.2 million
Public health	£27.8 million
Housing services (general fund only)	£7.3 million
Cultural and related services	£5.5 million
Environmental and regulatory services	£22.0 million
Planning and development services	£1.6 million
Police services	none budgeted
Fire and rescue services	none budgeted
Central services	£8.6 million
Other services	£10.9 million
Total service expenditure	£350.3 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).

Middlesbrough in numbers

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

Total population: 156,161 people 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMid-year estimate of the total number of people
Median age: 36 years 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMedian age of people
Gross disposable household income per head: £17,855 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage income per person (£) after taxes and direct benefits
Gross median weekly pay: £583 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsGross median weekly pay based on where people live (£)
Children in relative poverty after housing costs: 38.7% 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: 5.1% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsPercentage of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming unemployment-related benefits
Average house price: £140,909 July 2026 · HM Land RegistryAverage monthly price of a property (£)
Housing affordability ratio (residence-based): 4.4 affordability ratio 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsRatio of median house price to median gross annual residence-based earnings
Female healthy life expectancy: 54.2 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: 53.9 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: 4.5 tCO2e per capita 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) per capita
Gigabit capable broadband: 94.6% 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: 90.9 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: 3,980 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

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

Councillors by party: Labour Party 24, Independent / Other 15, Conservative and Unionist 4, Reform UK 2, Liberal Democrats 1.

Next scheduled council election: 6 May 2027.

All 46 councillors, by ward

Luke Henman (Labour Party) — Acklam
Tom Livingstone (Liberal Democrats) — Acklam
Jackie Young (Independent / Other) — Ayresome
Janet Thompson (Labour Party) — Ayresome
Donna Jones (Independent / Other) — Berwick Hills & Pallister
Ian Blades (Labour Party) — Berwick Hills & Pallister
Julia Cooke (Labour Party) — Berwick Hills & Pallister
Graham Wilson (Independent / Other) — Brambles & Thorntree
Jack Banks (Labour Party) — Brambles & Thorntree
Stella Tranter (Labour Party) — Brambles & Thorntree
Lewis Young (Labour Party) — Central
Linda Lewis (Labour Party) — Central
Zafar Uddin (Labour Party) — Central
David Branson (Labour Party) — Coulby Newham
Jo Nicholson (Labour Party) — Coulby Newham
Luke Mason (Conservative and Unionist) — Coulby Newham
Nicky Walker (Labour Party) — Hemlington
Tom Mohan (Labour Party) — Hemlington
Jim Platt (Independent / Other) — Kader
Sharon Platt (Independent / Other) — Kader
Luke Hurst (Conservative and Unionist) — Ladgate
Tony Grainge (Independent / Other) — Ladgate
Naweed Hussain (Labour Party) — Linthorpe
Philippa Storey (Labour Party) — Linthorpe
Joan McTigue (Independent / Other) — Longlands & Beechwood
Mary Nugent (Labour Party) — Longlands & Beechwood
Peter Gavigan (Labour Party) — Longlands & Beechwood
Dorothy Davison (Independent / Other) — Marton East
Jason McConnell (Independent / Other) — Marton East
David Jackson (Independent / Other) — Marton West
Ian Morrish (Independent / Other) — Marton West
Anne Romaine (Labour Party) — Newport
Jill Ewan (Labour Party) — Newport
John Kabuye (Labour Party) — Newport
Jan Ryles (Labour Party) — North Ormesby
Joanne Rush (Reform UK) — Nunthorpe
Mieka Smiles (Conservative and Unionist) — Nunthorpe
Edward Clynch (Labour Party) — Park
Julia Rostron (Labour Party) — Park
Theo Furness (Labour Party) — Park
Brian Hubbard (Independent / Other) — Park End & Beckfield
Michael Saunders (Independent / Other) — Park End & Beckfield
Stephen Hill (Independent / Other) — Park End & Beckfield
David Coupe (Conservative and Unionist) — Stainton & Thornton
Christine Cooper (Reform UK) — Trimdon
Dennis McCabe (Independent / Other) — Trimdon

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.

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Cite this page

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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.