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Nottingham: 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.

Nottingham City Council: Unitary authority (unitary), England, East Midlands; part of the EMCA combined authority. GOV.UK lists it as a unitary council. ONS code E06000018.

Council website · Publication scheme · Disclosure log

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

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Transport

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Council tax

Band D set by Nottingham for 2026–27: £2,342.08 of a £2,755.39 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: 1 opened (1 new provision), 1 closed (1 closure)

Snape Wood Primary and Nursery School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: closure, 31 August 2026
Crisp Vocational Provision — open; reason recorded: new provision, 19 June 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 Nottingham reported it to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in England.

Nottingham: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
Service	Budget
Education services	£188.5 million
Highways and transport services	£53.8 million
Children's social care	£131.5 million
Adult social care	£170.1 million
Public health	£48.0 million
Housing services (general fund only)	£31.3 million
Cultural and related services	£16.0 million
Environmental and regulatory services	£44.7 million
Planning and development services	£7.6 million
Police services	none budgeted
Fire and rescue services	none budgeted
Central services	£23.5 million
Other services	£22.7 million
Total service expenditure	£737.7 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 Nottingham: 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.

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People living here: 325,765 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: 31 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: £17,696 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: £531 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: 40.2% 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: 6.0% 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: £189,547 August 2026 · HM Land RegistryThe average price of a home here in the month shown.
How many years of pay a home costs: 6.5 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.
Years in good health: women: 55.3 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsHow many years a girl born here can expect to live in good health, at current rates.
Years in good health: men: 55.6 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsHow many years a boy born here can expect to live in good health, at current rates.
Greenhouse gases, per person: 3.3 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: 96.8% 1 January 2026 · OfcomThe share of addresses that can get gigabit broadband (1,000 Mbps).
Public chargers for electric cars: 154.3 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: 10,485 businesses 2024 · Office for National StatisticsBusinesses with sales or staff in the year.

More figures for Nottingham 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

This council’s area is covered by East Midlands combined authority, with its elected mayor.

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

Councillors by party: Labour Party 43, Nottingham People’s Alliance 6, Nottingham Independents 3, Independent / Other 2, Green Party (E&W) 1.

Next scheduled council election: 6 May 2027.

All 55 councillors, by ward

Carole McCulloch (Labour Party) — Aspley
Graham Chapman (Labour Party) — Aspley
Patience Ifediora (Labour Party) — Aspley
Linda Woodings (Labour Party) — Basford
Nick Raine (Labour Party) — Basford
Salma Mumtaz (Labour Party) — Basford
Angela Kandola (Labour Party) — Berridge
Shuguftah Quddoos (Green Party (E&W)) — Berridge
Sulcan Mahmood (Labour Party) — Berridge
Audra Wynter (Labour Party) — Bestwood
Georgia Power (Labour Party) — Bestwood
Jay Hayes (Labour Party) — Bestwood
Faith Gakanje-Ajala (Nottingham People’s Alliance) — Bilborough
Helen Kalsi (Labour Party) — Bilborough
Sam Harris (Labour Party) — Bilborough
Ethan Radford (Labour Party) — Bulwell
Maria Joannou (Labour Party) — Bulwell
Michael Savage (Labour Party) — Bulwell
Cheryl Barnard (Labour Party) — Bulwell Forest
Samuel Gardiner (Labour Party) — Bulwell Forest
Sarita-Marie Rehman-Wall (Labour Party) — Bulwell Forest
Matt Shannon (Labour Party) — Castle
Sam Lux (Labour Party) — Castle
Kevin Clarke (Nottingham Independents) — Clifton East
Kirsty Jones (Nottingham Independents) — Clifton East
Maria Watson (Nottingham Independents) — Clifton East
Andrew Rule (Independent / Other) — Clifton West
Hayley Spain (Labour Party) — Clifton West
David Mellen (Labour Party) — Dales
Gul Khan (Labour Party) — Dales
Neghat Khan (Labour Party) — Dales
Liaqat Ali (Labour Party) — Hyson Green & Arboretum
Naim Salim (Nottingham People’s Alliance) — Hyson Green & Arboretum
Sana Nasir (Labour Party) — Hyson Green & Arboretum
Audrey Dinnall (Labour Party) — Leen Valley
Nadia Farhat (Independent / Other) — Leen Valley
Imran Jalil (Nottingham People’s Alliance) — Lenton & Wollaton East
Pavlos Kotsonis (Labour Party) — Lenton & Wollaton East
Samina Riaz (Labour Party) — Lenton & Wollaton East
Kirsty L Jones (Nottingham People’s Alliance) — Mapperley
Leslie Ayoola (Labour Party) — Mapperley
Sajid Mohammed (Labour Party) — Mapperley
Eunice Regan (Labour Party) — Meadows
Michael Edwards (Labour Party) — Meadows
Farzanna Mahmood (Labour Party) — Radford
Fozia Mubashar (Labour Party) — Radford
Adele Williams (Labour Party) — Sherwood
AJ Matsiko (Nottingham People’s Alliance) — Sherwood
Nayab Patel (Labour Party) — Sherwood
Anwar Khan (Nottingham People’s Alliance) — St. Ann's
Corall Jenkins (Labour Party) — St. Ann's
Devontay Okure (Labour Party) — St. Ann's
Saj Ahmad (Labour Party) — Wollaton West
Steve Battlemuch (Labour Party) — Wollaton West
Zafran Nawaz Khan (Labour Party) — Wollaton West

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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