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Nuneaton and Bedworth: 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.

Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council: Non-metropolitan district (lower tier), England, West Midlands; within the county of WAR. GOV.UK lists it as a district council, within Warwickshire County Council. ONS code E07000219.

Council website

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 Nuneaton and Bedworth for 2026–27: £279.59 of a £2,502.16 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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What the council plans to spend, 2026–27

The budget for each service, as Nuneaton and Bedworth reported it to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in England.

Nuneaton and Bedworth: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
Service	Budget
Education services	none budgeted
Highways and transport services	−£199,000
Children's social care	none budgeted
Adult social care	none budgeted
Public health	none budgeted
Housing services (general fund only)	£130,000
Cultural and related services	£3.4 million
Environmental and regulatory services	£7.3 million
Planning and development services	£2.7 million
Police services	none budgeted
Fire and rescue services	none budgeted
Central services	£10.4 million
Other services	none budgeted
Total service expenditure	£23.7 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).

Nuneaton and Bedworth in numbers

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

Total population: 141,565 people 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMid-year estimate of the total number of people
Median age: 40 years 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMedian age of people
Gross disposable household income per head: £20,856 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage income per person (£) after taxes and direct benefits
Gross median weekly pay: £627 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsGross median weekly pay based on where people live (£)
Children in relative poverty after housing costs: 25.4% 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: 4.0% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsPercentage of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming unemployment-related benefits
Average house price: £228,142 July 2026 · HM Land RegistryAverage monthly price of a property (£)
Housing affordability ratio (residence-based): 6.9 affordability ratio 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsRatio of median house price to median gross annual residence-based earnings
Greenhouse gas emissions: 3.4 tCO2e per capita 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) per capita
Gigabit capable broadband: 93.7% 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: 59.3 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: 3,895 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

38 seats in 2026. Run by: Labour, as a minority administration. Open Council Data (public domain).

Councillors by party: Reform UK 15, Labour Party 11, Conservative and Unionist 9, Green Party (E&W) 3.

Next scheduled council election: 4 May 2028.

All 38 councillors, by ward

Brady Hughes (Labour Party) — Arbury
Nita Bagga (Reform UK) — Arbury
Caroline Phillips (Labour Party) — Attleborough
Mike Bannister (Reform UK) — Attleborough
Bill Hancox (Labour Party) — Bede
George Finch (Reform UK) — Bede
Lubs Cvetkovic (Conservative and Unionist) — Bulkington
Paul Smith (Reform UK) — Bulkington
Colin Cape (Reform UK) — Camp Hill
Sharon Dhillon (Labour Party) — Camp Hill
Tony Venson (Labour Party) — Chilvers Coton
Tracy Sheppard (Labour Party) — Chilvers Coton
Richard Brill (Reform UK) — Eastboro
Tony Cooper (Conservative and Unionist) — Eastboro
Chris Morris (Reform UK) — Exhall
Damon Brown (Conservative and Unionist) — Exhall
James Bartlett (Reform UK) — Galley Common
Paul Hickling (Labour Party) — Galley Common
Ali Brassington (Reform UK) — Heath
Will Markham (Conservative and Unionist) — Heath
Keith Kondakor (Green Party (E&W)) — Milby
Michael Bird (Conservative and Unionist) — Milby
Bhagwant Pandher (Conservative and Unionist) — Poplar
Stan Carvell (Reform UK) — Poplar
Bobbie Greenwood (Reform UK) — Slough
Sue Markham (Conservative and Unionist) — Slough
Bhim Saru (Labour Party) — St Mary's
Nicky King (Labour Party) — St Mary's
Jake Groves (Reform UK) — St Nicolas
Jeff Clarke (Conservative and Unionist) — St Nicolas
Jack Bonner (Labour Party) — Stockingford East
Stuart Finch (Reform UK) — Stockingford East
Chris Watkins (Labour Party) — Stockingford West
Shane Coates-Jarman (Reform UK) — Stockingford West
Michele Kondakor (Green Party (E&W)) — Weddington
Mike Wright (Green Party (E&W)) — Weddington
Daljit Boughan (Reform UK) — Whitestone
Kristofer Wilson (Conservative and Unionist) — Whitestone

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.

Write to your councillors → WriteToThem (mySociety) finds them from your postcode; nothing is sent through this site.

Cite this page

Harvard style. Every figure on the page also names its original source, which is usually the better thing to cite.

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.