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Rhondda Cynon Taff: 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.
Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council: Welsh unitary authority (unitary), Wales. GOV.UK lists it as a unitary 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
- Road maintenance: Reporting
- Street lighting: 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
- Primary school places: Applications for service
- Secondary school places: Applications for service
- Library facilities: Providing information
- 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
Average Band D council tax in Rhondda Cynon Taff for 2026–27: £2,289.43 a year. Of that, £1,845.27 is set by the council, £405.14 by the police and, on average, £39.02 by community councils.
Every band
| Band | A year |
|---|---|
| A- | £1,271.91 |
| A | £1,526.29 |
| B | £1,780.67 |
| C | £2,035.05 |
| D | £2,289.43 |
| E | £2,798.19 |
| F | £3,306.95 |
| G | £3,815.72 |
| H | £4,578.86 |
| I | £5,342.00 |
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Environment
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Education
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What the council plans to spend, 2026–27
| Service | Budget |
|---|---|
| Education | £348.5 million |
| Social services | £271.2 million |
| Council fund housing | £49.0 million |
| Local environmental services | £45.8 million |
| Roads and transport | £25.5 million |
| Libraries, culture, heritage, sport and recreation | £20.3 million |
| Planning, economic and community development | £8.0 million |
| Local tax collection | £2.5 million |
| Debt financing costs | £20.7 million |
| Law, order and protective services | none budgeted |
| Central administration | £16.1 million |
| Other revenue expenditure | £63.9 million |
| Revenue expenditure | £871.4 million |
Rhondda Cynon Taff in numbers
- Total population
- 242,844 people
- Median age
- 41 years
- Gross disposable household income per head
- £19,935
- Gross median weekly pay
- £575
- Children in relative poverty after housing costs
- 26.6%
- Claimant Count
- 3.1%
- Average house price
- £164,192
- Housing affordability ratio (residence-based)
- 4.6 affordability ratio
- Female healthy life expectancy
- 54.9 years
- Male healthy life expectancy
- 56.0 years
- Greenhouse gas emissions
- 4.1 tCO2e per capita
- Gigabit capable broadband
- 81.4%
- Public electric vehicle chargers
- 121.1 per 100,000 population
- Active businesses
- 6,080 number of enterprises