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South Staffordshire: 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.

Read on 24 September 2026. Councils publish at different rates and in different places, so “nothing found” means nothing found, not nothing happening.

South Staffordshire Council: Non-metropolitan district (lower tier), England, West Midlands; within the county of STS. GOV.UK lists it as a district council, within Staffordshire County Council. ONS code E07000196.

Council plan · Budget · Meeting papers · Councillors · Register of interests · Consultations

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

The main modifications to the South Staffordshire Local Plan (2023–2041) set a minimum of 4,726 homes over 2023-2041.

“A minimum of 4,726 homes over the period 2023-2041 to meet the district’s housing target requirement”

South Staffordshire Council, 17 April 2026. Read 24 September 2026. Schedule of Main Modifications (MM098, Policy DS4), updated 17/04/26. Verified with pdftotext. Plan submitted 11 December 2024; examination ongoing.

Local plans on the national planning register Updated automatically

Emerging new local plan, plan period 2023–2041, housing requirement 4,726 homes (entry updated 22 June 2026)
Adopted South Staffordshire Local Plan — adopted, plan period 2012–2028, housing requirement 3,850 homes (entry updated 22 June 2026)
South Staffordshire Site Allocations 2018, plan period 2018–2028, housing requirement 3,850 homes (entry updated 22 June 2026)
South Staffordshire Local Plan Review — submitted (entry updated 30 March 2026)

MHCLG planning data platform (planning.data.gov.uk), as supplied by the council; Open Government Licence. Stages are as recorded there, and some entries are old: each shows when the council last updated it.

Transport

South Staffordshire is a district council; no transport consultation or decision was found on its website. Where we looked

Council tax

Band D set by South Staffordshire for 2026–27: £150.34 of a £2,313.67 total bill in the area. MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027 (Open Government Licence).

MHCLG's published table gives South Staffordshire Council's average Band D council tax for 2026–27 as £150.34.

“150.34”

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, 25 March 2026. Read 24 September 2026. Figure read from Table 10 (ODS); the council's own decision papers were not readable.

Environment

No dated net zero or carbon neutral target for the council was found on South Staffordshire Council's website. Where we looked

Education

South Staffordshire is a district council and does not run schools. Where we looked

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), 0 closed

Ladybird Manor School — open; reason recorded: new provision, 22 December 2025

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 South Staffordshire reported it to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in England.

South Staffordshire: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
Service	Budget
Education services	none budgeted
Highways and transport services	£175,000
Children's social care	none budgeted
Adult social care	none budgeted
Public health	£25,000
Housing services (general fund only)	£2.1 million
Cultural and related services	£2.5 million
Environmental and regulatory services	£5.1 million
Planning and development services	£173,000
Police services	none budgeted
Fire and rescue services	none budgeted
Central services	£4.5 million
Other services	£7.9 million
Total service expenditure	£22.5 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 South Staffordshire: 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: 114,811 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: 48 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: £26,228 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: £625 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: 21.2% 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: 2.5% 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: £308,695 August 2026 · HM Land RegistryThe average price of a home here in the month shown.
How many years of pay a home costs: 7.5 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.
Greenhouse gases, per person: 7.5 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: 83.6% 1 January 2026 · OfcomThe share of addresses that can get gigabit broadband (1,000 Mbps).
Public chargers for electric cars: 119.7 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: 4,305 businesses 2024 · Office for National StatisticsBusinesses with sales or staff in the year.

More figures for South Staffordshire 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

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

Councillors by party: Conservative and Unionist 28, Independent / Other 5, Liberal Democrats 4, Green Party (E&W) 2, Labour Party 2, Vacant 1.

Next scheduled council election: 6 May 2027.

Elections here now: Huntington & Hatherton ward (19 November 2026).

All 42 councillors, by ward

Fiona Hopkins (Green Party (E&W)) — Bilbrook
Gary Burnett (Green Party (E&W)) — Bilbrook
Diane Holmes (Conservative and Unionist) — Brewood, Coven & Blymhill
Sue Szalapski (Conservative and Unionist) — Brewood, Coven & Blymhill
Wendy Sutton (Conservative and Unionist) — Brewood, Coven & Blymhill
Bernard Williams (Conservative and Unionist) — Cheslyn Hay Village
Robert Duncan (Conservative and Unionist) — Cheslyn Hay Village
Sue Duncan (Conservative and Unionist) — Cheslyn Hay Village
John Michell (Conservative and Unionist) — Codsall
Meg Barrow (Conservative and Unionist) — Codsall
Val Chapman (Conservative and Unionist) — Codsall
Christopher Steel (Independent / Other) — Essington
Warren Fisher (Independent / Other) — Essington
Bob Cope (Independent / Other) — Featherstone, Sharehill & Saredon
John Brindle (Labour Party) — Featherstone, Sharehill & Saredon
Joe Hill (Conservative and Unionist) — Great Wyrley Landywood
Ray Perry (Conservative and Unionist) — Great Wyrley Landywood
Kath Perry (Conservative and Unionist) — Great Wyrley Town
Matthew Jackson (Conservative and Unionist) — Great Wyrley Town
Vacant (Vacant) — Himley & Swindon
David Williams (Conservative and Unionist) — Huntington & Hatherton
Jeff Ashley (Labour Party) — Huntington & Hatherton
Gregory Spruce (Liberal Democrats) — Kinver & Enville
Paul Harrison (Liberal Democrats) — Kinver & Enville
Steph Dufty (Liberal Democrats) — Kinver & Enville
Rob Nelson (Independent / Other) — Lapley, Stretton & Wheaton Aston
Robert Reade (Conservative and Unionist) — Pattingham, Trysull, Bobbington & Lower Penn
Victoria Wilson (Conservative and Unionist) — Pattingham, Trysull, Bobbington & Lower Penn
Andrew Adams (Conservative and Unionist) — Penkridge North & Acton Trussell
Sam Harper-Wallis (Liberal Democrats) — Penkridge North & Acton Trussell
Helen Adams (Conservative and Unionist) — Penkridge South & Gailey
Victor Kelly (Conservative and Unionist) — Penkridge South & Gailey
Penny Allen (Independent / Other) — Perton East
Christopher Evans (Conservative and Unionist) — Perton Lakeside
Rita Heseltine (Conservative and Unionist) — Perton Lakeside
Philip Davis (Conservative and Unionist) — Perton Wrottesley
Barry Bond (Conservative and Unionist) — Wombourne North
Dan Kinsey (Conservative and Unionist) — Wombourne North
Martin Perry (Conservative and Unionist) — Wombourne North
Mark Evans (Conservative and Unionist) — Wombourne South
Mike Davies (Conservative and Unionist) — Wombourne South
Vincent Merrick (Conservative and Unionist) — Wombourne South

Each councillor’s register of interests is on the council’s own site, linked rather than summarised, because summarising means choosing. 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 could not be read automatically (the site blocks or did not answer), so decisions and motions are not listed here; the meeting papers hold them.

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

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