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Stockton-on-Tees: 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.

Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council: Unitary authority (unitary), England, North East; part of the TVCA combined authority. GOV.UK lists it as a unitary council. ONS code E06000004.

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 Stockton-on-Tees for 2026–27: £2,139.91 of a £2,589.83 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 (4 academy converter), 4 closed (4 academy converter)

Durham Lane Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 August 2026
Holy Trinity Rosehill CofE Voluntary Aided Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 30 April 2026
Ingleby Mill Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 May 2026
Tilery Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 28 February 2026
Durham Lane Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 September 2026
Holy Trinity Rosehill CofE Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 May 2026
Ingleby Mill Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 June 2026
Tilery Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 March 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 Stockton-on-Tees reported it to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in England.

Stockton-on-Tees: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
Service	Budget
Education services	£130.6 million
Highways and transport services	£12.8 million
Children's social care	£78.5 million
Adult social care	£93.4 million
Public health	£20.3 million
Housing services (general fund only)	£9.9 million
Cultural and related services	£8.8 million
Environmental and regulatory services	£23.3 million
Planning and development services	£3.6 million
Police services	none budgeted
Fire and rescue services	none budgeted
Central services	£7.8 million
Other services	£1.1 million
Total service expenditure	£390.1 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).

Stockton-on-Tees in numbers

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

Total population: 206,800 people 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMid-year estimate of the total number of people
Median age: 41 years 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMedian age of people
Gross disposable household income per head: £20,623 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage income per person (£) after taxes and direct benefits
Gross median weekly pay: £580 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsGross median weekly pay based on where people live (£)
Children in relative poverty after housing costs: 26.2% 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: 3.8% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsPercentage of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming unemployment-related benefits
Average house price: £170,029 July 2026 · HM Land RegistryAverage monthly price of a property (£)
Housing affordability ratio (residence-based): 4.7 affordability ratio 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsRatio of median house price to median gross annual residence-based earnings
Female healthy life expectancy: 54.9 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: 55.6 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: 5.6 tCO2e per capita 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) per capita
Gigabit capable broadband: 92.0% 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: 133.0 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: 6,080 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

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

Councillors by party: Conservative and Unionist 26, Labour Party 22, Thornaby Independent Association 4, Ingleby Barwick Independent Society 3, Independent / Other 1.

Next scheduled council election: 6 May 2027.

All 56 councillors, by ward

Ann McCoy (Labour Party) — Billingham Central
Barry Woodhouse (Labour Party) — Billingham Central
Michelle Bendelow (Labour Party) — Billingham East
Mick Stoker (Labour Party) — Billingham East
Clare Besford (Labour Party) — Billingham North
Marc Besford (Labour Party) — Billingham North
Katie Zagoria (Labour Party) — Billingham South
Paul Weston (Labour Party) — Billingham South
David Reynard (Conservative and Unionist) — Billingham West & Wolviston
Marcus Vickers (Conservative and Unionist) — Billingham West & Wolviston
Emily Tate (Conservative and Unionist) — Bishopsgarth & Elm Tree
Hugo Stratton (Conservative and Unionist) — Bishopsgarth & Elm Tree
Jim Taylor (Conservative and Unionist) — Eaglescliffe East
Stefan Houghton (Conservative and Unionist) — Eaglescliffe East
Diane Clarke (Conservative and Unionist) — Eaglescliffe West
Stephen Dodds (Conservative and Unionist) — Eaglescliffe West
Jack Miller (Conservative and Unionist) — Fairfield
Mohammed Mazi (Conservative and Unionist) — Fairfield
Stephen Richardson (Conservative and Unionist) — Fairfield
Carol Clark (Labour Party) — Grangefield
Nigel Cooke (Labour Party) — Hardwick & Salters Lane
Norma Stephenson (Labour Party) — Hardwick & Salters Lane
Jason French (Conservative and Unionist) — Hartburn
Lynn Hall (Conservative and Unionist) — Hartburn
Niall Innes (Conservative and Unionist) — Hartburn
Alan Watson (Conservative and Unionist) — Ingleby Barwick North
Sally Watson (Conservative and Unionist) — Ingleby Barwick North
Ted Strike (Independent / Other) — Ingleby Barwick North
Kevin Faulks (Ingleby Barwick Independent Society) — Ingleby Barwick South
Ross Patterson (Ingleby Barwick Independent Society) — Ingleby Barwick South
Stefan Barnes (Ingleby Barwick Independent Society) — Ingleby Barwick South
Nathan Gale (Labour Party) — Mandale & Victoria
Richard Eglington (Labour Party) — Mandale & Victoria
Marilyn Surtees (Labour Party) — Newtown
John Gardner (Conservative and Unionist) — Northern Parishes
Vanessa Sewell (Conservative and Unionist) — Northern Parishes
Lisa Evans (Labour Party) — Norton Central
Steve Nelson (Labour Party) — Norton Central
Hilary Vickers (Conservative and Unionist) — Norton North
Tony Riordan (Conservative and Unionist) — Norton North
Eileen Johnson (Labour Party) — Norton South
Robert Cook (Labour Party) — Norton South
Shakeel Hussain (Conservative and Unionist) — Ropner
Sufi Mubeen (Conservative and Unionist) — Ropner
Barbara Inman (Labour Party) — Roseworth
Jim Beall (Labour Party) — Roseworth
Elsi Hampton (Conservative and Unionist) — Southern Villages
Ray Godwin (Thornaby Independent Association) — Stainsby Hill
Sylvia Walmsley (Thornaby Independent Association) — Stainsby Hill
Paul Rowling (Labour Party) — Stockton Town Centre
Pauline Beall (Labour Party) — Stockton Town Centre
Ian Dalgarno (Thornaby Independent Association) — Village
Mick Moore (Thornaby Independent Association) — Village
Andrew Sherris (Conservative and Unionist) — Yarm
Dan Fagan (Conservative and Unionist) — Yarm
John Coulson (Conservative and Unionist) — Yarm

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.