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Stoke-on-Trent: 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.

Stoke-on-Trent City Council: Unitary authority (unitary), England, West Midlands. GOV.UK lists it as a unitary council. ONS code E06000021.

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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 Stoke-on-Trent for 2026–27: £1,783.78 of a £2,183.12 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: 3 opened (2 new provision, 1 academy converter), 2 closed (1 academy converter, 1 closure)

Ball Green Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 March 2026
Bentilee Nursery School (nursery) — closed; reason recorded: closure, 31 August 2026
Ball Green Primary Academy (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 April 2026
Edgewood Academy — open; reason recorded: new provision, 2 September 2026
Spruce House School — open; reason recorded: new provision, 17 November 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 Stoke-on-Trent reported it to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in England.

Stoke-on-Trent: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
Service	Budget
Education services	£144.0 million
Highways and transport services	£15.3 million
Children's social care	£133.5 million
Adult social care	£127.8 million
Public health	£33.1 million
Housing services (general fund only)	£8.4 million
Cultural and related services	£8.4 million
Environmental and regulatory services	£21.4 million
Planning and development services	£2.1 million
Police services	none budgeted
Fire and rescue services	none budgeted
Central services	£14.1 million
Other services	£1.7 million
Total service expenditure	£509.9 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).

Stoke-on-Trent in numbers

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

Total population: 270,425 people 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMid-year estimate of the total number of people
Median age: 37 years 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMedian age of people
Gross disposable household income per head: £17,925 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage income per person (£) after taxes and direct benefits
Gross median weekly pay: £578 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsGross median weekly pay based on where people live (£)
Children in relative poverty after housing costs: 37.6% 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: 5.6% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsPercentage of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming unemployment-related benefits
Average house price: £147,377 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: 53.5 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: 55.1 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: 3.9 tCO2e per capita 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) per capita
Gigabit capable broadband: 94.0% 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: 106.9 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: 7,410 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

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

Councillors by party: Labour Party 27, Conservative and Unionist 8, Reform UK 5, Independent / Other 3, The Potteries Party 1.

Next scheduled council election: 6 May 2027.

All 44 councillors, by ward

Steve Watkins (Labour Party) — Abbey Hulton
Carl Edwards (Reform UK) — Baddeley, Milton & Norton
Dave Evans (Conservative and Unionist) — Baddeley, Milton & Norton
Duncan Walker (Labour Party) — Baddeley, Milton & Norton
Shaun Pender (Labour Party) — Basford & Hartshill
Lynn Watkins (Labour Party) — Bentilee, Ubberley & Townsend
Sarah Jane Colclough (Labour Party) — Bentilee, Ubberley & Townsend
Adrian Knapper (Labour Party) — Birches Head & Northwood
Luke Shenton (Reform UK) — Birches Head & Northwood
Lorraine Beardmore (Conservative and Unionist) — Blurton
Andy Platt (Labour Party) — Boothen
Gurmeet Singh Kallar (Labour Party) — Bradeley & Chell Heath
Heather Blurton (Reform UK) — Bucknall & Eaton Park
Jane Ashworth (Labour Party) — Burslem
Glen Watson (Labour Party) — Burslem Park
Lilian Dodd (Independent / Other) — Dresden & Florence
Majid Khan (Labour Party) — Etruria & Hanley
Mubsira Aumir (Labour Party) — Fenton East
Lyn Sharpe (Labour Party) — Fenton West & Mount Pleasant
Diane Williams (Labour Party) — Ford Green & Smallthorne
Chandra Kanneganti (Reform UK) — Goldenhill & Sandyford
David Mountford (The Potteries Party) — Great Chell & Packmoor
Sue Akkurt (Labour Party) — Great Chell & Packmoor
Daniel Jellyman (Reform UK) — Hanford, Newstead & Trentham
Maxine Clark (Independent / Other) — Hanford, Newstead & Trentham
Rachel Kelsall (Independent / Other) — Hanford, Newstead & Trentham
Alastair Watson (Labour Party) — Hanley Park, Joiner's Square & Shelton
Amjid Wazir (Labour Party) — Hanley Park, Joiner's Square & Shelton
Daniela Santoro (Labour Party) — Hartshill Park & Stoke
Finlay Gordon-McCusker (Labour Party) — Hollybush
Sadaqat Maqsoom (Conservative and Unionist) — Lightwood North & Normacot
David Williams (Labour Party) — Little Chell & Stanfield
Chris Robinson (Labour Party) — Longton & Meir Hay South
Craig Beardmore (Conservative and Unionist) — Meir Hay North, Parkhall & Weston Coyney
Ross Irving (Conservative and Unionist) — Meir Hay North, Parkhall & Weston Coyney
Lauren Davison (Labour Party) — Meir North
Abi Brown (Conservative and Unionist) — Meir Park
Faisal Hussain (Conservative and Unionist) — Meir South
Javid Najmi (Labour Party) — Moorcroft & Sneyd Green
Laura Carter (Labour Party) — Moorcroft & Sneyd Green
Sarah Hill (Labour Party) — Penkhull & Springfields
Joan Bell (Labour Party) — Sandford Hill
Waseem Akbar (Labour Party) — Trent Vale & Oak Hill
Tabrase Din (Conservative and Unionist) — Tunstall

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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