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Stratford-on-Avon: 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.
Stratford-on-Avon District 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.
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
- Noise pollution: Reporting
- Council tax annual notification: Providing information
- Council tax discount: Applications for service
- Council tax benefit new claim: Applications for service
- Housing benefit new claim: Providing information
- Electoral register: Providing information
- Electoral register: Applications for service
- Parking permits: Providing information
- Planning decision notices: Providing information
- Councillors directory: Providing information
- Complaints procedure: Providing information
Housing
We haven't read this council's own publications yet. The council’s website
Transport
We haven't read this council's own publications yet. The council’s website
Council tax
Band D set by Stratford-on-Avon for 2026–27: £174.18 of a £2,484.17 total bill in the area.
We haven't read this council's own publications yet. The council’s website
Environment
The council’s climate-emergency motion, in its own words, 15 July 2019:
“Therefore, the Council declares a ‘Climate Emergency’ as a pledge to take local action to contribute to national carbon neutral targets through the development of their own practices and policies with an aim to be carbon-neutral in Stratford District by 2030.”
Beyond that document, we haven't read this council's own publications yet. The council’s website
Education
We haven't read this council's own publications yet. The council’s website
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), 1 closed (1 closure)
- Great Alne Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: closure, 31 August 2026
- Chestnut Place — open; reason recorded: new provision, 18 February 2026
What the council plans to spend, 2026–27
| Service | Budget |
|---|---|
| Education services | none budgeted |
| Highways and transport services | −£1.3 million |
| Children's social care | none budgeted |
| Adult social care | none budgeted |
| Public health | none budgeted |
| Housing services (general fund only) | £4.4 million |
| Cultural and related services | £722,000 |
| Environmental and regulatory services | £9.2 million |
| Planning and development services | £5.8 million |
| Police services | none budgeted |
| Fire and rescue services | none budgeted |
| Central services | £5.9 million |
| Other services | £809,000 |
| Total service expenditure | £25.6 million |
Life in Stratford-on-Avon: the official facts
- People living here
- 148,772 people
- Typical age
- 47 years
- Money to live on, per person, per year
- £32,950
- Typical weekly pay, before tax
- £697
- Children growing up in poverty
- 17.7%
- People claiming unemployment-related benefits
- 2.0%
- Average price of a home
- £396,711
- How many years of pay a home costs
- 9.0 times yearly pay
- Greenhouse gases, per person
- 6.9 tonnes per person
- Homes and businesses that can get the fastest broadband
- 85.3%
- Public chargers for electric cars
- 200.3 per 100,000 people
- Businesses trading here
- 8,305 businesses
Who runs the council
41 seats in 2026. Run by: Liberal Democrats, with a majority.
Councillors by party: Liberal Democrats 25, Conservative and Unionist 9, Green Party (E&W) 3, Reform UK 2, Independent / Other 2.
Next scheduled council election: 6 May 2027.
All 41 councillors, by ward
- Susan Juned (Liberal Democrats) — Alcester East
- Tom Ballinger (Liberal Democrats) — Alcester West
- Daren Pemberton (Conservative and Unionist) — Bidford East
- Bill Fleming (Conservative and Unionist) — Bidford West
- Jake Beavan (Liberal Democrats) — Bishop's Itchington, Fenny Compton & Napton
- Natalie Gist (Liberal Democrats) — Bishop's Itchington, Fenny Compton & Napton
- Sarah Whalley-Hoggins (Reform UK) — Brailes & Compton
- Duncan Parker (Green Party (E&W)) — Claverdon & Snitterfield
- Alan Scorer (Conservative and Unionist) — Gaydon, Kineton & Upper Lighthorne
- Christopher Mills (Conservative and Unionist) — Gaydon, Kineton & Upper Lighthorne
- Susan Ostrander (Liberal Democrats) — Harbury
- Mike Rice (Liberal Democrats) — Henley-in-Arden
- Thom Holmes (Liberal Democrats) — Kinwarton
- Stuart Keighley (Liberal Democrats) — Long Marston
- Paul Harrison (Liberal Democrats) — Quinton
- Ashley Jones (Reform UK) — Salford Priors & Alcester Rural
- Olivia Hatch (Green Party (E&W)) — Shipston North
- Dave Passingham (Green Party (E&W)) — Shipston South
- Andrew Crump (Conservative and Unionist) — Southam East, Central & Stockton
- Louis Adam (Liberal Democrats) — Southam North & Long Itchington
- Gillian Padgham (Liberal Democrats) — Southam South
- Tony Bromwich (Independent / Other) — Southam West
- Lorraine Grocott (Liberal Democrats) — Stratford Avenue
- Victoria Alcock (Liberal Democrats) — Stratford Bishopton
- Letty Petrovic (Liberal Democrats) — Stratford Clopton
- Jennifer Fradgley (Liberal Democrats) — Stratford Guildhall & Bridgetown
- Liz Coles (Liberal Democrats) — Stratford Hathaway
- Ian Fradgley (Liberal Democrats) — Stratford Orchard Hill
- David Curtis (Liberal Democrats) — Stratford Shottery
- Kate Rolfe (Liberal Democrats) — Stratford Tiddington
- Roger Harding (Liberal Democrats) — Stratford Welcombe
- Peter Hencher-Serafin (Liberal Democrats) — Studley North
- Neil Edden (Liberal Democrats) — Studley South
- Lynda Organ (Conservative and Unionist) — Tanworth-in-Arden
- Trevor Harvey (Independent / Other) — Tredington
- Malcolm Littlewood (Conservative and Unionist) — Tysoe
- Cliff Brown (Liberal Democrats) — Welford-on-Avon
- David Johnston (Liberal Democrats) — Wellesbourne East & Rural
- Anne Parry (Conservative and Unionist) — Wellesbourne North & Rural
- George Cowcher (Liberal Democrats) — Wellesbourne South
- Ian Shenton (Conservative and Unionist) — Wootton Wawen