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Surrey: 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.

Surrey County Council: County (upper tier), England, South East. GOV.UK lists it as a county council. ONS code E10000030.

Council website · Publication scheme

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

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Transport

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Council tax

Band D set by Surrey for 2026–27: £1,938.42. 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 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: 13 opened (11 academy converter, 1 new provision, 1 fresh start), 16 closed (11 academy converter, 2 closure, 2 result of amalgamation/merger, 1 fresh start)

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

Surrey: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
ServiceBudget
Education services£930.3 million
Highways and transport services£101.7 million
Children's social care£271.3 million
Adult social care£576.1 million
Public health£52.9 million
Housing services (general fund only)£3.0 million
Cultural and related services£15.5 million
Environmental and regulatory services£92.7 million
Planning and development services£6.1 million
Police servicesnone budgeted
Fire and rescue services£50.9 million
Central services£14.2 million
Other servicesnone budgeted
Total service expenditure£2,114.7 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 Surrey: 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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Showing: Surrey.

People living here
1,255,255 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
42 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
£37,147 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
£754 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
14.7% 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
2.3% 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
£524,334 August 2026 · HM Land RegistryThe average price of a home here in the month shown.
How many years of pay a home costs
10.9 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.
Years in good health: women
66.4 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsHow many years a girl born here can expect to live in good health, at current rates.
Years in good health: men
65.1 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsHow many years a boy born here can expect to live in good health, at current rates.
Greenhouse gases, per person
4.2 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
84.5% 1 January 2026 · OfcomThe share of addresses that can get gigabit broadband (1,000 Mbps).
Public chargers for electric cars
184.8 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
66,645 businesses 2024 · Office for National StatisticsBusinesses with sales or staff in the year.

More figures for Surrey 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

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

Councillors by party: Conservative and Unionist 38, Liberal Democrats 18, Independent / Other 5, Residents Associations of Epsom and Ewell 4, Reform UK 3, Farnham Residents 3, Green Party (E&W) 2, Labour Party 2, Ashtead Independents 1, Vacant 1, Residents for Guildford and Villages 1, Nork Residents' Association 1, Thames Ditton / Weston Green Residents' Association 1, The Molesey Residents Association 1.

Next scheduled council election: 31 March 2027.

All 81 councillors, by ward
  • Scott Kelly (Reform UK) — Addlestone
  • Carla Morson (Liberal Democrats) — Ash
  • Joanne Sexton (Independent / Other) — Ashford
  • Chris Townsend (Ashtead Independents) — Ashtead
  • Richard Tear (Conservative and Unionist) — Bagshot, Windlesham and Chobham
  • Luke Bennett (Conservative and Unionist) — Banstead, Woodmansterne and Chipstead
  • Clare Curran (Conservative and Unionist) — Bookham and Fetcham West
  • Trefor Hogg (Conservative and Unionist) — Camberley East
  • Alan Ashbery (Liberal Democrats) — Camberley West
  • Jeremy Webster (Conservative and Unionist) — Caterham Hill
  • Tony Pearce (Liberal Democrats) — Caterham Valley
  • Mark Nuti (Conservative and Unionist) — Chertsey
  • David Lewis (Conservative and Unionist) — Cobham
  • Liz Townsend (Liberal Democrats) — Cranleigh and Ewhurst
  • Hazel Watson (Liberal Democrats) — Dorking Hills
  • Helyn Clack (Conservative and Unionist) — Dorking Rural
  • Stephen Cooksey (Liberal Democrats) — Dorking South and the Holmwoods
  • Catherine Baart (Green Party (E&W)) — Earlswood and Reigate South
  • Steve Bax (Conservative and Unionist) — East Molesey and Esher
  • Robert King (Labour Party) — Egham
  • Marisa Heath (Conservative and Unionist) — Englefield Green
  • Steven McCormick (Residents Associations of Epsom and Ewell) — Epsom Town and Downs
  • Bernie Muir (Conservative and Unionist) — Epsom West
  • John Beckett (Residents Associations of Epsom and Ewell) — Ewell
  • Eber Kington (Residents Associations of Epsom and Ewell) — Ewell Court, Auriol and Cuddington
  • Andy MacLeod (Farnham Residents) — Farnham Central
  • Catherine Powell (Farnham Residents) — Farnham North
  • Michaela Martin (Farnham Residents) — Farnham South
  • Jonathan Hulley (Conservative and Unionist) — Foxhills, Thorpe and Virginia Water
  • Paul Deach (Conservative and Unionist) — Frimley Green and Mytchett
  • Penny Rivers (Liberal Democrats) — Godalming North
  • Paul Follows (Liberal Democrats) — Godalming South, Milford and Witley
  • Chris Farr (Independent / Other) — Godstone
  • Lance Spencer (Liberal Democrats) — Goldsworth East and Horsell Village
  • George Potter (Liberal Democrats) — Guildford East
  • Julia McShane (Liberal Democrats) — Guildford North
  • Catherine Houston (Liberal Democrats) — Guildford South East
  • Angela Goodwin (Liberal Democrats) — Guildford South West
  • Fiona White (Liberal Democrats) — Guildford West
  • Vacant (Vacant) — Haslemere
  • Edward Hawkins (Conservative and Unionist) — Heatherside and Parkside
  • John O'Reilly (Conservative and Unionist) — Hersham
  • Andy Burton (Liberal Democrats) — Hinchley Wood, Claygate and Oxshott
  • Jordan Beech (Conservative and Unionist) — Horley East
  • Andy Lynch (Reform UK) — Horley West, Salfords and Sidlow
  • Dennis Booth (Residents for Guildford and Villages) — Horsleys
  • Saj Hussain (Conservative and Unionist) — Knaphill and Goldsworth West
  • Maureen Attewell (Conservative and Unionist) — Laleham and Shepperton
  • Tim Hall (Conservative and Unionist) — Leatherhead and Fetcham East
  • Rebecca Jennings-Evans (Conservative and Unionist) — Lightwater, West End and Bisley
  • Lesley Steeds (Conservative and Unionist) — Lingfield
  • Buddhi Weerasinghe (Conservative and Unionist) — Lower Sunbury and Halliford
  • Frank Kelly (Conservative and Unionist) — Merstham and Banstead South
  • Peter Harp (Nork Residents' Association) — Nork and Tattenhams
  • Cameron McIntosh (Conservative and Unionist) — Oxted
  • Jonathan Essex (Green Party (E&W)) — Redhill East
  • Natalie Bramhall (Conservative and Unionist) — Redhill West and Meadvale
  • Victor Lewanski (Independent / Other) — Reigate
  • Matt Furniss (Conservative and Unionist) — Shalford
  • Robert Hughes (Conservative and Unionist) — Shere
  • Sinead Mooney (Conservative and Unionist) — Staines
  • Denise Turner-Stewart (Conservative and Unionist) — Staines South and Ashford West
  • Robert Evans (Labour Party) — Stanwell and Stanwell Moor
  • Harry Boparai (Liberal Democrats) — Sunbury Common and Ashford Common
  • Rebecca Paul (Conservative and Unionist) — Tadworth, Walton and Kingswood
  • Amanda Boote (Independent / Other) — The Byfleets
  • Nick Darby (Thames Ditton / Weston Green Residents' Association) — The Dittons
  • Rachael Lake (Conservative and Unionist) — Walton
  • Ashley Tilling (Liberal Democrats) — Walton South and Oatlands
  • Jacquie Thomson (Reform UK) — Warlingham
  • Kevin Deanus (Conservative and Unionist) — Waverley Eastern Villages
  • David Harmer (Conservative and Unionist) — Waverley Western Villages
  • Jan Mason (Residents Associations of Epsom and Ewell) — West Ewell
  • Ernest Mallett (The Molesey Residents Association) — West Molesey
  • Tim Oliver (Conservative and Unionist) — Weybridge
  • Riasat Khan (Independent / Other) — Woking North
  • Louise Morales (Liberal Democrats) — Woking South
  • Liz Bowes (Conservative and Unionist) — Woking South East
  • Ayesha Azad (Conservative and Unionist) — Woking South West
  • Scott Lewis (Conservative and Unionist) — Woodham and New Haw
  • Keith Witham (Conservative and Unionist) — Worplesdon

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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