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Tameside: 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.

Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council: Metropolitan district (unitary), England, North West; part of the GMCA combined authority. GOV.UK lists it as a unitary council. ONS code E08000008.

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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 Tameside for 2026–27: £2,007.38 of a £2,447.21 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: 6 opened (4 academy converter, 2 new provision), 4 closed (4 academy converter)

Broadbottom Church of England Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 28 February 2026
Gee Cross Holy Trinity CofE (VC) Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 28 February 2026
Mottram CofE Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 March 2026
St Stephen's CofE Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 28 February 2026
Broadbottom Church of England Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 March 2026
Gee Cross Holy Trinity CofE Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 March 2026
Hanthorn House School — open; reason recorded: new provision, 14 September 2026
Minds Education — open; reason recorded: new provision, 8 April 2026
Mottram CofE Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 April 2026
St Stephen's CofE 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 Tameside reported it to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in England.

Tameside: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
Service	Budget
Education services	£188.9 million
Highways and transport services	£8.6 million
Children's social care	£108.2 million
Adult social care	£111.5 million
Public health	£20.7 million
Housing services (general fund only)	£9.9 million
Cultural and related services	£10.2 million
Environmental and regulatory services	£12.8 million
Planning and development services	£5.7 million
Police services	none budgeted
Fire and rescue services	none budgeted
Central services	£11.2 million
Other services	none budgeted
Total service expenditure	£487.6 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).

Tameside in numbers

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

Total population: 239,643 people 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMid-year estimate of the total number of people
Median age: 39 years 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMedian age of people
Gross disposable household income per head: £20,268 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage income per person (£) after taxes and direct benefits
Gross median weekly pay: £604 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsGross median weekly pay based on where people live (£)
Children in relative poverty after housing costs: 32.5% 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: 4.7% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsPercentage of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming unemployment-related benefits
Average house price: £209,723 July 2026 · HM Land RegistryAverage monthly price of a property (£)
Housing affordability ratio (residence-based): 6.2 affordability ratio 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsRatio of median house price to median gross annual residence-based earnings
Female healthy life expectancy: 56.0 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: 55.2 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: 3.1 tCO2e per capita 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) per capita
Gigabit capable broadband: 95.1% 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: 59.3 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: 7,050 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

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

Councillors by party: Labour Party 25, Reform UK 19, Independent / Other 8, Conservative and Unionist 5.

Next scheduled council election: 6 May 2027.

All 57 councillors, by ward

Keiron Lawrence (Reform UK) — Ashton Hurst
Mike Glover (Labour Party) — Ashton Hurst
Mohammed Karim (Labour Party) — Ashton Hurst
Andrew McLaren (Labour Party) — Ashton St Michael's
Danny Carr (Reform UK) — Ashton St Michael's
Jean Drennan (Labour Party) — Ashton St Michael's
Raymond Dunning (Reform UK) — Ashton Waterloo
Sangita Patel (Labour Party) — Ashton Waterloo
Vimal Choksi (Labour Party) — Ashton Waterloo
Charlotte Martin (Independent / Other) — Audenshaw
Kim Roberts (Reform UK) — Audenshaw
Teresa Smith (Labour Party) — Audenshaw
Allison Gwynne (Labour Party) — Denton North East
Aron Webb (Reform UK) — Denton North East
Vincent Ricci (Independent / Other) — Denton North East
Audra Murray (Reform UK) — Denton South
George Newton (Independent / Other) — Denton South
Jack Naylor (Independent / Other) — Denton South
Dan Bennett (Reform UK) — Denton West
George Jones (Labour Party) — Denton West
Michael Smith (Labour Party) — Denton West
Caroline England (Reform UK) — Droylsden East
David Mills (Labour Party) — Droylsden East
Laura Boyle (Labour Party) — Droylsden East
Barrie Holland (Independent / Other) — Droylsden West
Gerald Cooney (Independent / Other) — Droylsden West
Sharon Barker (Reform UK) — Droylsden West
Jackie Lane (Labour Party) — Dukinfield
James Rhodes (Reform UK) — Dukinfield
Naila Sharif (Labour Party) — Dukinfield
Eleanor Wills (Labour Party) — Dukinfield Stalybridge
Jake Frater (Reform UK) — Dukinfield Stalybridge
Leanne Feeley (Labour Party) — Dukinfield Stalybridge
Andrea Colbourne (Conservative and Unionist) — Hyde Godley
Joe Kitchen (Labour Party) — Hyde Godley
Mark Beese (Reform UK) — Hyde Godley
Helen Bowden (Labour Party) — Hyde Newton
Hugh Roderick (Labour Party) — Hyde Newton
Sam Mooney (Reform UK) — Hyde Newton
Chris Halligan (Conservative and Unionist) — Hyde Werneth
Christopher Stones (Reform UK) — Hyde Werneth
Phil Chadwick (Conservative and Unionist) — Hyde Werneth
Allan Hopwood (Reform UK) — Longdendale
Greg McNally (Reform UK) — Longdendale
Jacqueline Owen (Labour Party) — Longdendale
Gary Roylance (Reform UK) — Mossley
Jack Homer (Labour Party) — Mossley
Stephen Homer (Labour Party) — Mossley
Atta Ul-Rasool (Labour Party) — St Peter's
Joyce Bowerman (Labour Party) — St Peter's
Kaleel Khan (Independent / Other) — St Peter's
Christine Beardmore (Labour Party) — Stalybridge North
Liam Duff (Reform UK) — Stalybridge North
Steven Barton (Independent / Other) — Stalybridge North
David Tilbrook (Conservative and Unionist) — Stalybridge South
Doreen Dickinson (Conservative and Unionist) — Stalybridge South
Jenny Ardron-Adams (Reform UK) — Stalybridge South

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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