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Warwickshire: 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.

Warwickshire County Council: County (upper tier), England, West Midlands. GOV.UK lists it as a county council. ONS code E10000031.

Council website · Publication scheme · Disclosure log

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 Warwickshire for 2026–27: £1,903.86. 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

  • Kingsbury Primary School (primary) — open, but proposed to close; reason recorded: for academy; proposed date 31 March 2027
  • Kingsbury Primary School (primary) — proposed to open; reason recorded: new provision; proposed date 1 April 2027
In the last twelve months: 8 opened (5 academy converter, 2 new provision, 1 academy free school), 7 closed (5 academy converter, 1 closure, 1 result of amalgamation/merger)

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

Warwickshire: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
ServiceBudget
Education services£541.8 million
Highways and transport services£38.0 million
Children's social care£165.8 million
Adult social care£279.5 million
Public health£29.9 million
Housing services (general fund only)£2.4 million
Cultural and related services£10.8 million
Environmental and regulatory services£26.1 million
Planning and development services£9.3 million
Police servicesnone budgeted
Fire and rescue services£33.1 million
Central services£11.5 million
Other servicesnone budgeted
Total service expenditure£1,148.4 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 Warwickshire: 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: Warwickshire.

People living here
644,021 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
£26,869 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
£690 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
19.7% 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
2.7% 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
£308,148 August 2026 · HM Land RegistryThe average price of a home here in the month shown.
How many years of pay a home costs
7.5 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
62.9 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
63.3 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
7.8 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
88.3% 1 January 2026 · OfcomThe share of addresses that can get gigabit broadband (1,000 Mbps).
Public chargers for electric cars
154.2 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
27,800 businesses 2024 · Office for National StatisticsBusinesses with sales or staff in the year.

More figures for Warwickshire 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

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

Councillors by party: Reform UK 19, Liberal Democrats 14, Conservative and Unionist 8, Green Party (E&W) 6, Independent / Other 4, Labour Party 3, Restore Britain 2, Whitnash Residents Association 1.

Next scheduled council election: 3 May 2029.

All 57 councillors, by ward
  • Dean Richards (Conservative and Unionist) — Admirals & Cawston
  • James Norris (Liberal Democrats) — Alcester
  • Wayne Briggs (Reform UK) — Arbury
  • James Crocker (Reform UK) — Arden
  • Robert Gisbourne (Reform UK) — Atherstone
  • Rob Howard (Reform UK) — Attleborough
  • Edward Harris (Independent / Other) — Baddesley & Dordon
  • George Finch (Reform UK) — Bedworth Central
  • Stan Carvell (Reform UK) — Bedworth East
  • Neil Garland (Reform UK) — Bedworth North
  • Chris Morris (Reform UK) — Bedworth West
  • Sarah Feeney (Labour Party) — Benn
  • Cliff Brown (Liberal Democrats) — Bidford & Welford
  • Stephen Pimm (Liberal Democrats) — Bilton & Hillside
  • Senthil Karadiar (Labour Party) — Brownsover & Coton Park
  • Jan Matecki (Independent / Other) — Budbrooke & Bishop's Tachbrook
  • John Waine (Reform UK) — Bulkington & Whitestone
  • Dale Bridgewater (Reform UK) — Camp Hill
  • Robert Aitkenhead (Reform UK) — Coleshill North & Water Orton
  • Scott Cameron (Restore Britain) — Coleshill South & Arley
  • Ben Edwards (Liberal Democrats) — Cubbington & Leek Wootton
  • Dale Keeling (Conservative and Unionist) — Dunsmore & Leam Valley
  • Anne-Marie Sonko (Reform UK) — Earl Craven
  • Jerry Roodhouse (Liberal Democrats) — Eastlands
  • Christopher Kettle (Conservative and Unionist) — Feldon
  • Adrian Warwick (Conservative and Unionist) — Fosse
  • Luke Shingler (Independent / Other) — Galley Common
  • Jennifer Warren (Reform UK) — Hartshill & Mancetter
  • Yousef Dahmash (Conservative and Unionist) — Hillmorton
  • Tracey Drew (Green Party (E&W)) — Kenilworth Park Hill
  • Richard Dickson (Liberal Democrats) — Kenilworth St. John's
  • Chris Mills (Conservative and Unionist) — Kineton & Red Horse
  • Stuart Green (Reform UK) — Kingsbury
  • Mark Stevens (Green Party (E&W)) — Lapworth & West Kenilworth
  • Jonathan Chilvers (Green Party (E&W)) — Leamington Brunswick
  • Max Langer (Liberal Democrats) — Leamington Clarendon
  • Jennifer McAllister (Liberal Democrats) — Leamington Milverton
  • Sarah Boad (Liberal Democrats) — Leamington North
  • Will Roberts (Green Party (E&W)) — Leamington Willes
  • Dan Glover (Reform UK) — New Bilton & Overslade
  • Michael Bannister (Reform UK) — Nuneaton Abbey
  • Darren Cheshire (Reform UK) — Nuneaton East
  • Stephen Shaw (Reform UK) — Polesworth
  • Jo Barker (Conservative and Unionist) — Shipston
  • Andy Crump (Conservative and Unionist) — Southam, Stockton & Napton
  • Nigel Golby (Reform UK) — Stockingford
  • David Curtis (Liberal Democrats) — Stour & the Vale
  • Lorraine Grocott (Liberal Democrats) — Stratford North
  • Kate Rolfe (Liberal Democrats) — Stratford South
  • Steve Albon (Liberal Democrats) — Stratford West
  • Luke Cooper (Restore Britain) — Studley
  • Sam Jones (Independent / Other) — Warwick North
  • Nicki Scott (Green Party (E&W)) — Warwick South
  • John Holland (Labour Party) — Warwick West
  • Keith Kondakor (Green Party (E&W)) — Weddington
  • George Cowcher (Liberal Democrats) — Wellesbourne
  • Judy Falp (Whitnash Residents Association) — Whitnash

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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