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Wolverhampton: 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.

City of Wolverhampton Council: Metropolitan district (unitary), England, West Midlands; part of the WMCA combined authority. GOV.UK lists it as a unitary council. ONS code E08000031.

Council website

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 Wolverhampton for 2026–27: £2,209.30 of a £2,538.99 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: 4 opened (2 new provision, 2 academy converter), 2 closed (2 academy converter)

Uplands Junior School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 March 2026
Westacre Infant School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 30 November 2025
Kingsley Academy — open; reason recorded: new provision, 12 March 2026
Park Lodge School — open; reason recorded: new provision, 15 October 2025
Uplands Junior School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 April 2026
Westacre Infant School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 December 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 Wolverhampton reported it to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in England.

Wolverhampton: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
Service	Budget
Education services	£203.5 million
Highways and transport services	£10.1 million
Children's social care	£97.8 million
Adult social care	£147.4 million
Public health	£30.2 million
Housing services (general fund only)	£14.3 million
Cultural and related services	£17.9 million
Environmental and regulatory services	£26.9 million
Planning and development services	£5.2 million
Police services	none budgeted
Fire and rescue services	none budgeted
Central services	£14.0 million
Other services	£24.2 million
Total service expenditure	£591.4 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).

Wolverhampton in numbers

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

Total population: 281,251 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: £18,493 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage income per person (£) after taxes and direct benefits
Gross median weekly pay: £621 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsGross median weekly pay based on where people live (£)
Children in relative poverty after housing costs: 37.8% 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: 6.9% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsPercentage of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming unemployment-related benefits
Average house price: £220,559 July 2026 · HM Land RegistryAverage monthly price of a property (£)
Housing affordability ratio (residence-based): 6.1 affordability ratio 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsRatio of median house price to median gross annual residence-based earnings
Female healthy life expectancy: 58.6 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: 59.2 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: 3.2 tCO2e per capita 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) per capita
Gigabit capable broadband: 98.2% 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: 68.6 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: 9,480 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

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

Councillors by party: Labour Party 35, Reform UK 13, Conservative and Unionist 10, Independent / Other 2.

Next scheduled council election: 6 May 2027.

All 60 councillors, by ward

Anita Stanley (Reform UK) — Bilston North
Leigh New (Labour Party) — Bilston North
Linda Leach (Labour Party) — Bilston North
Micky Thomas (Reform UK) — Bilston South
Rashpal Kaur (Labour Party) — Bilston South
Stephen Simkins (Labour Party) — Bilston South
Bhupinder Gakhal (Labour Party) — Blakenhall
Sally Green (Labour Party) — Blakenhall
Tersaim Singh (Labour Party) — Blakenhall
Paul Appleby (Conservative and Unionist) — Bushbury North
Simon Bennett (Conservative and Unionist) — Bushbury North
Susan Lawrence (Reform UK) — Bushbury North
Armin Berenjian (Reform UK) — Bushbury South & Low Hill
Paul Sweet (Labour Party) — Bushbury South & Low Hill
Paula Brookfield (Labour Party) — Bushbury South & Low Hill
Dave Evans (Reform UK) — East Park
Lovinyer Daley (Labour Party) — East Park
Steve Russell (Labour Party) — East Park
Jennifer Cockayne (Labour Party) — Ettingshall North
Jeszemma Howl (Labour Party) — Ettingshall North
Zee Russell (Labour Party) — Ettingshall North
Harbinder Singh (Labour Party) — Ettingshall South & Spring Vale
Lamina Lloyd (Labour Party) — Ettingshall South & Spring Vale
Rob Greenway (Reform UK) — Ettingshall South & Spring Vale
Steve Evans (Labour Party) — Fallings Park
Stu Goldsmith (Reform UK) — Fallings Park
Valerie Evans (Labour Party) — Fallings Park
Asha Mattu (Labour Party) — Graiseley
Gurbax Kaur (Labour Party) — Graiseley
Jacqueline Sweetman (Labour Party) — Graiseley
Jasbir Jaspal (Labour Party) — Heath Town
Jaspreet Jaspal (Labour Party) — Heath Town
Rob Siarkiewicz (Labour Party) — Heath Town
Ben Evans (Labour Party) — Merry Hill
Imre Stanley (Reform UK) — Merry Hill
Wendy Dalton (Independent / Other) — Merry Hill
Alan Butt (Labour Party) — Oxley
Barbara McGarrity (Labour Party) — Oxley
Joe Berg (Reform UK) — Oxley
Claire Darke (Independent / Other) — Park
Craig Collingswood (Labour Party) — Park
Muhammad Nasim (Labour Party) — Park
Celia Hibbert (Reform UK) — Penn
Paul Singh (Conservative and Unionist) — Penn
Stephanie Haynes (Conservative and Unionist) — Penn
Iqra Tahir (Labour Party) — St Peters
Obaida Ahmed (Labour Party) — St Peters
Qaiser Azeem (Labour Party) — St Peters
Robert Maddox (Conservative and Unionist) — Tettenhall Regis
Sohail Khan (Conservative and Unionist) — Tettenhall Regis
Udey Singh (Conservative and Unionist) — Tettenhall Regis
Jonathan Crofts (Conservative and Unionist) — Tettenhall Wightwick
Sally Garner (Conservative and Unionist) — Tettenhall Wightwick
Wendy Thompson (Conservative and Unionist) — Tettenhall Wightwick
Mary Bateman (Labour Party) — Wednesfield North
Philip Bateman (Labour Party) — Wednesfield North
Simon Kelsey (Reform UK) — Wednesfield North
Christopher Edmunds (Reform UK) — Wednesfield South
Corey Kendrick (Reform UK) — Wednesfield South
Jacqui Coogan (Labour Party) — Wednesfield 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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Cite this page

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Every council page has the same five headings in the same order. Sources are the council’s own publications and official statistics. Council list: mySociety, UK Local Authorities (CC BY 4.0) and WhatDoTheyKnow authorities (CC BY-SA 4.0); council websites, tiers and service links: GOV.UK (Open Government Licence); codes: ONS Code History Database (Open Government Licence). Corrections: hello@whatsittome.org.