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Worcestershire: 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.

Worcestershire County Council: County (upper tier), England, West Midlands. GOV.UK lists it as a county council. ONS code E10000034.

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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 Worcestershire for 2026–27: £1,760.80. 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: 3 opened (2 academy converter, 1 new provision), 3 closed (2 academy converter, 1 closure)

Beoley First School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 30 September 2025
Malvern St James — closed; reason recorded: closure, 31 August 2026
Meadows First School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 March 2026
Beoley First School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 October 2025
Meadows First School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 April 2026
Southwell Education Ltd — open; reason recorded: new provision, 26 August 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 Worcestershire reported it to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in England.

Worcestershire: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
Service	Budget
Education services	£409.7 million
Highways and transport services	£38.6 million
Children's social care	£173.6 million
Adult social care	£284.2 million
Public health	£41.1 million
Housing services (general fund only)	£1.8 million
Cultural and related services	£13.4 million
Environmental and regulatory services	£45.6 million
Planning and development services	£3.1 million
Police services	none budgeted
Fire and rescue services	none budgeted
Central services	£8.3 million
Other services	£12.2 million
Total service expenditure	£1,031.6 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).

Worcestershire in numbers

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

Total population: 621,360 people 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMid-year estimate of the total number of people
Median age: 45 years 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMedian age of people
Gross disposable household income per head: £25,444 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage income per person (£) after taxes and direct benefits
Gross median weekly pay: £613 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsGross median weekly pay based on where people live (£)
Children in relative poverty after housing costs: 23.5% 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: 3.0% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsPercentage of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming unemployment-related benefits
Average house price: £287,268 July 2026 · HM Land RegistryAverage monthly price of a property (£)
Housing affordability ratio (residence-based): 7.8 affordability ratio 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsRatio of median house price to median gross annual residence-based earnings
Female healthy life expectancy: 63.1 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: 63.3 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: 5.3 tCO2e per capita 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) per capita
Gigabit capable broadband: 84.4% 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: 139.2 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: 26,930 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: Reform UK, as a minority administration. Open Council Data (public domain).

Councillors by party: Reform UK 25, Conservative and Unionist 12, Green Party (E&W) 8, Liberal Democrats 7, Independent / Other 3, Labour Party 2.

Next scheduled council election: 3 May 2029.

All 57 councillors, by ward

Alan Bailes (Independent / Other) — Alvechurch
Peter Turner (Reform UK) — Beacon
Alan Amos (Reform UK) — Bedwardine
Dan Morehead (Conservative and Unionist) — Bewdley
Seb James (Conservative and Unionist) — Bowbrook
Adrian Hardman (Conservative and Unionist) — Breddon
Emma Kearsey (Conservative and Unionist) — Broadway
Josh Robinson (Liberal Democrats) — Bromsgrove Central
Sam Evans (Liberal Democrats) — Bromsgrove East
Sam Ammar (Liberal Democrats) — Bromsgrove South
Nik Price (Reform UK) — Bromsgrove West
Marcus Hart (Conservative and Unionist) — Chaddersley
Mel Allcott (Liberal Democrats) — Claines
Karen May (Conservative and Unionist) — Clent Hills
Jenny Shaw (Reform UK) — Cookley, Wolverley & Wribbenhall
Martin Allen (Green Party (E&W)) — Croome
Dan Birch (Conservative and Unionist) — Droitwich East
Richard Morris (Conservative and Unionist) — Droitwich West
Sam Bastow (Reform UK) — Evesham North West
Michele Hulme (Reform UK) — Evesham South
Mel Fordington (Conservative and Unionist) — Hallow
Satinder Bell (Reform UK) — Harvington
Hannah Robson (Green Party (E&W)) — Littletons
Malcolm Victory (Green Party (E&W)) — Malvern Chase
Paul Bennett (Liberal Democrats) — Malvern Langland
Chris McSweeny (Liberal Democrats) — Malvern Link
Natalie McVey (Green Party (E&W)) — Malvern Trinity
Dave Aubrey (Reform UK) — Nunnery
Tony Miller (Conservative and Unionist) — Ombersley
Dan Boatright-Greene (Liberal Democrats) — Pershore
Tom Wells (Independent / Other) — Powick & Longdon
Jabba Riaz (Labour Party) — Rainbow Hill & Fort Royal
Dave Edmonds (Reform UK) — Redditch Central
Richard Tudge (Reform UK) — Redditch Central
David Taylor (Independent / Other) — Redditch East
Jo Monk (Reform UK) — Redditch East
Roger Bennett (Reform UK) — Redditch South
Sue Eacock (Reform UK) — Redditch South
Ashley Monk (Reform UK) — Redditch West
Stephen Foster (Reform UK) — Redditch West
Tor Pingree (Green Party (E&W)) — Riverside
Anthony Upton (Reform UK) — St Barnabas
Bill Hopkins (Reform UK) — St Chads
Mark Crosby (Reform UK) — St Georges
Richard Udall (Labour Party) — St John
Matthew Jones (Reform UK) — St Johns
Louis Stephen (Green Party (E&W)) — St Peter
Rob Wharton (Reform UK) — St Peters
Matt Jenkins (Green Party (E&W)) — St Stephen
Karl Perks (Reform UK) — Stourport Areley Kings & Riverside
Ian Cresswell (Reform UK) — Stourport Mitton
Justin Bowen (Reform UK) — Tenbury
Linda Robinson (Conservative and Unionist) — Upton Snodsbury
Owen Cleary (Reform UK) — Warndon & Elbury Park
Andrew Cross (Green Party (E&W)) — Warndon Villages
Mark Dunkley (Reform UK) — Woodvale
Adam Kent (Conservative and Unionist) — Wythall

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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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.