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Detailed Revenue Budget 2026/27

 

 

Meeting: 26/02/2026 - Council (Item 159)

159 Detailed Budget and Medium Term Financial Strategy pdf icon PDF 640 KB

Report to follow

Additional documents:

Minutes:

As required by the Local Authorities (Standing Orders)(England) Regulations 2001 (as amended), the Council was required to hold a recorded vote on the substantive Revenue Budget.

 

For

Councillors Dunn, Barker, Bateson, Beatty, Beecher, Boparai, Burrell, Button, Caplin, S Doran, Geach, Geraci, Gibson, Grant, Gyawali, Lee, Neall, Nichols, Sexton, Turner, Williams – 21 votes

Against

Councillors Clarke, Howkins, Saliagopoulos, Woodward – 4 votes

Abstain

Councillors Arnold, Attewell, Bhadye, Bing Dong, Boughtflower, Buck, Mathur, Mooney, Rutherford, Weerasinghe – 10 votes

 

Council resolved to:

 

1.    Approve the General Fund Revenue Budget for 2026/27 including:

 

a)    The General Fund Budget Requirement of £19.318m for 2026/27

b)    Growth and pressures of £1.252m for 2026/27 and

c)    Proposed savings of £5.752m for 2026/27

 

2.    Approve an increase in the Council’s element of the Council Tax for a band D property by £6.64 per annum for 2026/27 (2.90%), giving a band D Council Tax of £235.50 per year, excluding the precepts from Surrey County Council and the Surrey Police and Crime Commissioner.

 

3.    Notes the following Council Tax increases and precepts as detailed in Appendix I:

 

 

a)    Surrey County Council has increased Council Tax for a band D property to £1,938.42 per annum, a 4.99% increase on 2025/26, resulting in a precept of £80,014,295.

 

b)    The Police and Crime Commissioner for Surrey has increased Council Tax for a band D property to £352.57 per annum, a £15 or 4.4% increase on 2025/26, resulting in a precept of £14,553.420.

 

c)    This results in an overall band D Council Tax of £2,526.49 for Spelthorne residents, an increase of £113.71 (4.5%) per annum.

 

d)    The Spelthorne Borough Council element of the Council Tax is 9.3% of the total bill for Spelthorne residents

 

 

4.    Approve the calculations for determining the Council Tax requirement for the year 2026/27 in accordance with the Local Government Finance Act 1992 as set out in the Council Tax Resolution in Appendix I,

 

5.    Approve the Fees and Charges for 2026/27 as set out in Appendix H. Please note that the 2026/27 Annual Charge for a 240ltr Green Waste Bin shown on Page 115 of the report should be £80.00 as was agreed at the E & S Committee.

 

6.    Approve the continuation of the complete disregard of war pensions/armed forces pension income from benefit calculations as set out in paragraph 2.22 of the report