{"id":417976,"date":"2026-02-10T12:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T12:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/417976\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T12:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T12:24:12","slug":"two-south-councils-granted-permission-for-more-than-5-tax-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/417976\/","title":{"rendered":"Two South councils granted permission for more than 5% tax rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The government said the two councils did not have to raise them by as much as 7.5% and 6.75% if they chose not to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BCP Council has forecasted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cvg1yy7vleno\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it will face a \u00a310.5m bill<\/a> for the interest on borrowing needed to provide support and education to children with extra needs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Mike Cox said: &#8220;While at face value this is good news, we must recognise that this simply closes a budget gap we were filling with reserves. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our finances remain tight and pressures on our frontline services continue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At Windsor and Maidenhead the decision follows an increase of 9% last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c2lvw4v701ro\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rising costs of providing services<\/a> for adults needing social care and looking after vulnerable children have put the borough&#8217;s budgets under pressure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Lynne Jones previously said the borough had to raise bills dramatically because historically it had &#8220;some of the lowest council taxes in the country&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The two councils will sign off next year&#8217;s council tax increases in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The government said the two councils did not have to raise them by as much as 7.5% and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-417976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}