Newport City Council regularly consults with local people on a wide range of policies, plans and proposals affecting the local community.
Budget 2025/26
Newport City Council has considered its budget and set out a number of proposals for delivering services in 2025/26.
Areas of proposed investment include:
- £1.86m to assist the current pressures within housing due to the increased demand for homelessness provision. This will support the delivery of statutory services as the council works to transform the way services are delivered in this area.
- A £1.871m temporary investment to fund the Eliminate programme which is working to eliminate private profit from the care of children looked after.
- £1.9m to provide extra additional learning need educational spaces and fund the associated transport service.
- An increase to school budget in cash terms of around 8 per cent, or £11.1m.
- £370k to create response squads within our cleansing and grass cutting services to help deliver on residents’ priorities.
There following savings proposals are out for public consultation:
- A 6.7 per cent increase in council tax is proposed. This proposed increase would ensure that council tax in Newport remains one of the lowest in Wales, with most households seeing an increase of between £1.29 and £1.72 per week (Bands A – C which account for over half of Newport’s chargeable properties).
- A review of community centre provision, with a proposal to offer community groups the opportunity to take over the running of some centres via a community asset transfer.
- A proposal to reduce the number of physical library sites in line with a reduction in demand for physical visits.
- To end production of the council’s Newport Matters newspaper. This is currently distributed to every house in the city six times a year.
- Change short term care beds into long term residential care beds
- Increase in fees for non-statutory pre application development advice
For further information visit our budget webpage.
To submit a written response you can also email changing.services@newport.gov.uk.
