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Budget Insights
The key budget challenges we face and what we are doing to deliver our services to residents and communities in a more efficient way.
Funding for growing communities
Developers contribute the capital funding needed to build new schools, roads and facilities for our growing population but not to the ongoing revenue costs to run, equip and maintain them.
Capital investments such as new schools are examples: while an extension or new building may be part- or fully-funded, responsibility for staffing, equipment, IT and energy costs (known as revenue costs) falls to the council.
Inflation means they are rising without the additional funding needed to cover them.
Funding for growing communities