Social Value Ideas for Canterbury City Council

Housing budget for homes and repairs

Cabinet supported the draft Housing Revenue Account budget for 2026/27, including £5m for buying or building new council homes, £1m for decent homes works after stock surveys, £500k for disabled adapt…

“We've put 5 million aside to buy or build new council homes and we've been deliberately um um kind of broad about that opportunity because we don't kn…”

Housing budget and rent rise

The cabinet approved consultation on the draft housing revenue and capital budget. Proposals included a 2.7% council housing rent increase, higher service charges for communal lighting, heating and cl…

“thank you yeah thank you chair uh this report and the appendices a to c contain the draft proposals for the housing revenue and capital budgets for 25…”

Housing rent increase and convergence

The housing revenue account budget proposes a 4.8% rent increase in line with government policy, with additional uncertainty around rent convergence. Officers warned that a government announcement was…

“the main proposals within the report uh focus on uh the annual rent increase and this is heavily constrained by central government policy. So it's pro…”

Council tax set at 2.99%

The council approved the 2026/27 council tax and the wider general fund budget, with a band D rate increase of 2.99%. Members also confirmed the full revenue budget, fees and charges, reserves, capita…

“So just to sort of refresh our mind this is we've already recommended to um a point F. Yeah. So uh recommendation from cabinet on the 9th of February …”

General fund overspend

The quarter 2 budget monitoring report projected a general fund revenue overspend of £175,000 at year end, requiring in-year savings and expenditure controls. Cabinet also noted that the HRA position …

“the document itself sets out the significant variances so I'm not going to um read them all out I'm sure you've read them and they're there if you've …”

Premises licence refused

The licensing subcommittee refused the application for a premises licence at 37 High Street, Canterbury because it was not satisfied the licensing objectives would be upheld and advanced. The decision…

“"we are not satisfied that the uh licensing objectives are going to be upheld or uh advanced uh by this application and therefore we are deciding to a…”

Premises licence granted with conditions

The sub-committee approved the premises licence for Morrisons Local, subject to the nine conditions in the application and an additional requirement to provide an updated premises plan within 14 days.…

“the licensing subcommittee today was considering an application under Section 17 of the licensing act 2003 for a premises license the subcommittee has…”