Canterbury City Council

Scored on the two DEFRA-published components — recycling rate and residual household waste, FY 2024-25 final data (England averages: 42.0% / 513.3kg per household) — with the remaining components (missed-bin reports, complaint resolution time, service consistency) pending data ingest. Canterbury recycled 43.0% of household waste in 2024-25 — above the England average of 42.0%, 7th of the 13 Kent waste-collection authorities — with residual waste of 398.2kg per household vs 513.3kg nationally. Attribution: Labour–Liberal Democrat coalition (Alan Baldock), in office throughout the period (the coalition collapsed in May 2026, after this data window).

as of 2026-07-02 · source

Small-numbers caveat: district-tier LGSCO investigation counts are tiny (0–4 a year) and a single case can swing the uphold percentage from 0% to 100%, so this score rests on process indicators — upheld volume per 100,000 residents vs the 1.0 district average, remedies offered before the Ombudsman, and compliance with recommendations — across 2025-26 and 2024-25, never on the raw uphold percentage alone. 2025-26 figures precede the LGSCO annual letters (due ~July 2026) and may be revised. 2025-26: 3 investigations, 3 upheld — 1.9 upheld per 100,000 residents vs the 1.0 district average — with a remedy already offered pre-Ombudsman in 1 of 3 (33% vs the 15% average) and 100% timely compliance; 2024-25: 2 upheld of 3, near the district norm. Attribution: Labour–Liberal Democrat coalition (Alan Baldock) throughout both Ombudsman years, which end before the May 2026 coalition collapse.

as of 2026-07-02 · source

Weighted across the six published components: revenue budget variance 25%, capital programme delivery 20%, reserves & Section 114 risk 20%, external auditor VfM judgement 15%, council tax positioning 10%, council tax trajectory 10%. 2025/26 provisional outturn: a near-perfect £16k underspend on the £13.6m net General Fund budget (the second consecutive year within ~£20k of budget); but 52% of the General Fund capital programme slipped (£6.3m delivered of £14.3m, carried forward across all service blocks); General Fund reserve £3.1m, just above the council's own £3.0m recommended minimum, with the budgeted £0.4m reserve use taken as planned; auditor: no significant weaknesses (financial sustainability Amber with one improvement recommendation — develop a long-term savings programme; governance and value-for-money Green). Council tax: Band D £254.43, 5th-highest of the 12 Kent districts; 5-yr CAGR 2.84% vs 2.64% nationally. Attribution: Labour–Liberal Democrat coalition (Alan Baldock) throughout the 2025/26 year; the coalition collapsed in May 2026, after the period.

as of 2026-07-03 · source

Fixed-date website audit (2026-07-03) against the Transparency Code checklist: spending-data currency and format, contracts register, councillor allowances, interests, committee papers, senior pay, open data, FOI disclosure log. Items not individually verified this quarter are scored neutrally and flagged. Monthly all-spend data current to May 2026 with five years of monthly archive, contracts over £75,000 on the Kent Business Portal, councillor allowances and live committee papers. No FOI disclosure-log statistics page beyond the search tool, no open-data portal, and senior-pay publication was not individually verified this quarter. Attribution: audit conducted under the Labour minority administration (Alan Baldock), following the May 2026 coalition collapse.

as of 2026-07-03 · source

Scored against the England averages (majors in time 91.0%, non-majors 90.8%, major appeal overturns 3.1%) over the 24 months to March 2026 (speed) and June 2025 (appeal quality), from MHCLG designation-regime tables; the enforcement-trend component (15%) is pending and the three measured components are re-weighted pro rata. The national "in time" measure includes agreed extensions of time. The weakest planning speed in Kent: 84.8% of major applications and 75.8% of non-majors decided in time over the 24-month window — the non-major figure is 15 points below the England average and the only Kent result within 10 points of the 70% national designation threshold — though appeal quality is good, with 2.3% of major decisions overturned vs 3.1% for England. Attribution: Labour–Liberal Democrat coalition (Alan Baldock) throughout the April 2024 – March 2026 window.

as of 2026-07-02 · source

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as of 2026-09-29

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