Tonbridge & Malling Borough 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. Tonbridge & Malling recycled 48.4% of household waste in 2024-25 — third-best in Kent and well above the England average of 42.0% — though its residual waste (448.7kg per household) is heavier than its recycling rank suggests (England: 513.3kg). Attribution: Conservative + Independent Alliance coalition (Matt Boughton), in office throughout the period.

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: 2 investigations, 2 upheld — 1.5 upheld per 100,000 residents vs the 1.0 district average — with no pre-Ombudsman remedy and timely compliance of 50% vs the 75% district average; 2024-25: 1 upheld of 1, compliance met. Attribution: Conservative + Independent Alliance coalition (Matt Boughton) throughout both years.

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%. 2024/25 outturn: £119k (0.7%) revenue underspend, with £1.1m contributed to the general revenue reserve; the strongest reserves position in Kent — usable reserves £39.9m ≈ 234% of net revenue spend, GROWING £6.2m in the year; auditor: no significant weaknesses on any criterion (all Amber), with the prior-year procurement significant weakness resolved and accounts certified. Capital delivery is the weak component: £2.9m spent against an original £6.9m programme (58% under, on a small programme, with major projects delayed into 2025/26). Council tax: Band D £252.65, 6th-highest of the 12 Kent districts; 5-yr CAGR 2.85% vs 2.64% nationally, with the 2026-27 rise at the cap. Attribution: Conservative + Independent Alliance coalition (Matt Boughton) throughout.

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 spending CSVs current to March 2026 (series from December 2020), councillor allowances, senior salaries, annual pay-policy statement and organisation chart all published on the transparency hub. However the democracy/committee-papers site was unreachable from two independent connections on the audit date — that component is excluded from this score pending a retest, since availability counts toward committee-paper completeness — the contracts register was not verified, and there is no FOI disclosure log or open-data portal. Attribution: audit conducted under the Conservative + Independent Alliance coalition (Matt Boughton).

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. 96.2% of major applications decided in time (above the England average) but only 85.3% of non-majors (below the 90.8% England average), and the highest major appeal-overturn rate in Kent at 6.8% vs 3.1% nationally — still well inside the 10% designation threshold, and volatile on 52 major decisions. Attribution: Conservative + Independent Alliance coalition (Matt Boughton) 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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