Households in Bury face a council tax rise of just over five per cent from April after the authority set its budget. At Wednesday evening’s meeting, the council voted to increase council tax by 2.99 per cent for general council services, plus a two per cent levy to be spent exclusively on social care.
Levies added by the Greater Manchester Mayor, police and fire services add a further 0.2 per cent to the total bill. Council house rents will increase by the Government’s cap of seven per cent.
Money raised from this can only be spent on social housing. To balance the books the council has committed to making £24M of cuts to services including losing 36 jobs from the authority.
