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Council Tax Precept 2026/27

The Parish Council receives the majority of its funding from Cornwall Council as part of the Council Tax residents pay to Cornwall Council which is called the precept.

 

You will see on your Council Tax bill a separate line for the Parish Council and that is the amount we receive from your household.  As for everyone, costs are also rising for the Parish Council and as much as the Council try to avoid increasing the precept as we are very aware of the impact of this on residents, this is unfortunately unavoidable if we wish to continue to provide the same level of services. Although each parish in Cornwall will have its own unique needs, priorities and situation; our increase of 8.3% is around the lower end compared to other local parishes.

 

The Parish Council have decided to increase the precept for the coming year, to cover amongst other things increases in the cost of public rubbish/dog waste bin emptying, additional maintenance to parish land and public spaces and improved information signage. 

 

Last year the Parish Council’s precept was £160,000 and for the year 2026/27 the Council have decided to put it up by 8.3% to £173,450. This equates to an increase on a Band D property of £6.10 for a year or 12p a week, the total annual payment from a Band D property towards the Parish Council precept will be £80.04.  Band A properties will have an increase of £4.07 a year and Band H of £12.20 a year. 

 

We thought it would be useful to include below a graphic to show how the weekly contribution from a Band D property to the Parish Council is spent. You’ll see that the largest area is Council operations and wellbeing which includes staff costs. We employ 3 part time members of staff, a Parish Clerk (Debra Roberts), Assistant Parish Clerk (Debbie Searle) and Wellbeing & Information Officer (Cathy Whitmore). They assist residents and the Council and we thought it would be useful to explain more about what they do in their roles.

 

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Debra’s role as Parish Clerk is to advise Councillors on the legal aspects and powers of the Parish Council, she is the person you’ll generally speak to about public rights of way, highways issues, committees, improvement projects and play areas. Debra also attends the Full Parish Council and Committee meetings (except for Planning) and produces the agendas and minutes of these as well as putting together our Connect newsletter, social media and website and working to secure external funding for improvements to our parish facilities.

 

Debbie as Assistant Clerk is the person you’ll speak to about Planning applications in the parish and  she makes sure that when the Parish Council are consulted on application they consider all the relevant planning policies including our Neighbourhood Development Plan and the Council’s consultee comment is submitted on time. Debbie also deals with the Council finances and makes sure all the i’s are dotted and t’s are crossed for our Internal Auditor to ensure we are spending public money in accordance with all the rules and regulations we are bound by.

 

Cathy as our Information & Wellbeing Officer is the member of staff you’ll speak to when you phone or call in to the office, she’s also the person you’ll speak to when requesting a lift from our Volunteer car scheme or if you’d like your prescription collected. Cathy will try to answer any questions residents have or signpost them to other services if this isn’t something that the Parish Council can help with. Cathy also runs the Repair Café and produces the monthly What’s On listing, keeps the MyFeock wellbeing website up to date, runs the Council’s Small Grants funding scheme and can also tell you all about all the different groups that meet in the parish.

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CIL monies (Community Infrastructure Levy) 
The Council are required to publish details of funding they have received via CIL from Cornwall Council. 
The report for 2024/25 can be viewed here
The report for 2023/24 can be viewed here
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