Budget 2026-27
Please tell us your priorities for council services and have your say in our budget survey 2026/27.
Your views will help shape the budget for the next financial year.
BCP Council, like all other local authorities, is operating within an extremely challenging financial environment. The surge in demand for our services continues to grow and the funding we have available to provide these services has simply not kept up with this demand. Council Tax rates, for example, have not kept up with inflation.
Please read the information document to find out more about the council's financial situation, what we have done so far to save money and which services we spend the most and least on.
We are asking you to imagine that you have to set the council's budget for the next few years, which services would you want to spend more on? and which services do you think could be reduced?
Information Document
Key dates
Consultation starts: 18 November 2025
Consultation ends: 14 December 2025
The views you give us now will help inform our budget setting process for the next financial year.
The consultation will close at 11:59pm on Sunday 14 December 2025.
Phases
Budget Survey
Have your say on how your council budget is spent
We are asking residents, council service users, community groups, Town and Parish Councils, businesses, and partner organisations for their views to help us set the budget for 2026/27.
Please read the consultation document before completing this questionnaire.
Please leave any question blank that you do not wish to answer.
If you have any questions or require an alternative language or format, please email researchandconsultation@bcpcouncil.gov.uk giving your name, address and telephone number.
Please return completed paper copies of the survey to any BCP Council library.
The consultation will close at 11.59pm on Sunday 14 December.