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
Reporting the findings
Thank you to everyone who shared their views as part of this consultation. All responses have now been carefully analysed.
The findings are now going through the council decision making process so that elected members can consider what you have told us.
The consultation findings and recommendations will be reported to:
This webpage will be kept updated as the findings progress through these meetings.
The budget consultation summary report is available below.