For 2025 to 2026 we are expecting to receive an income of £120.7 million and spend £139.7 million, which means the net budget to pay for services is £19.0 million.

We will receive government grants, including Business rates relief grants together with retained Business Rates of £10.2 million, leaving an amount to collect from Council Tax of £8.8 million.

Our share of Council Tax (£8.8 million) funds many services including homelessness, refuse collection and waste recycling, maintaining community spaces and sports pitches, environmental health duties, supporting major projects around the town as well as health and wellbeing initiatives.

The key pressures affecting the budget for 2025 to 2026 are:

• pay (including the increase in employers' National Insurance contributions) and cost prices
• the cost of homelessness and temporary accommodation
• the impact of water neutrality (no net increase in water demand) on development in the borough
• the commercial rental sector, which continues to be very volatile and difficult to predict impacting on the lettings of council properties

Full detail of the our budget can be read in the document below.

Budget requirement for 2024 to 2025 is £19,059,000

Visit our Council Tax changes webpage for a table showing the Crawley Borough Council charge only for each property band (A–H).

The council tax requirements for West Sussex County Council and Sussex Police are shown below.  Please see their website for full details.