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Thank you for your participation in the budget consultation.
We appreciate you taking the time to participate in our recent budget consultation. Your feedback is vital in helping us make informed decisions about how to allocate resources and deliver essential services to our community.
This year’s survey resulted in 2,176 responses – comparing favourably to the average of 1,427 responses over the last seven years.
People love Norwich as a place to live – 67% reported being happy/very happy with Norwich as a place to live, work and visit.
The majority of people (64%) are supportive/very supportive of our investment approach to services and major projects for the city.
50% of people were in favour of increasing the city council’s share of council tax by 2.99% to safeguard services while 30% were against this approach.
People were equally happy/unhappy with the way the council delivers its services (33% and 32% respectively).
People were marginally opposed (39%) to the council increasing some of its fees and charges to bring in extra income to fund services compared to being in support of this approach (36%).
Overall, people were similarly happy (30%) versus unhappy (28%) with how the council keeps them informed about the services and benefits it provides.
Delivering your priorities
What we do next year must help to deliver your overall priorities for the future of Norwich.
Last year, for the first time, we went out to the whole city to ask what was important to you and welcomed more than 900 conversations with residents, businesses, and the volunteer and creative sector. They told us we need to be:
An open and modern council
A prosperous Norwich
A fairer Norwich
A climate responsive Norwich
A future-proof Norwich
We’ve used these priorities in our We Are Norwich community-led plan for 2024-29 to steer us through our decision making about how we set our budget for 2025-26.
Our budget pledges to you
Over the past three years we’ve asked which services matter most to you and you’ve consistently told us your top three are:
Parks and green spaces
Waste and recycling
Housing services
We heard your feedback and as a result, we will be making budget pledges in these areas, and others, for 2025-26.
Thank you for your participation in the budget consultation.
We appreciate you taking the time to participate in our recent budget consultation. Your feedback is vital in helping us make informed decisions about how to allocate resources and deliver essential services to our community.
This year’s survey resulted in 2,176 responses – comparing favourably to the average of 1,427 responses over the last seven years.
People love Norwich as a place to live – 67% reported being happy/very happy with Norwich as a place to live, work and visit.
The majority of people (64%) are supportive/very supportive of our investment approach to services and major projects for the city.
50% of people were in favour of increasing the city council’s share of council tax by 2.99% to safeguard services while 30% were against this approach.
People were equally happy/unhappy with the way the council delivers its services (33% and 32% respectively).
People were marginally opposed (39%) to the council increasing some of its fees and charges to bring in extra income to fund services compared to being in support of this approach (36%).
Overall, people were similarly happy (30%) versus unhappy (28%) with how the council keeps them informed about the services and benefits it provides.
Delivering your priorities
What we do next year must help to deliver your overall priorities for the future of Norwich.
Last year, for the first time, we went out to the whole city to ask what was important to you and welcomed more than 900 conversations with residents, businesses, and the volunteer and creative sector. They told us we need to be:
An open and modern council
A prosperous Norwich
A fairer Norwich
A climate responsive Norwich
A future-proof Norwich
We’ve used these priorities in our We Are Norwich community-led plan for 2024-29 to steer us through our decision making about how we set our budget for 2025-26.
Our budget pledges to you
Over the past three years we’ve asked which services matter most to you and you’ve consistently told us your top three are:
Parks and green spaces
Waste and recycling
Housing services
We heard your feedback and as a result, we will be making budget pledges in these areas, and others, for 2025-26.
