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Consultation has concluded
Residents and businesses are invited to have their say on the Council's spending priorities for the next year.
The Council’s finances have started to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic, but central government support that helped to address this and to provide funding for the community to recover has now stopped. In 2022/2023 we have renewed growth in local sources of income such as parking and planning fees so the Councils Financial position remains sound.
Looking further ahead, the financial outlook for Maidstone Borough Council (MBC) is uncertain, given the lasting impact of the UK economy. With inflation likely to affect to the costs of services and at the same time there are constraints on the capacity of the council to recoup these costs, particularly if the government continues to limit the level of Council Tax increases to 2%.
This means that we may have to make some difficult decisions in the near future. Before we do this, we would like to hear your views on:
Spending priorities
Use of Services
Living in Maidstone
It's important that we understand what your views are so they can be taken into account as we consider the budget for the coming financial year.
How Can you Get involved?
Survey- Complete our short survey on spending priorities and the Council's budget for 2023/24.
Survey takes about 3 to 6 minutes to complete.
Survey closes: 20 November 2022.
What happens next
Your responses will be considered by Councillors at Committee meetings taking place over the next couple of months before the budget is debated by Full Council 22 February 2023.
Residents and businesses are invited to have their say on the Council's spending priorities for the next year.
The Council’s finances have started to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic, but central government support that helped to address this and to provide funding for the community to recover has now stopped. In 2022/2023 we have renewed growth in local sources of income such as parking and planning fees so the Councils Financial position remains sound.
Looking further ahead, the financial outlook for Maidstone Borough Council (MBC) is uncertain, given the lasting impact of the UK economy. With inflation likely to affect to the costs of services and at the same time there are constraints on the capacity of the council to recoup these costs, particularly if the government continues to limit the level of Council Tax increases to 2%.
This means that we may have to make some difficult decisions in the near future. Before we do this, we would like to hear your views on:
Spending priorities
Use of Services
Living in Maidstone
It's important that we understand what your views are so they can be taken into account as we consider the budget for the coming financial year.
How Can you Get involved?
Survey- Complete our short survey on spending priorities and the Council's budget for 2023/24.
Survey takes about 3 to 6 minutes to complete.
Survey closes: 20 November 2022.
What happens next
Your responses will be considered by Councillors at Committee meetings taking place over the next couple of months before the budget is debated by Full Council 22 February 2023.
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Results
A total of 1332 people responded to the Budget Survey 2022.
Findings
Environmental Services was the most used service mandatory service and the most important mandatory service with 96% and 87% responding this way respectively.
The most common mandatory service that people felt should be reduced was Democratic & Electoral Services with 936 answering this way.
87% of respondents told us they have used Parking Services making it the most used discretionary service. While Parks and Open Spaces was deemed at the most important services (87%).
Markets and Civic events were most common discretionary services that people felt should be reduced with 431 and 420 answering this way respectively.
Infrastructure including flooding preventions remained the top investment priority for the third year in a row.
Overall satisfaction with the local area as a place to live has increased from 51.0% in 2021 to 57.8%.
The full report on the result of the Budget Survey 2022 can be viewed here.
Lifecycle
Open
Budget Survey 2022 has finished this stage
This consultation is open for contributions.
Under Review
Budget Survey 2022 has finished this stage
Contributions to this consultation are closed for evaluation and review. The project team will report back on key outcomes.
Final report
Budget Survey 2022 is currently at this stage
The final outcomes of the consultation are documented here. This may include a summary of all contributions collected as well as recommendations for future action.
