Precept for 2024/2025

The Parish Council, in common with local residents, is faced with increasing costs for the goods and services we pay for. Additionally, the grant we receive from Durham County Council is being reduced from £1,093 to £597 as a result of DCC's need to also find savings.



Having not increased our precept in recent years, after careful consideration, we have decided that this year an increase is necessary to help us to continue to provide the services and facilities we do. We recognise that any increase will affect local people and so have kept the increase to the lowest level we can which is 1.5%. For example, this is 62p per year for a Band A house or 92p per year for a Band D property.