Does Wandsworth put a Sustainable Communities Act proposal to the Secretary of State by 27 Nov?
BinaryResolves 27 Nov 2026
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Your forecast
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Resolves 27 Nov 2026
How this resolves
The market resolves on confirmation on wandsworth.gov.uk or gov.uk that a proposal under the Sustainable Communities Act 2007 has been submitted to the Secretary of State by 27 November 2026; a resident consultation or a letter to ministers does not count. If that source has not published in time, PoliticsHome and BBC News settle it.
The pattern behind it
7 of 8
Seven of the last eight requests to break the council tax limit were granted: Shropshire, North Somerset and Worcestershire at an extra 4 points, Trafford, Windsor and Maidenhead and Warrington at 2.5, and Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at 1.75, all for 2026-27. The eighth, Hampshire's 14.99 per cent for 2025-26, was refused. The full record since 2024-25 is seventeen of twenty granted, with Slough and Cheshire East the other refusals, and the largest grant 10 per cent. The limitation to state plainly is that all twenty decisions were taken by one department applying one published test, so they are closer to one decision-maker's revealed policy than to twenty independent trials.
Councils that asked to go above the limit usually got a yes. We looked at every request by an English council for its own higher limit with a public outcome in the three yearly rounds from 2024-25 to 2026-27. We asked whether ministers granted a higher limit, at any level. Twenty requests are on record, and seventeen were granted. The eight most recent are shown below.
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