The budget will be presented to full council later this month (Photo: Newsquest/Pixabay)
Harrow Council looks set to make a council tax hike of almost five per cent as its cabinet approved the budget proposals for 2021/22.
Senior councillors agreed to the suggestions put forward at a meeting yesterday (Thursday, February 11) following a review of the council’s finances.
The proposals include a 4.99 per cent council tax increase, of which three per cent will be ringfenced for adult social care, and the management of a funding gap of around £8 million.
This gap will be covered through some reserves, which Cllr Adam Swersky, who is responsible for finance at Harrow Council, explained had been “specifically set aside” as well as “a further tightening of expenditure”.