{"id":676635,"date":"2026-01-06T01:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/676635\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T01:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:26:17","slug":"stoke-on-trent-council-tax-set-to-rise-amid-plans-to-save-31m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/676635\/","title":{"rendered":"Stoke-on-Trent council tax set to rise amid plans to save \u00a331m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Public consultation on the draft budget runs until 9 February before the proposals are presented to the full council for a decision on 26 February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a foreword to the consultation document, the leader of the Labour-led council Jane Ashworth said the past decade had been &#8220;incredibly difficult&#8221; for Stoke-on-Trent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the council was committed to &#8220;getting the basics right&#8221; and &#8220;investing in things that matter&#8221;, including in flood prevention work, enforcement against fly-tipping and bringing empty homes back into use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our ambition remains to create a city that is strong, growing and works for everyone,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We remain absolutely committed to working in partnership to drive this growth, provide opportunity, remove barriers to opportunity and build stronger, safer communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Public consultation on the draft budget runs until 9 February before the proposals are presented to the full&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-676635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}