Protecting frontline services and investing in what matters to residents

Protecting frontline services and helping the most vulnerable are at the heart of the Royal Borough of Greenwich’s proposed budget for 2023/2024, which is subject to Cabinet and Full Council approval.

If agreed, the Council will spend its new budget on protecting front line services and investing in key areas that will make a real difference for residents, including:

• £1.8 million for waste services and keeping streets and town centres clean

• almost £1million to continue supporting the most vulnerable with the cost-of-living crisis through Greenwich Supports

• £1 million for our parks and open spaces

• £500,000 new hardship fund for council tenants

Cllr Anthony Okereke, Leader of the Royal Borough of Greenwich, said: “For over a decade austerity has decimated our budgets, we then battled a pandemic, and we are now dealing with unprecedented inflation. Local councils across the country are all faced with the same impossible decisions, with some even facing bankruptcy.

“Government funding is based out of date formulas and old data about our population. Residents in Royal Greenwich deserves more funding than we are getting. That’s why I’ve written to the Prime Minister to call for fairer funding, and I’m asking residents to join me by co-signing my letter.”

You can see the plans in full at royalgreenwich.gov.uk/budgetproposals.

Co-sign our letter to the Prime Minister: royalgreenwich.gov.uk/funding-for-greenwich