Your Council Tax is made up of contributions to your local councils (Suffolk County Council, East Suffolk Council, Lowestoft Town Council and Suffolk Police.)

The money raised through the Council Tax helps manage and develop services and assets in your town and deliver on our commitments to you.

For 2025-2026 Lowestoft Town Council's budget will be £2,413,263.  For a Band D property this is £181.23 per year.  This is a 13% increase on the cost to each household compared to the 2024-2025 precept (£2,090,222 which was £160.38 for Band D).

This equates to £3.49 per week for a Band D property, and provides:

• Free-to-access Bulky Waste Collection Scheme

• Food and Social Relief funding and Grant funding to local organisations and charities

• Maintenance of your local parks and open spaces, including investing in improvements to these

• Free-to-access sports and fitness activities alongside free use of our sports facilities

• A full calendar of free-to-access events throughout the year

• Support to the Marina Theatre, providing a leisure and cultural offer to the Town.

Writing about the Town Council's budget for 2025/26, the Mayor of Lowestoft, Cllr Nasima Begum said:

"As Lowestoft Town Council enters its ninth year since being formed, it is amazing to think how far we have come in delivering our ambitions for Lowestoft.

In 2024, we continued our work to bring the Town Hall back into community use with construction expected to start in 2025, saw major refurbishment on the Marina Theatre start, and partnered with the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) to see all of our tennis facilities refurbished whilst keeping them free-to-access. We’ve also continued to grow our dedicated team of staff as we bring more of our grounds maintenance work in-house and bring a wider range of events and activities to the town.

2025 will see us deliver more for the people of Lowestoft. Over the coming year, we have plans to continue our schedule of play area improvements with Thirlmere Walk receiving a refurbishment, deliver more free-to-access events and activities (including Lowestoft Pride, VE Day and free sports sessions), and make our successful trial of the Bulky Waste Collection Scheme for residents of Lowestoft a permanent service to help reduce fly-tipping and restore pride in our town.

We have also increased our Food and Social Relief budget which has supported many food banks and pantries over the past year, whilst also maintaining our Community Grants budget to support local organisations.

There are many ways for people to engage with the Town Council, whether it be by attending meetings in-person or online, coming along to our events or activities, or interacting with us on social media. Everyone is welcome to share their views and ideas as we continue our aim of being the voice for the people of Lowestoft."

To find out more about our commitments for 2025/26, you can read our Council Tax leafelt.