The part of council tax Spalding residents pay to the town is to go down.
The Spalding Special Expense is collected as part of the district council contribution.
For the 2025/26 financial year it will go down from £25.83 a year for a band D property to £23.13 – a drop of ten per cent.
It’s because the Spalding Town Forum, for which the Spalding Special Expense is collected, is set to come in £33,000 under budget for this current financial year.
The vast majority of that comes from a new lease for the Sir Halley Stewart Playing Field signed with Spalding United meaning the club will cover the cost of works rather than it come out of the special expense budget.
The money saved will be transferred to the reserves, last week’s meeting of Spalding Town Forum was told.
Its chair Coun Rob Gibson said: “There’s slightly more going into the reserves and we’re doing that by reducing what our council tax payers pay, which is good.
“At some point hopefully the reserves can be used for something in Spalding.”
