Islington Council has announced its budget for the next year. The council remains committed to working towards a fairer Islington and the top priorities are homes, safety, jobs, and the environment. Key pillars of the budget include:
- Building new council homes
- Preventing homelessness
- Tackling rogue landlords
- Tackling violence against women and girls
- Creating a rapid-response anti-social behaviour team
- Helping vulnerable adults to upskill and get into work
- Protecting frontline environmental services such as street cleaning, parks maintenance and weekly recycling and rubbish collections
- Lobbying Government for more urgent climate action, as well as doubling the amount of School Streets to improve air quality
The budget proposals will go to the council’s Executive on Thursday 16 January, before being debated by full council on Thursday 27 February, when the council’s budget for 2020/21 will be set.
Don't let your real Christmas tree go to waste after the festive season. Recycle it.
Every year, Islington Council collects and recycles residents’ real Christmas trees from collection points or directly from council estates and properties. Trees will be collected until Tuesday 21 January.
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You can commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day with Islington Council at a breakfast event on Monday 27 January. The morning will feature powerful testimonies from Holocaust and Bosnian genocide survivors, contributions from local schoolchildren, and remarks from local MPs and Islington Council Leader Cllr Richard Watts.
You are invited to join Union Chapel, who are hosting two Holocaust Memorial Day events, on Sunday 26 January and Wednesday 29 January, celebrating the power of uniting with one another through music and song.
Other events commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day include an exhibition and a book club style discussion of 'Night', one of the most famous books on the Holocaust, will be held on Tuesday 28 January.
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Primary School places deadline
If your child was born between 1 September 2015 and 31 August 2016, you will need to apply for a place at primary school for them. The deadline to apply is by the end of the day on Wednesday 15 January.
Read the primary schools brochure.
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Islington will receive three additional councillors and one additional ward from 2022. The Boundary Commission has published its report, making these recommendations to Parliament. It means that there will be changes to most of our existing wards - either the shape of them, or the name, or both!
Islington should have 51 councillors in future, an increase from the current 48. These councillors will represent 17 three-councillor wards across the borough. Currently there are 16 wards. The new wards will be known - in alphabetical order - as:
Arsenal, Barnsbury, Bunhill, Caledonian, Canonbury, Clerkenwell, Finsbury Park, Highbury, Hillrise, Holloway, Junction, Laycock, Mildmay, St Mary’s & St James’, St Peter’s & Canalside, Tollington, and Tufnell Park.
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