Preston council budget: The key words

27th, January 2012 by Ed Walker

The graphic above shows the most-used words in the Preston City Council budget

We’ve run the council’s budget proposal from 2012 to 2016 into Wordle, which crunches the 80 odd pages to find the most commonly used phrases.

This gives you an at-a-glance look at what the most used words are by the Labour administration in how they plan to spend your money.

What do you make of the graphic? What does it tell you? Let us know in the comments below

Preston council meet this Thursday to make final budget decisions

20th, February 2012 by Slavka Atanasova

Preston Council officials are meeting this Thursday to make final decisions on budget plans for 2012/2013. 3.5% council tax rise is among the major proposals made by the councillors in a meeting which took place earlier this month. This equals to an increase of £ 9 per annum, from £ 259 to £ 268 per Band D property. In order to justify the tax increase, councillor Peter Rankin, [...]

Analysis of Preston Council Budget: Where has money been saved?

31st, January 2012 by Joseph Stashko

Preston City Council have released the details of their new budget proposal, including a proposed rise in council tax by 3.5%. Yesterday I took a look at what the council intend to spend money on over the next four years, and today I’m going to look at the areas in which they intend to save money. Click on the graph below to compare figures across [...]