Parish and town council spending is set to rise from £708m in 2023/24 to £783m in 2024-25.
The average council tax is also rising by 8.5% for the coming year, according to figures published by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC).
Cllr Keith Stevens, chair of the National Association of Local Councils (NALC), said that parish and town councils were ‘increasingly taking on more responsibilities from financially challenged larger local authorities’.
He added that while they represent just 1.9% of overall council tax, ‘they are investing five times more in local communities than they were two and half decades ago’.
