10:05 pm 6th January 2026
The budget is published and the link is below. The council itself is recognising that the budget outcome is not the one it wanted, that there is a gap between the cost of the services it needs to deliver and the income that the council can raise (and keep).
I can’t add to the official line linked above. As I see it, the changeover to a new fairer funding model has left Trafford on the wrong side of a line. We’re flagging this up to the Government and seeking a financial accommodation from them.
Trafford remains a council that collects more money than it is allowed to spend itself. That surplus is only going to get bigger with projects like Therme and the Manchester United district. The idea of bankruptcy is just ludicrous.
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