East Staffordshire Borough Council

Bins, council tax and planning, and what the council covers

East Staffordshire Borough Council is the district, borough or city council for East Staffordshire. It collects bins and council tax, and decides planning applications. Schools, roads and social care here are run by the county council, Staffordshire. ONS places 3,015 postcodes in use in East Staffordshire, in 8 postcode districts across 3 postcode areas.

83% of homes and businesses in East Staffordshire can get gigabit broadband, Ofcom says. The Environment Agency puts 512 homes and businesses in East Staffordshire in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Its own pages listed
10
Postcodes in use
3,015
Postcode districts
8
Towns and villages
6

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Its website

East Staffordshire Borough Council

eaststaffsbc.gov.uk

Name and website as GOV.UK gives them.

Do it on East Staffordshire Borough Council's own website

Each link goes straight to the page on the council's own website for that task. We opened every one on 14 October 2026.

Council tax

Planning and building

Housing

Roads and parking

Report a problem

Councillors, voting and complaints

The pages are the ones GOV.UK lists for East Staffordshire Borough Council. GOV.UK lists 17. When we opened them on 14 October 2026, 7 pages had gone (missing, or moved to a page about something else). We left those out rather than send you to a page we could not see. If one has moved since, tell us.

What broadband can you get in East Staffordshire?

Across East Staffordshire, 83% of homes and businesses can get gigabit broadband and 82% full fibre, Ofcom says.

Full fibre82% can get it
Gigabit (1,000 Mbit/s)83% can get it
Superfast (30 Mbit/s or more)98% can get it
Cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s)Under 1%

For one street, look up its postcode: each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

How much is council tax in East Staffordshire?

Band D for 2026‑27: £2,351 a year

Every other band is a fixed share of Band D, set in law. Band A is two thirds of it; band H is twice it.

BandA year
Band A£1,568
Band B£1,829
Band C£2,090
Band D£2,351
Band E£2,874
Band F£3,396
Band G£3,919
Band H£4,703

Band D is the average across the area, including the county council, police, fire and combined authority charges, and parish or town council charges, so a home's own bill can be a little different. Bands other than D are worked out by us from Band D and rounded to the pound. A home's bill also takes off any discount, such as 25% for one adult living alone.

Check one home's band on GOV.UK

Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 10, published 25 March 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

How many homes in East Staffordshire are at risk of flooding?

Across East Staffordshire, the Environment Agency puts 512 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 795 postcodes with any property at risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 795 postcodes High: 314Medium: 198Low: 1,078Very low: 14,674

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them. It leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Surface water

In East Staffordshire the Environment Agency counts 1,835 properties at high risk of flooding from surface water (2.6% of all its properties), 2,485 at medium risk (3.5%) and 8,008 at low risk (11.4%). Surface water is rain that cannot drain away fast enough.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Surface Water, properties at risk by local authority, version 2025-09, listed 18 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Schools, roads and care: Staffordshire

East Staffordshire has two councils. The county council, Staffordshire, runs schools, roads, social care and libraries here.

Everything Staffordshire County Council does

Postcode districts with postcodes in East Staffordshire

Counted from the ONS Postcode Directory. A postcode district is drawn for sorting post, so many cross a council's edge.

Its postcode areas

DE postcode area: Derby, postcodes in use here:2,163 of 17,984ST postcode area: Stoke-on-Trent, postcodes in use here:749 of 17,871WS postcode area: Walsall, postcodes in use here:103 of 10,307

Beside each area: how many of its postcodes in use are in East Staffordshire.

Towns and villages

Burton upon TrentUttoxeterStrettonBarton-under-NeedwoodTutburyRolleston on Dove

Is an address in East Staffordshire?

A council's edge does not follow postcodes exactly. Check the postcode.

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What East Staffordshire covers: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. Its name, website and own pages: GOV.UK, Local authority services, downloaded 14 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0; every link opened on 14 October 2026. See all our data sources

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