City of Westminster

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

City of Westminster is the one council for Westminster: there is no county council above it, so it runs bins, council tax and planning, and schools, roads and social care. ONS places 13,063 postcodes in use in Westminster, in 38 postcode districts across 5 postcode areas.

90% of homes and businesses in Westminster can get gigabit broadband, Ofcom says. The Environment Agency puts 16 homes and businesses in Westminster in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Its own pages listed
22
Postcodes in use
13,063
Postcode districts
38
Towns and villages
4

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

Its website

City of Westminster

westminster.gov.uk

Name and website as GOV.UK gives them.

Do it on City of Westminster'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.

Bins and recycling

Council tax

Planning and building

Housing

Roads and parking

Report a problem

Schools

Care, support and libraries

Councillors, voting and complaints

The pages are the ones GOV.UK lists for City of Westminster. GOV.UK lists 25. When we opened them on 14 October 2026, 3 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 Westminster?

Across Westminster, 90% of homes and businesses can get gigabit broadband and 88% full fibre, Ofcom says.

Full fibre88% can get it
Gigabit (1,000 Mbit/s)90% can get it
Superfast (30 Mbit/s or more)97% can get it

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 Westminster?

Band D for 2026‑27: £1,050 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£700
Band B£816
Band C£933
Band D£1,050
Band E£1,283
Band F£1,516
Band G£1,749
Band H£2,099

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 Westminster are at risk of flooding?

Across Westminster, the Environment Agency puts 16 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 884 postcodes with any property at risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 884 postcodes High: 15Medium: 1Very low: 18,174

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 Westminster the Environment Agency counts 17,291 properties at high risk of flooding from surface water (9.9% of all its properties), 8,789 at medium risk (5%) and 15,674 at low risk (9%). 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

Postcode districts with postcodes in Westminster

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

Its postcode areas

EC postcode area: East Central London, postcodes in use here:4 of 3,550NW postcode area: North West London, postcodes in use here:1,089 of 14,255SW postcode area: South West London, postcodes in use here:2,208 of 20,109W postcode area: West London, postcodes in use here:9,085 of 18,480WC postcode area: West Central London, postcodes in use here:677 of 2,537

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

Towns and villages

City of WestminsterCamdenBrentKensington and Chelsea

ONS names London's built-up areas after its boroughs, so a neighbouring borough's name is here where its built-up area crosses into Westminster.

Is an address in Westminster?

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

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What Westminster 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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