Key services provided by other authorities

The key services provided by authorities other than Medway Council.

Kent Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC)

You can find details of all budgeted income and expenditure for 2025 to 2026 on the Kent PCC website.

Kent Fire and Rescue Service

You can find details of all budgeted income and expenditure for 2025 to 2026 on the Kent Fire and Rescue website.

Parish Councils

Parish councils maintain local assets including:

• allotments
• common lands
• burial grounds
• play areas
• tennis courts
• litter bins
• seats
• ponds.

Parish councils are consulted on all planning applications affecting their area. 

Environment Agency

The Environment Agency is a levying body for its Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Functions under the Flood and Water Management Act 2010 and the Environment Agency (Levies) (England and Wales) Regulations 2011.

The Environment Agency has powers in respect of flood and coastal erosion risk management for 3540 kilometres of main river and along tidal and sea defences in the area of the Southern Regional Flood and Coastal Committee.

Money is spent on the construction of new flood defence schemes, the maintenance of the river system and existing flood defences together with the operation of a flood warning system and management of the risk of coastal erosion. The financial details are:

Southern Regional Flood and Coastal Committee

The majority of funding for flood defence comes directly from the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). Under the new Partnership Funding rule, not all schemes will attract full central funding. To provide local funding for local priorities and contributions for partnership funding the Regional Flood and Coastal Committees recommend through the Environment Agency a local levy.

A change in the gross budgeted expenditure between years reflects the programme of works for both capital and revenue needed by the Regional Flood and Coastal Committee to which you contribute. The total Local Levy raised by this committee has increased by 3%.

The total Local Levy raised has increased from £1,642,087 in 2024 to 2025 to £1,691,349 for 2025 to 2026.

Council Tax data protection and fair processing notice

Your personal information will be held and used in line with the requirements of the Data Protection Act 2018.

Medway Council will use the information you have provided in connection with the administration of Council Tax. Medway Council is also under a duty to protect the public funds it administers and to this end may lawfully disclose information to other public sector agencies to:

• prevent or detect benefit fraud and any other crime and/or to administer claims for non-payment of Council Tax
• support national fraud initiatives – the council is required by law to participate in National Fraud Initiative (NFI) data matching exercises. Council Tax information may be provided to the Audit Commission for NFI purposes and will be used for cross-system and cross-authority comparison for the prevention and detection of fraud
• protect public funds in investigating misuse of public money.

The council also uses basic Council Tax information about you, for example name and address, in other areas of service provision if this:

• helps you to access services more easily
• promotes the more efficient and cost-effective delivery of services
• helps recover monies owed to the council.

The council will not use your personal data in a way that may cause you unwarranted detriment. Any disclosure of personal data shall be made in line with the Data Protection Act 2018.

You can see a copy of the information held about you. For more information, visit our data protection pages or to see a copy of the information held about you, you can make an information request. 

Get in touch

If you have any comments or questions about the information provided above, please contact:

Medway Council

Visit: www.medway.gov.uk/counciltax

Phone: 01634 332 222

Email: ctax@medway.gov.uk

Write to: Medway Council, Gun Wharf, Dock Road, Chatham, ME4 4TR

For further financial information regarding the police and fire services, please contact:

Kent Police and Crime Commissioner

Visit: kent-pcc.gov.uk

Phone: 01622 677 055

Twitter: @PCCKent

Write to: Office of the Kent Police and Crime Commissioner, Kent Police HQ, Sutton Road, Maidstone ME15 9BZ

Kent Fire and Rescue Service

Visit: kent.fire-uk.org

Phone: 01622 692 121

Email: KFRSFinance@kent.fire-uk.org

This booklet can be made available in other formats and languages, phone 01634 333 333.

If you want to speak to someone in your own language about this booklet please phone 01634 335 577.