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In full: List of council charges set to rise in Dundee next year including burials and bins

The local authority has confirmed its proposed charges for 2023/24 across various areas

Various services will cost more next year.
Various services will cost more next year.

A series of charges and fees for council services in Dundee could be set to rise next year.

The local authority has confirmed its proposed charges for 2023/24 across various areas including the hire of sports facilities, weddings, burials and waste collections.

It comes after The Courier revealed how council tax is set to go up in Dundee by 4.75% next year.

It’s hoped the increased costs for key services will generate around £642,000 in extra income for the council coffers.

Here we look in full at the proposals for fee rises across the city – which councillors are set to approve.


Key council charges set to rise in 2023/24

Car parking and Permits

Off street car parking 

  • Shore Terrace for up to two hours: £3.50 (up from £3.30) and £2.10 per hour thereafter (up from £2).
  • Yeaman Shore and Discovery for up to two hours: £3.50 (up from £2.70) and £14 for up to 10 hours (up from £12).

All other off street car parking is to remain the same.

On street car parking

  • City Centre for up to 30 minutes £2.50 (up from £2.30) and up to one hour £3.30 (up from £3.10).

All other on street parking charges are to remain the same.

Resident parking permits in the city will cost £124.

Residents Parking Permits (Annual Charge)

  • City Centre: £124 (up from £120).
  • Broughty Ferry: £87 (up from £84).
  • Menzieshill: £21 (up from £20).

Hire of school sports facilities

Football pitches at Baldragon and St Paul’s RC Academies:

  • Standard: £90 (up from £87).
  • Concession: £66.25 (up from £63).

Football pitches at Rowantree Primary, North East Campus and all other schools:

  • Standard: £33.50 (up from £32).
  • Concession: £19 (up from £18).

Pre-school education

Per hour

  • £5.25 (up from £4.95).

Per day

  • Young Persons Unit: £252 (up from £240).
  • Children’s Unit: £174 (up from £165).

Health and social care

Meal charges:

  • £4.20 (up from £3.90).
Some health and social care charges will rise.

Dispersed community alarm charges: 

  • £4 (up from £3.80) – exceptions for people over 70 and in receipt of council tax benefit.

Non-residential care:

  • Housing with care: £18.30 per hour (up from £17.45).
  • Social care, housing support and respite at home: £19 per hour (up from £18.08).
  • Day care (older people): £45.30 per day (up from £43.10).
  • Shopping: £10.20 per shop (up from £9.70).
  • Laundry: £9 per load (up from £8.60).

Dundee community living units:

  • Service user contribution: £471.10 per week (up from £448.70).

Interment fees

overgrown cemeterySemi-private ground: 

  • £409 (up from £397).
  • £599 on Saturday/statutory holidays (up from £582).

Purchased ground: 

  • £625 (up from £607).
  • £949 on Saturday/statutory holidays (up from £921).

Interment of cremated remains: 

  • £200 (up from £194).
  • £298 on Saturday/statutory holidays (up from £289).

Weddings and civil ceremonies

Baxter Park Sandstone Pavilion/other venues as suitable: 

  • £221.50 Monday to Friday (up from £213).
  • £255 Saturday (up from £245).
  • £278 Sunday/public holidays (up from £267).
Wedding ceremonies with a small reception will cost £427.

Ceremonies followed by a small reception (max four hours): 

  • £427 Monday to Friday (up from £415).
  • £471 Saturday (up from £457).
  • £541 Sunday/public holidays (up from £525).

Registrars – civil ceremonies

All fees to rise except the cost of a basic ceremony with two witnesses present at the Hollins Room, during working hours Monday to Friday, which remains the same at £155).

Events

Non-commercial:

  • Small e.g. park runs, sponsored walks: No charge (no change).
  • Other e.g. galas organised by community groups: £80 (up from £76).
A concert crowd at Slessor Gardens.

Commercial:

  • Small e.g. Race for Life, Santa Dash: £481 (up from £467).
  • Large e.g. circus, funfair, small/medium concerts: £690 (up from £670).
  • Major e.g. music festivals: On application.

Hire of facilities

Baxter Park Glass Pavilion, normal opening hours:

  • Commercial: £75 (up from £72).
  • Standard: £54 (up from £52).
  • Concession: £45 (up from £43).

Baxter Park Glass Pavilion, outwith normal opening hours:

  • Commercial: £98 (up from £94).
  • Standard: £73 (up from £70).
  • Concession: £49 (up from £47).
Baxter Park Pavilion.

Lochee Park Pavilion, Castle Green Leisure Centre, Baxter Park Centre, Duntrune Community Garden Conservatory – full room hire:

  • Standard: £26 (up from £25).
  • Concession: £12.50 (up from £12).

Dawson Park artificial pitches: 

  • Standard: £90 (up from £87).
  • Concession: £65 (up from £63).

Dawson Park tennis (with floodlighting):

  • Standard: £6.20 (up from £6).
  • Coaching sessions per hour £6.70 (up from £6.50).
Tennis coaching will cost £6.70 per hour.

Football 11-a-side, Gaelic football, rugby and shinty:

  • Standard: £33.50 (up from £32).
  • Concession: £19 (up £18).

Football seven-a-side:

  • Standard: £15.50 (up from £15).

Changing rooms:

  • Adults: £28 (up from £27.50).
  • Juveniles: £16.50 (up from £16).

Cricket:

  • £72.50 (up from £70).

Hire of rooms in school buildings

Small Room (10 people or less)

  • Commercial: £13.40 (up from £13) during peak hours and £8 (up from £7.75) during off peak hours.
  • Standard: £8 (up from £7.75) during peak hours and £6.40 (up from £6.20) during off peak hours.
  • Concession: £6.40 (up from £6.20) during peak hours and £5.10 (up from £4.95) during off peak hours.

Medium Room (50 people or less)

  • Commercial: £25.75 (up from £25) during peak hours and £12.90 (up from £12.50) during off peak hours.
  • Standard: £12.90 (up from £12.50) during peak hours and £12.90 (up from £12.50) during off peak hours.
  • Concession: £10.30 (up from £10) during peak hours and £8.80 (up from £8.50) during off peak hours.
Renting a space for events will cost more.

Large Room / Small Hall (50 – 100 people)

  • Commercial: £38.15 (up from £37) during peak hours and £19.10 (up from £18.50) during off peak hours.
  • Standard: £19.10 (up from £18.50) during peak hours and £12.90 (up from £12.50) during off peak hours.
  • Concession: £12.50 (up from £12.90) during peak hours and £10.30 (up from £10.00) during off peak hours.

Large Community Hall (100 people or more)

  • Commercial: £48.45 (up from £47) during peak hours and £24.25 (up from £23.50) during off peak hours.
  • Standard: £24.25 (up from £23.50) during peak hours and £19.35 (up from £18.75) during off peak hours.
  • Concession: £19.35 (up from £18.75) during peak hours and £15.45 (up from £15) during off peak hours.

Countryside Ranger Service

Environmental education site visits for schools:

  • Full day: £57 (up from £55).
  • Half-day: £29 (up from £27.50).
  • Annual charge: £253.50 (up from £246).

Waste management

A brown bin permit will now cost £45.

Special collections:

  • Domestic special collections (up to six items): £29 (up from £27.50).
  • Domestic special collections mini uplift (seven to 12 items): £50 (up from £47.50).
  • Half-hourly charge: £69 (up from £65.50).

Annual garden waste brown bin permit:

  • Annual collection: £45 (up from £42.50) – applicable from March 2024.

Animal services

Brown Street Kennels:

  • Sale of dogs: £154 (up from £147).

Dogs returned to owners:

  • Fees to rise, from up to one day (£66 from £62) to up to seven days (£136 from £130).

Pest control call-outs:

  • During normal working hours: £98 (up from £93).
  • Outwith normal working hours: £155 (up from £148).
  • Hourly rate: £90 (up from £86).
  • Uplift of deceased animals: £44 (up from £42).
A pest control expert in a house
Pest control charges will also change.

Travelling people’s site

Weekly rent charges:

  • £72 (up from £69.90).

*The number of pitches available to rent has been reduced from 20 to 14, meaning the council will receive no additional income.

What else is going up?

Costs for services including construction, equipment hire and use of council archives are also set to rise, as set out in new documents.

Parking charges in some parts of the city will change.

What won’t be changing?

Some charges are remaining the same for 2023/24.

These include the costs of:

  • Music instrument hire (remains free)
  • School meals
  • Blue badges
  • Cost of temporary accommodation properties

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