COUNCIL tax in Ross-on-Wye will go up for the next financial year.

At the Ross town council meeting, councillors voted in favour of raising the precept from April.

The precept of £315,711 has now risen from last year’s £256,614, which means an increase of 27p per week for a band D property.

All but one councillor, Chris Bartrum, voted in favour of the rise, which the town clerk said was partly due to the loss of the support grant from Herefordshire Council.