Until last year Bonhill Primary School was the second oldest school building in use in West Dunbartonshire but following the completion of the  new Bonhill Primary School the old building had been earmarked for disposal or demolition. 
However, on Monday 26th September 2011, local residents, many of whom were former pupils, watched in horror as a fire ripped through the old [...]

Labour Group Leader and Chair of the Audit and Performance Review Committee, Councillor Martin Rooney, has welcomed improvements in the Council’s performance in 2010/2011. Councillor Rooney said: ‘Its all too easy to see the Council as a bureaucratic and impersonal organisation that rarely changes. However, over the past year we have seen significant improvement in many aspects of [...]

The total number of households in West Dunbartonshire is 44,104. The Band D Council Tax level is £1,163, however the average Council Tax Bill in West Dunbartonshire is actually only £920. The reason for this is the high number of properties which are below Band D. 

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No of Houses per Band
 
8,132
 
17,148
 
7,348
 
5,522
 
4,122
 
1,531
 
571
 
 
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Council Tax Charge 2011/12
£775.33
£904.56 [...]

West Dunbartonshire Council has received news today (Thursday 22nd September) that we have been successful in the other two bids to the Scottish Governments Innovation and Investment Fund. This brings the total investment up to a whopping £2,250,000 and means that we will be able to build a total of 75 new housing units. The [...]

As part of the budget process for 2011/12, a number of papers detailing proposals for budget savings, including proposals for reducing spend on events. This included a proposal to reduce spending on Christmas events reducing the Councils activity to one event. In the Clydebank area the owners of Clydebank Town Centre fund the Clydebank Christmas light switch on event, [...]

At a meeting of the West Dunbartonshire Council Education Committee on 14th September the Councils attainment strategy received unanimous support from Councillors; church representatives; trades union representatives; and lay members of the committee. The strategy sets out the Councils vision for improving Secondary Schools pupils attainment levels and includes an initiative to set up a dedicated [...]

On Thursday 15 September 2011 West Dunbartonshire Council received official notification that we had been successful in securing £450,000 of Investment Funding for their bid to develop new 15 Council Houses in Miller Road, Haldane. The arrangements are underway to demolish the empty properties at 1,3 and 5 Miller Road and release the land to [...]