This is how much the council spent over a year on buying or building long-lasting things — roads, schools, housing, equipment. It matters because it shows whether the council is investing in its infrastructure or letting it run down. High spending can reflect big building programmes, which often mean more borrowing; low spending can mean tight finances and ageing facilities.
| name | capex_fixed_assets |
|---|---|
| dataset | 02-capital-outturn-debt |
| kind | extracted |
| type | numeric |
| unit | £000/yr |
| grain | council-year |
| role | feature |
| source | Capital_time_series_data_wide_24_03_26.csv, column EandR1_alltot_exptotfa |
| period | 2018-19 to 2024-25 |
| missingness | unknown |
| score_note | Near-duplicate of capex_total; raw spend tracks size, not management quality. |
| peer_group | council class (district / county / unitary / metropolitan / London) — not yet scored on the leaderboard |
Total expenditure on fixed assets — land and buildings, construction, vehicles and plant, intangibles. It isolates spend on tangible investment from other capital transactions (e.g. loans and share acquisitions), so the gap between capex_total and this column hints at commercial/financial capital activity. Its timely quarterly counterpart is capex_fixed_assets_q.