This is the money the council raised in a year by selling things it owns — land, buildings, shares in companies. It matters because sale proceeds are one-off money: useful for funding projects or paying down debt, but gone once spent. A high figure can mean the council is deliberately disposing of surplus property, or that it is selling assets because it is short of cash; a low figure means little was sold.
| name | capital_receipts_in_year |
|---|---|
| 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 REC_recrcv_amt |
| period | 2018-19 to 2024-25 |
| missingness | unknown |
| score_note | Understandable asset-sales figure, but lumpy and size-driven on its own. |
| peer_group | council class (district / county / unitary / metropolitan / London) — not yet scored on the leaderboard |
Capital receipts received in year — proceeds from selling assets. It measures how actively the council is disposing of its asset base; persistently high receipts relative to capital investment suggest the balance sheet is being run down. Receipts are lumpy year to year, so single-year values should be read with care.