Thurrock BC will reduce its ‘over-reliance’ on borrowing from other councils by taking out £836m of loans from the Public Works Loan Board (PWLB).
The council has largely funded its capital programme and investment strategy through the inter-authority borrowing market since 2010, with other councils lending Thurrock hundreds of millions of pounds and generally charging less interest than the PWLB.
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