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29
Jan
Yorkshire Water announces bills to rise from April
Yorkshire Water has announced it will hike average bills by £2.50 a month from April.
The company said it had made the decision to help pay for £8.3 billion worth of investments, which it says will improve customer service and environmental outcomes.
The move will see bills increase by 5.6% and sits above the rate of inflation.
However, Matt Pinder, customer director at Yorkshire Water, said the decision will help to fund projects such as improvements to storm overflows and mains replacements.
He said:
This is our largest ever investment package – designed to drive significant progress in areas we know are important to our customers. We’ve already delivered a huge number of infrastructure projects – over 200 in 2025 – and it’s important that we keep that momentum going over the next year, and beyond.
The money we collect from customer bills, alongside shareholder investment and borrowing, will be spent on a wide variety of improvements across the region - from improvements to storm overflows to mains replacements and bringing in new water resources - alongside delivering a better service for our customers.
The move to increase bills was agreed by Ofwat in December 2024.
The company said the funds raised from the increase will go towards a wide range of infrastructure projects between April 2026 and April 2027.
These include:
- Progressing a £38m plan for reducing leakage across the region.
- Replacing 353km of mains throughout Yorkshire, to reduce bursts and instances of water supply disruptions
- Exchanging a further 350,000 smart meters to help customers save water and reduce their bills
- Building more resilience into the clean water network with infrastructure upgrades – for example, a £22m upgrade at Ingbirchworth water treatment site
- Continuing a £1.5bn investment to reduce discharges into watercourses from more than 450 storm overflows across Yorkshire
- Starting a number of projects to reduce the amount of phosphorous entering watercourses, including multimillion pound projects at Haxby Walbutts wastewater treatment works and Naburn wastewater treatment works in the spring.
The company said it would also be offering financial support schemes for those who struggle to pay their bills. More information on the support can be found on the Yorkshire Water website here.
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