Welcome to London Fields
This is the dedicated page for
all the information you will need about London Fields. This
includes details of the new ward forums, information about who
represents you in the council, and statistics about the
neighbourhood.
To find out which ward you live
in, please visit Find My
Nearest, and enter your postcode in the
‘Search for
your address’ box. The ward will appear
under the ‘Elections and Voting’ header. If you would
like to receive email alerts of future meetings, please
register an account and select the committees you are
interested in.
Your ward councillors
Local ward councillors are
responsible for representing the people who live in this area, on a
wide variety of issues. Councillors (also known as Members) are
normally elected for four year terms, and are elected by local
people to plan, run, monitor and develop Council
services.
Councillors work to improve the
quality of life for people within their area and make decisions
about local issues. They have to decide what is in the public
interest amidst a range of conflicting issues and views.
Councillors usually represent a Political Party, although can be
Independent. All Councillors represent all the citizens in their
ward.
Ward Forums
Each ward in Hackney has its
own ward forum which is run by local Councillors and residents as a
way to improve the local area together.
Your ward Councillors will help
you to agree the key things that need to get done in your area,
whether that’s improving local facilities, or finding a new
community space to use. In some cases
these will be things that ward forum participants can lead on:
examples of this from other parts of the country have included
decorating a community hall, or starting a project to help
vulnerable neighbours. In other cases
there will be priorities that the Council might be able to help
with, like finding ways to increase recycling or using local
facilities at different times. Also,
where there are successful community projects happening already,
the new Ward Forums can be used as a way to link them together, and
to the Council where needed.
London Fields profile
Here are some facts and figures
about your local community:
·
Demographic, social and economic characteristics
·
Ward map
·
Health and wellbeing information
·
Forthcoming council
decisions from the
Executive Meetings & Key Decisions Notice
·
Planning applications in the area from Find My
Nearest (use the ‘Planning’ tab on the dropdown
bar)
·
Licensing
applications
·
Consultations
Other meetings and events in the ward
Link to relevant London
Fields safer neighbourhoods
What’s
On in the area
Get involved
There are a number of ways you
can have a say
- Depending on the topic, attend a ward forum or visit a
Councillor’s surgery
- Contact the Councillors of the ward, to tell them what you want
discussed – their contact details are available by clicking
on their names under the Your ward Councillors section of this
page
- Tweet
with the hashtag #LondonFields to discuss things about your
ward