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Report it first

Most things get fixed faster by the team that fixes them. A councillor is who you go to when that has not worked, or when the decision itself is the problem.

Environment Contact Centre

Potholes, street lighting, fly-tipping, missed bins, abandoned vehicles — anything on the street.

Phone: 01642 726001

The council’s Report It pages on middlesbrough.gov.uk take the same reports online and give you a reference number, which is the single most useful thing to have if you end up asking a councillor to chase it.

Middlesbrough Council

Report It, bins, council tax, parking and everything else the council does.

Website: www.middlesbrough.gov.uk/

Council meetings and papers

When the committees sit, what is on the agenda, and what was decided.

Website

The elected Mayor

Middlesbrough has had a directly elected mayor since 2002. The mayor is chosen by the whole town rather than by a ward, so this is your mayor whatever your postcode says.

Chris Cooke - Elected Mayor

Labour and Co-operative Party · Elected Mayor/ Group Leader

Email: mayor@middlesbrough.gov.uk
Website: moderngov.middlesbrough.gov.uk/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=153

In office since 2 May 2019.

Every ward

20 wards, 46 councillors, as the council’s register lists them.

Acklam

Councillor Luke Henman
Labour · Executive Member for Children's Services
luke_henman@middlesbrough.gov.uk
In office since 4 July 2024.
Councillor Tom Livingstone
Liberal Democrats
tom_livingstone@middlesbrough.gov.uk
In office since 9 May 2023.

Ayresome

Councillor Janet Thompson
Labour
Janet_Thompson@middlesbrough.gov.uk
In office since 13 December 2018.
Councillor Jackie Young
Independent
jackie_young@middlesbrough.gov.uk
In office since 17 August 2023.

Berwick Hills and Pallister

Councillor Ian Blades
Labour · Executive Member for Neighbourhoods
ian_blades@middlesbrough.gov.uk
In office since 30 June 2022.
Councillor Julia Cooke
Labour
julia_cooke@middlesbrough.gov.uk
In office since 9 May 2023.
Councillor Donna Jones
Middlesbrough Independent Councillors Association

How current this is

Read from the council’s own committee system now.

Councillors resign, change party and are replaced between elections, and a by-election result can take a few days to reach the register. The council’s own member index is the last word.

The last all-out council elections were on 4 May 2023.

Councillors, wards, parties and contact addresses from Middlesbrough Council’s own committee management system. Ward boundaries from postcodes.io, which serves Office for National Statistics data under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Worth knowing

Most wards have two or three councillors, and a couple have one. You can write to any of them, or to all of them — none of them is more yours than the others.

Councillors are not council staff. They are unpaid apart from an allowance and most have day jobs, so a reply can take a week or two. Say which street you mean, what has already been reported and when, and include any reference number you were given.

Some councillors hold a regular ward surgery — an hour where any resident can turn up and talk to them. Where that happens, it is published on their own page in the council’s member index.

Councillors resign, change party and win by-elections between elections. If a name here does not match a letter you have had, the council’s member index is the version that counts.

Official pages

Find your councillor on the council’s siteThe council’s own postcode search — the one to use if this page cannot place your address.

Every councillor, by wardThe council’s full member index, with a page for each councillor.

Middlesbrough CouncilReport It, bins, council tax, parking and everything else the council does online.

Who are my councillors?

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