Type your postcode to see your ward, the councillors who represent it and their published email addresses — plus the council service lines that fix potholes, bins and street lights faster than a councillor can.
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Middlesbrough has twenty wards and forty-six ward councillors, plus a mayor elected by the whole town. Type your postcode and this page tells you which ward you are in and who represents it, with the email address the council publishes for each of them. The names are read from the council’s own committee system every time the page loads, so they are the ones the council is publishing today rather than a list somebody copied out once.
Councillor, or the service line?
A pothole, a street light, a missed bin or fly-tipping goes to the team that fixes it — the Environment Contact Centre on 01642 726001, or Report It on the council’s website. They have the job, the budget and a reference number. A councillor is who you go to next: when the report has gone nowhere, when the same street keeps coming back, or when the decision itself is the problem — a closure, a charge, a planning application. Sending a pothole to a councillor first usually just adds a week to it.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.