Headington & Marston Local Government
Oxford City Council website
See also the “Openly Local” statistics and information about Oxford City Council, and What Do They Know? for their freedom of Information request replies
City Councillors for Headington & Marston
New arrangements for Headington and Marston area
The North-East Area Committee ceased to exist in May 2011, and the two functions of their meetings have been split in two:
Planning
Oxford now has just two planning committees: East and West, with Headington & Marston coming under the East Area Planning Committee (covering the 13 wards of the North-East, South-East and Cowley Area Committees). The East Area Planning Committee is a group of councillors from across Oxford that meets once a month at the Town Hall, and local residents are able to attend and speak (in the same way that they did at the Strategic Development Control Committee).
Most applications will be delegated to officers as before.
Area meetings
The new North-East Area Forum meets approximately every three months, and covers the same six Headington & Marston wards as the North-East Area Committee, but has no planning powers.
Individual city councillors can also arrange additional less formal meetings just for people who live in their ward. People living in the central Headington ward, for example, are invited to nine focus meetings a year.
County Councillors for Headington/Marston
Member of Parliament
Headington and Marston are in the Oxford East constituency
- MP: Andrew Smith (Labour)
Constituency Office: 4 Flaxfield Road, Blackbird Leys, Oxford OX4 5QD (tel. 01865 772893)
European Parliament
- Oxford is in the South-East division which has ten MEPs
Local party websites
- Conservatives: Oxford East
- http://www.headingtonlibdems.org.uk for useful central Headington ward information
- Labour: Oxford East (Andrew Smith)
- Oxford Green Party
Neighbourhood Statistics
The Neighbourhood Statistics government website based on the 2001 census reveals that the central Headington city council ward has 5,619 inhabitants (46% male and 54% female); the average age is 40.1 years; 46.3% have never married; 90.1% are white; 63.8% are Christian; 60% are in employment; 35.2% are one-person households; 28.2% live in flats; 28.1% of households have no car or van; and a staggering 52.8% of people aged between 16 and 74 are qualified to degree level or higher. You can type in your postcode and get the same information for other wards in the Headington area.
Links
- “Write to them”
- “Hear from your MP”
- “Neighbourhood Fix-It”
- Petition the Prime Minister
- “They work for you”: Check out your MP’s record
- “Fix my street”
Previous election results:
- City council election:
May 2008, May 2006, June 2004 and May 2002
List of local city councillors prior to May 2002 - County council elections:
May 2005 and June 2001
List of Headington & Marston county councillors prior to May 2005 - General Elections:
May 2005 and June 2001
