Before anyone asks for your vote: what the official record says about the ground around this area — housing sites, schools, protected areas, air quality — and who represents you now.
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Boundary: ONS Open Geography Portal (Open Government Licence). Map tiles: OpenStreetMap.
Official open data about the area. It describes the place, not you, and it favours no candidate.
People claiming unemployment-related benefits
60 people in Rodborough ward, 2.3% of residents aged 16–64, against 4% across England (August 2026).
Claimant count, Office for National Statistics via Nomis (Open Government Licence). It counts people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance or Universal Credit while required to seek work; it is not the same as the unemployment rate.
House prices in Stroud
Average price £351,736, up 2.9% on a year earlier (July 2026).
Flats and maisonettes: £164,299
Detached houses: £555,216
Source: HM Land Registry UK House Price Index for the local authority (Open Government Licence). A local-authority average; prices within it vary widely.
Recorded crime nearby, July 2026
0 street-level crimes recorded within about a mile of the area's centre.
Source: data.police.uk (Open Government Licence). Centroid of the ONS 2024 boundary. Statistics near this point describe the area, not any household. Recorded crime reflects reporting and policing as well as offending; see the ONS guidance in further reading.
Past elections in this ward
Every recorded council election here since 2006, most recent first. Elected candidates in bold. Past results describe the past; each election is a new contest.
2024— Labour Party, Labour Party elected · turnout 50%
Nigel Andrew Prenter
Labour Party
602
Katy Hofmann
Labour Party
576
Liz Hillary
Green Party
539
Phil Blomberg
Green Party
505
Robin Layfield
Independent Berwick Hills Resident
450
Helen Elliott-Boult
Independent Berwick Hills Resident
303
Sarah Jones
Conservative and Unionist Party
193
Tom Whittaker
Conservative and Unionist Party
169
2021— Labour Party, Labour Party elected · turnout 45%
Robin Layfield
Labour Party
754
Nigel Andrew Prenter
Labour Party
609
Phil Blomberg
Green Party
463
Liz Hillary
Green Party
435
Libby Bird
Conservative and Unionist Party
405
Bob Trusty
Conservative and Unionist Party
331
2016— Labour Party, Labour Party elected · turnout 48%
Nigel Andrew Prenter
Labour Party
693
Karen Helen McKeown
Labour Party
656
Libby Bird
Conservative and Unionist Party
435
Phil Blomberg
Green Party
335
Sarah Leslie Shaw
Conservative and Unionist Party
304
Christine Linda Headley
Liberal Democrats
285
Kiera Megan Jones
Green Party
207
2015— Labour Party elected · turnout 79%
Nigel Prenter
Labour Party
953
Thomas Skinner
Conservative and Unionist Party
795
Philip Blomberg
Green Party
576
Christine Headley
Liberal Democrats
485
2012— Labour Party elected · turnout 44%
Stephen Moore
Labour Party
579
Christine Headley
Liberal Democrats
490
Rodger Cuddington
Conservative and Unionist Party
333
Philip Blomberg
Green Party
205
2011— Labour Party elected · turnout 52%
Nigel Prenter
Labour Party
617
Christine Headley
Liberal Democrats
591
Adam Sarch
Conservative and Unionist Party
453
Philip Blomberg
Green Party
213
2008— Conservative and Unionist Party elected
Nigel Cooper
Conservative and Unionist Party
516
Andrew Fisk
Liberal Democrats
465
Phil Blomberg
Green Party
446
John Appleton
Labour Party
178
2007— Liberal Democrats elected
Christine Headley
Liberal Democrats
479
Nigel Cooper
Conservative and Unionist Party
474
Philip Blomberg
Green Party
406
Sally Thorpe
Labour Party
198
Source: DCLEAPIL v1.0 British local election results 2006–2024, by Jason Leman, drawing on Andrew Teale's Local Elections Archive Project and Democracy Club (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0). Where a ward's boundaries changed, earlier results were for a somewhat different area.
Who represents you now
Councillors for Rodborough, as recorded after the May 2026 elections:
Katy Hofmann, Labour Party
Nigel Prenter, Labour Party
This by-election fills a seat that has fallen vacant since then, so one of those listed may no longer hold it.
Across the whole of Stroud council (51 seats in 2026): Conservative 6, Labour 17, Liberal Democrat 2, Green 24, Other 2. Run by: Greens, as a minority administration.
Councillors and council make-up from Open Council Data (public domain). The council's own website lists current councillors and how to contact them.
