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Antrim and Newtownabbey: what’s happening where you live

What the council itself has published on the five things it most shapes for a household: homes, getting about, the bill, the local environment and schools. Each line is quoted from the council’s own document, with the link. This page says what was decided or proposed; it never says whether it was right.

This page is built from official registers only; the council’s own publications have not been read yet, and every line below says so where that leaves a gap.

Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council: NI district (ni district), Northern Ireland. GOV.UK lists it as a unitary council. ONS code N09000001.

Council website

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The council’s own service pages as listed by GOV.UK’s Local Links Manager (Open Government Licence), refreshed weekly; the same list of everyday services, in the same order, for every council, in GOV.UK’s wording.

Housing

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Transport

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Council tax

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Environment

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Education

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Antrim and Newtownabbey in numbers

Official statistics for the whole council area. Each figure is the latest published, with the period it covers.

Total population
148,100 people 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMid-year estimate of the total number of people
Median age
40 years 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMedian age of people
Gross disposable household income per head
£22,664 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage income per person (£) after taxes and direct benefits
Gross median weekly pay
£611 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsGross median weekly pay based on where people live (£)
Children in relative poverty after housing costs
17.5% April 2024 to March 2025 · Department for Work and PensionsPercentage of children aged under 16 living in relative low income families After Housing Costs (AHC)
Claimant Count
2.3% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsPercentage of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming unemployment-related benefits
Average house price
£206,120 July 2026 · HM Land RegistryAverage monthly price of a property (£)
Female healthy life expectancy
62.6 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage years expected to be lived in good health for females born in the given year
Male healthy life expectancy
62.6 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage years expected to be lived in good health for males born in the given year
Greenhouse gas emissions
7.5 tCO2e per capita 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) per capita
Gigabit capable broadband
97.1% 1 January 2026 · OfcomPercentage of premises that have coverage from a gigabit-capable service (download speeds of 1,000 Mbps or more)
Public electric vehicle chargers
65.5 per 100,000 population 1 July 2026 · Department for Transport, sourced from ZapmapPublicly available electric vehicle chargers at all speeds per 100,000 people
Active businesses
3,690 number of enterprises 2024 · Office for National StatisticsBusinesses with turnover or employment in current year

Gathered by the Office for National Statistics in Explore Local Statistics (Open Government Licence), refreshed daily. Some figures aren’t published for every nation, so the list can be shorter outside England.

Who runs the council

40 seats in 2026. Run by: NULL, with a majority. Open Council Data (public domain).

Councillors by party: Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P. 13, Sinn Féin 9, Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland 8, Ulster Unionist Party 6, Independent / Other 3, SDLP (Social Democratic & Labour Party) 1.

Next scheduled council election: 6 May 2027.

All 40 councillors, by ward
  • Andrew McAuley (Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) — Airport
  • Anne-Marie Logue (Sinn Féin) — Airport
  • Maighréad Ní Chonghaile (Sinn Féin) — Airport
  • Matthew Magill (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Airport
  • Paul Michael (Independent / Other) — Airport
  • John Smyth (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Antrim
  • Leah Smyth (Ulster Unionist Party) — Antrim
  • Lucille O'Hagan (Sinn Féin) — Antrim
  • Neil Kelly (Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) — Antrim
  • Paul Dunlop (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Antrim
  • Roisin Lynch (SDLP (Social Democratic & Labour Party)) — Antrim
  • Helen Magill (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Ballyclare
  • Jeannie Archibald-Brown (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Ballyclare
  • Lewis Boyle (Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) — Ballyclare
  • Michael Stewart (Independent / Other) — Ballyclare
  • Vera McWilliam (Ulster Unionist Party) — Ballyclare
  • Annie O'Lone (Sinn Féin) — Dunsilly
  • Henry Cushinan (Sinn Féin) — Dunsilly
  • Jay Burbank (Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) — Dunsilly
  • Linda Clarke (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Dunsilly
  • Stewart Wilson (Ulster Unionist Party) — Dunsilly
  • Alison Bennington (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Glengormley Urban
  • Eamonn McLaughlin (Sinn Féin) — Glengormley Urban
  • Julian McGrath (Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) — Glengormley Urban
  • Mark Cosgrove (Ulster Unionist Party) — Glengormley Urban
  • Michael Goodman (Sinn Féin) — Glengormley Urban
  • Paula Bradley (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Glengormley Urban
  • Rosie Kinnear (Sinn Féin) — Glengormley Urban
  • Ben Mallon (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Macedon
  • Billy Webb (Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) — Macedon
  • Matthew Brady (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Macedon
  • Robert Foster (Ulster Unionist Party) — Macedon
  • Stafford Ward (Independent / Other) — Macedon
  • Taylor McGrann (Sinn Féin) — Macedon
  • Julie Gilmour (Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) — Three Mile Water
  • Mark Cooper (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Three Mile Water
  • Sam Flanagan (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Three Mile Water
  • Stephen Cosgrove (Ulster Unionist Party) — Three Mile Water
  • Stephen Ross (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Three Mile Water
  • Tom Campbell (Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) — Three Mile Water

Each councillor’s register of interests is on the council’s own website; we have not yet located the page. Councillors from Open Council Data as recorded after the May 2026 elections; a by-election since then may have changed one seat. Attendance and allowances are not shown.

This council’s meeting papers are not yet read automatically, so decisions and motions are not listed here; they are on the council’s website.

Write to your councillors → WriteToThem (mySociety) finds them from your postcode; nothing is sent through this site.

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Every council page has the same five headings in the same order. Sources are the council’s own publications and official statistics. Council list: mySociety, UK Local Authorities (CC BY 4.0) and WhatDoTheyKnow authorities (CC BY-SA 4.0); council websites, tiers and service links: GOV.UK (Open Government Licence); codes: ONS Code History Database (Open Government Licence). Corrections: hello@whatsittome.org.