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Ealing: 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.

London Borough of Ealing: London borough (unitary), England, London; part of the GLA combined authority. GOV.UK lists it as a unitary council. ONS code E09000009.

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Housing

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Transport

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Council tax

Band D set by Ealing for 2026–27: £1,628.02 of a £2,138.53 total bill in the area. MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027 (Open Government Licence).

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Environment

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Education

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Changes to schools in this area recorded by the Department for Education Updated automatically

No school here is currently recorded as proposed to open or close.

In the last twelve months: 8 opened (8 academy converter), 8 closed (8 academy converter)

Mount Carmel Catholic Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 March 2026
Our Lady of the Visitation Catholic Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 March 2026
St Anselm's Catholic Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 March 2026
St Gregory's Catholic Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 March 2026
St John Fisher Catholic Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 March 2026
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 March 2026
St Raphael's Catholic Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 March 2026
St Vincent's Catholic Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 March 2026
Mount Carmel Catholic Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 April 2026
Our Lady of the Visitation Catholic Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 April 2026
St Anselm's Catholic Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 April 2026
St Gregory's Catholic Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 April 2026
St John Fisher Catholic Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 April 2026
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 April 2026
St Raphael's Catholic Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 April 2026
St Vincent's Catholic Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 April 2026

Get Information about Schools, DfE’s register of every school in England, refreshed daily (Open Government Licence). The register’s own reason is shown: most closures and openings are a school becoming an academy, which changes who runs it, not whether it is there.

What the council plans to spend, 2026–27

The budget for each service, as Ealing reported it to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in England.

Ealing: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
Service	Budget
Education services	£455.9 million
Highways and transport services	£4.9 million
Children's social care	£97.8 million
Adult social care	£143.1 million
Public health	£35.6 million
Housing services (general fund only)	£48.3 million
Cultural and related services	£8.1 million
Environmental and regulatory services	£32.8 million
Planning and development services	£5.1 million
Police services	none budgeted
Fire and rescue services	none budgeted
Central services	£15.9 million
Other services	£13.5 million
Total service expenditure	£861.1 million

Net current expenditure: net of sales, fees and charges; spending funded by the NHS, such as through the Better Care Fund, is excluded.A minus figure means the service’s income is budgeted to be more than its spending. “None budgeted” usually means another body runs that service here. Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Revenue Account Budget 2026 to 2027, individual local authority data (part 1), updated 11 June 2026 (Open Government Licence).

Ealing in numbers

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

Total population: 385,985 people 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMid-year estimate of the total number of people
Median age: 36 years 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMedian age of people
Gross disposable household income per head: £30,873 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage income per person (£) after taxes and direct benefits
Gross median weekly pay: £697 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsGross median weekly pay based on where people live (£)
Children in relative poverty after housing costs: 33.9% 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: 6.6% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsPercentage of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming unemployment-related benefits
Average house price: £585,216 July 2026 · HM Land RegistryAverage monthly price of a property (£)
Housing affordability ratio (residence-based): 13.2 affordability ratio 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsRatio of median house price to median gross annual residence-based earnings
Female healthy life expectancy: 62.8 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: 2.8 tCO2e per capita 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) per capita
Gigabit capable broadband: 89.4% 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: 263.5 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: 19,985 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

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

Councillors by party: Labour Party 46, Liberal Democrats 13, Conservative and Unionist 5, Green Party (E&W) 5, Independent / Other 1.

Next scheduled council election: 2 May 2030.

All 70 councillors, by ward

Munir Abbasi (Labour Party) — Central Greenford
Sanjai Kohli (Labour Party) — Central Greenford
Valery Ryan (Labour Party) — Central Greenford
Isabel Owen (Labour Party) — Dormers Wells
Kanwal Bains (Labour Party) — Dormers Wells
Ranjit Dheer (Labour Party) — Dormers Wells
Adam Keenan (Liberal Democrats) — Ealing Broadway
Julian Gallant (Conservative and Unionist) — Ealing Broadway
Sean Hanrahan (Conservative and Unionist) — Ealing Broadway
Connie Hersch (Liberal Democrats) — Ealing Common
Jon Ball (Liberal Democrats) — Ealing Common
Lakhbir Singh (Liberal Democrats) — Ealing Common
Hitesh Tailor (Labour Party) — East Acton
Rabia Nasimi (Labour Party) — East Acton
Stephen Donnelly (Labour Party) — East Acton
Anthony Kelly (Labour Party) — Greenford Broadway
Harbhajan Dheer (Labour Party) — Greenford Broadway
Stephanie Ajayi (Labour Party) — Greenford Broadway
Athena Zissimos (Liberal Democrats) — Hanger Hill
Jonathan Oxley (Liberal Democrats) — Hanger Hill
Mark Sanders (Liberal Democrats) — Hanger Hill
Andrew Walkley (Green Party (E&W)) — Hanwell Broadway
Clare Welsby (Green Party (E&W)) — Hanwell Broadway
Natalia Kubica (Green Party (E&W)) — Hanwell Broadway
Karam Mohan (Labour Party) — Lady Margaret
Monica Hamidi (Labour Party) — Lady Margaret
Praveen Anand (Labour Party) — Lady Margaret
Blerina Hashani (Labour Party) — North Acton
Hodan Haili (Labour Party) — North Acton
Simon Anthony (Green Party (E&W)) — North Acton
Ajay Roy (Conservative and Unionist) — North Greenford
Flora MacLoughlin (Conservative and Unionist) — North Greenford
Kristian Mower (Conservative and Unionist) — North Greenford
Lauren Wall (Labour Party) — North Hanwell
Louise Brett (Labour Party) — North Hanwell
Ray Wall (Labour Party) — North Hanwell
Ian Kingston (Labour Party) — Northfield
Paul Driscoll (Labour Party) — Northfield
Sinead Whelan (Labour Party) — Northfield
Andrew Bailey (Labour Party) — Northolt Mandeville
Dominic Moffitt (Labour Party) — Northolt Mandeville
Miriam Rice (Labour Party) — Northolt Mandeville
Atlyn Forde (Labour Party) — Northolt West End
Bassam Mahfouz (Labour Party) — Northolt West End
Dee Martin (Labour Party) — Northolt West End
Ghulam Murtaza (Labour Party) — Norwood Green
Jags Sanghera (Labour Party) — Norwood Green
John Martin (Independent / Other) — Norwood Green
Charan Sharma (Labour Party) — Perivale
Munir Ahmed (Labour Party) — Perivale
Tariq Mahmood (Labour Party) — Perivale
Ben Wesson (Labour Party) — Pitshanger
Rima Baaklini (Labour Party) — Pitshanger
Shaira Karimi (Labour Party) — Pitshanger
Husam Alharahsheh (Green Party (E&W)) — South Acton
Katie Douglas (Labour Party) — South Acton
Yvonne Johnson (Labour Party) — South Acton
Kamaljit Nagpal (Labour Party) — Southall Broadway
Shahbaz Ahmed (Labour Party) — Southall Broadway
Jasbir Anand (Labour Party) — Southall Green
Kamaljit Dhindsa (Labour Party) — Southall Green
Peter Mason (Labour Party) — Southall Green
Faduma Mohamed (Labour Party) — Southall West
Kim Nagpal (Labour Party) — Southall West
Andrew Steed (Liberal Democrats) — Southfield
Gary Busuttil (Liberal Democrats) — Southfield
Gary Malcolm (Liberal Democrats) — Southfield
Ksenia Maximova (Liberal Democrats) — Walpole
Matt Mellor (Liberal Democrats) — Walpole
Will Francis (Liberal Democrats) — Walpole

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.

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