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Havering: 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 Havering: London borough (unitary), England, London; part of the GLA combined authority. GOV.UK lists it as a unitary council. ONS code E09000016.

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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

Band D set by Havering for 2026–27: £1,914.15 of a £2,424.66 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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What the council plans to spend, 2026–27

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

Havering: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
Service	Budget
Education services	£281.2 million
Highways and transport services	£9.0 million
Children's social care	£85.0 million
Adult social care	£139.1 million
Public health	£14.6 million
Housing services (general fund only)	£24.4 million
Cultural and related services	£4.2 million
Environmental and regulatory services	£18.9 million
Planning and development services	£3.5 million
Police services	none budgeted
Fire and rescue services	none budgeted
Central services	£14.0 million
Other services	£1.7 million
Total service expenditure	£595.6 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).

Havering in numbers

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

Total population: 276,274 people 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMid-year estimate of the total number of people
Median age: 38 years 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMedian age of people
Gross disposable household income per head: £27,374 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage income per person (£) after taxes and direct benefits
Gross median weekly pay: £772 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsGross median weekly pay based on where people live (£)
Children in relative poverty after housing costs: 23.5% 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: 4.4% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsPercentage of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming unemployment-related benefits
Average house price: £448,648 July 2026 · HM Land RegistryAverage monthly price of a property (£)
Housing affordability ratio (residence-based): 9.8 affordability ratio 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsRatio of median house price to median gross annual residence-based earnings
Female healthy life expectancy: 63.3 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: 63.8 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: 3.3 tCO2e per capita 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) per capita
Gigabit capable broadband: 91.2% 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: 94.5 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: 11,880 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

55 seats in 2026. Run by: Reform UK, with a majority. Open Council Data (public domain).

Councillors by party: Reform UK 39, Upminster and Cranham Residents Association 6, Hornchurch Residents Association 4, Harold Wood Hill Park Residents Association 3, Labour Party 2, Rainham Resident's Association 1.

Next scheduled council election: 2 May 2030.

All 55 councillors, by ward

Matthew Stanton (Labour Party) — Beam Park
Trevor McKeever (Labour Party) — Beam Park
Gillian Ford (Upminster and Cranham Residents Association) — Cranham
John Tyler (Upminster and Cranham Residents Association) — Cranham
Lesley Tyler (Upminster and Cranham Residents Association) — Cranham
Barry Mugglestone (Hornchurch Residents Association) — Elm Park
Kimberley Gould (Hornchurch Residents Association) — Elm Park
Stephanie Nunn (Hornchurch Residents Association) — Elm Park
Alex Sibley (Reform UK) — Emerson Park
David Johnson (Reform UK) — Emerson Park
Keith Prince (Reform UK) — Gooshays
Liz Tyler (Reform UK) — Gooshays
Robert Whitton (Reform UK) — Gooshays
Geoff Burgess (Reform UK) — Hacton
Julie Wilkes (Hornchurch Residents Association) — Hacton
Brian Eagling (Harold Wood Hill Park Residents Association) — Harold Wood
Darren Wise (Harold Wood Hill Park Residents Association) — Harold Wood
Martin Goode (Harold Wood Hill Park Residents Association) — Harold Wood
Della Morton (Reform UK) — Havering-atte-Bower
Graham Edwards (Reform UK) — Havering-atte-Bower
Paul Sullivan (Reform UK) — Havering-atte-Bower
Iurie Bivol (Reform UK) — Heaton
Kevin Ayres (Reform UK) — Heaton
Khuram Amin (Reform UK) — Heaton
Kevin Gill (Reform UK) — Hylands & Harrow Lodge
Maggie Themistocli (Reform UK) — Hylands & Harrow Lodge
Sean McMahon (Reform UK) — Hylands & Harrow Lodge
Bailey Nash-Gardner (Reform UK) — Marshalls & Rise Park
Gary Payne (Reform UK) — Marshalls & Rise Park
Robert Benham (Reform UK) — Marshalls & Rise Park
Geoff Starns (Reform UK) — Mawneys
Graham Day (Reform UK) — Mawneys
Sue Benjamins (Reform UK) — Mawneys
George Harwin (Reform UK) — Rainham & Wennington
Joe Lock (Reform UK) — Rainham & Wennington
Sue Ospreay (Rainham Resident's Association) — Rainham & Wennington
Alex Donald (Reform UK) — Rush Green & Crowlands
Henry Williams (Reform UK) — Rush Green & Crowlands
Petru Dinsorean (Reform UK) — Rush Green & Crowlands
Angelica Ola (Reform UK) — South Hornchurch
Luke Barry (Reform UK) — South Hornchurch
Christine Vickery (Reform UK) — Squirrels Heath
Martynas Cekavicius (Reform UK) — Squirrels Heath
Tom Vickery (Reform UK) — Squirrels Heath
Diane Smith (Reform UK) — St Alban's
Russell Smith (Reform UK) — St Alban's
Duncan Cowie (Reform UK) — St Andrew's
Malvin Brown (Reform UK) — St Andrew's
Robert Attree (Reform UK) — St Andrew's
Martin Lardner (Reform UK) — St Edward's
Sathya Maddasani (Reform UK) — St Edward's
Terry Brown (Reform UK) — St Edward's
Christopher Wilkins (Upminster and Cranham Residents Association) — Upminster
Michael Fisher (Upminster and Cranham Residents Association) — Upminster
Oscar Ford (Upminster and Cranham Residents Association) — Upminster

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.

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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.