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Hounslow: 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 Hounslow: London borough (unitary), England, London; part of the GLA combined authority. GOV.UK lists it as a unitary council. ONS code E09000018.

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Do it online

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 Hounslow for 2026–27: £1,675.05 of a £2,185.56 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: 0 opened, 1 closed (1 closure)

Oak Heights Independent School — closed; reason recorded: closure, 16 October 2025

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 Hounslow reported it to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in England.

Hounslow: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
Service	Budget
Education services	£270.7 million
Highways and transport services	£29.5 million
Children's social care	£78.3 million
Adult social care	£136.8 million
Public health	£20.8 million
Housing services (general fund only)	£26.3 million
Cultural and related services	£13.0 million
Environmental and regulatory services	£20.6 million
Planning and development services	£1.8 million
Police services	none budgeted
Fire and rescue services	none budgeted
Central services	£18.1 million
Other services	none budgeted
Total service expenditure	£615.9 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).

Hounslow in numbers

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

Total population: 299,424 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: £29,788 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage income per person (£) after taxes and direct benefits
Gross median weekly pay: £702 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsGross median weekly pay based on where people live (£)
Children in relative poverty after housing costs: 32.3% 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: 5.2% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsPercentage of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming unemployment-related benefits
Average house price: £525,435 July 2026 · HM Land RegistryAverage monthly price of a property (£)
Housing affordability ratio (residence-based): 11.9 affordability ratio 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsRatio of median house price to median gross annual residence-based earnings
Female healthy life expectancy: 59.4 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: 59.6 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: 3.4 tCO2e per capita 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) per capita
Gigabit capable broadband: 91.4% 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: 233.4 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: 14,740 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

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

Councillors by party: Labour Party 32, Conservative and Unionist 17, Reform UK 8, Green Party (E&W) 3, Liberal Democrats 1, Brentford, Isleworth, Heston & Hounslow Independents 1.

Next scheduled council election: 2 May 2030.

All 62 councillors, by ward

Adesh Farmahan (Labour Party) — Bedfont
Gerry Lieberman (Reform UK) — Bedfont
Russell Haynes (Reform UK) — Bedfont
Marcela Benedetti (Labour Party) — Brentford East
Max Mosley (Labour Party) — Brentford East
Craig Owen (Labour Party) — Brentford West
Guy Lambert (Green Party (E&W)) — Brentford West
Joanna Biddolph (Conservative and Unionist) — Chiswick Gunnersbury
Ron Mushiso (Conservative and Unionist) — Chiswick Gunnersbury
Vickram Grewal (Conservative and Unionist) — Chiswick Gunnersbury
Jack Emsley (Conservative and Unionist) — Chiswick Homefields
Linden Grigg (Conservative and Unionist) — Chiswick Homefields
Michael Denniss (Conservative and Unionist) — Chiswick Homefields
Amy Croft (Labour Party) — Chiswick Riverside
Gabriella Giles (Conservative and Unionist) — Chiswick Riverside
Rick Rowe (Green Party (E&W)) — Chiswick Riverside
Gurpreet Sidhu (Conservative and Unionist) — Cranford
Hira Dhillon (Labour Party) — Cranford
Vilber Decosta (Conservative and Unionist) — Cranford
Adam Parkins (Reform UK) — Feltham North
David Kerr (Reform UK) — Feltham North
Muhammad Akram (Labour Party) — Feltham North
Alan Mitchell (Labour Party) — Feltham West
Madeeha Asim (Labour Party) — Feltham West
Tony Brown (Reform UK) — Feltham West
Adrian Page (Reform UK) — Hanworth Park
Johan Lindsten (Reform UK) — Hanworth Park
Aysha Tariq (Labour Party) — Hanworth Village
Conrad Brown (Reform UK) — Hanworth Village
Tariq Mehmood (Labour Party) — Hanworth Village
Parinoor Kaur (Conservative and Unionist) — Heston Central
Salvador Pereira (Conservative and Unionist) — Heston Central
Sampath Mudaliar (Conservative and Unionist) — Heston Central
Fiza Ahmed (Labour Party) — Heston East
Gurbachan Athwal (Labour Party) — Heston East
Jasmine Deol (Green Party (E&W)) — Heston East
Lily Bath (Labour Party) — Heston West
Satwant Kaur (Conservative and Unionist) — Heston West
Shantanu Rajawat (Labour Party) — Heston West
Ajmer Grewal (Labour Party) — Hounslow Central
Pamila Rodrigues (Labour Party) — Hounslow Central
Pritam Grewal (Labour Party) — Hounslow Central
Daanish Saeed (Labour Party) — Hounslow East
Paul Baker (Labour Party) — Hounslow East
Darshan Nagi (Conservative and Unionist) — Hounslow Heath
Sahibaa Hussain (Labour Party) — Hounslow Heath
Samia Chaudhary (Labour Party) — Hounslow Heath
Karen Smith (Labour Party) — Hounslow South
Scott Hill (Labour Party) — Hounslow South
Tom Bruce (Labour Party) — Hounslow South
Allister De Sa (Conservative and Unionist) — Hounslow West
Charmi Parmar (Conservative and Unionist) — Hounslow West
Vivek Ganachari (Conservative and Unionist) — Hounslow West
Roger Crouch (Liberal Democrats) — Isleworth
Salman Shaheen (Labour Party) — Isleworth
Sue Sampson (Labour Party) — Isleworth
Ranjit Gill (Labour Party) — Osterley & Spring Grove
Tony Louki (Labour Party) — Osterley & Spring Grove
Unsa Chaudri (Labour Party) — Osterley & Spring Grove
Dan Bowring (Labour Party) — Syon & Brentford Lock
Katherine Dunne (Labour Party) — Syon & Brentford Lock
Theo Dennison (Brentford, Isleworth, Heston & Hounslow Independents) — Syon & Brentford Lock

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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