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Mid and East Antrim: 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.

Mid and East Antrim Borough Council: NI district (ni district), Northern Ireland. GOV.UK lists it as a unitary council. ONS code N09000008.

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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Mid and East Antrim in numbers

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

Total population
139,913 people 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMid-year estimate of the total number of people
Median age
43 years 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMedian age of people
Gross disposable household income per head
£22,320 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage income per person (£) after taxes and direct benefits
Gross median weekly pay
£580 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsGross median weekly pay based on where people live (£)
Children in relative poverty after housing costs
20.2% 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
3.0% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsPercentage of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming unemployment-related benefits
Average house price
£177,450 July 2026 · HM Land RegistryAverage monthly price of a property (£)
Female healthy life expectancy
60.5 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
60.5 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
9.5 tCO2e per capita 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) per capita
Gigabit capable broadband
95.2% 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
53.6 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
4,030 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. 12, Ulster Unionist Party 8, Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland 7, Traditional Unionist Voice - TUV 6, Sinn Féin 4, Independent / Other 3.

Next scheduled council election: 6 May 2027.

All 40 councillors, by ward
  • Bréanainn Lyness (Sinn Féin) — Ballymena
  • Brian Thompson (Ulster Unionist Party) — Ballymena
  • Jack Gibson (Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) — Ballymena
  • Lawrie Philpott (Independent / Other) — Ballymena
  • Matthew Armstrong (Traditional Unionist Voice - TUV) — Ballymena
  • Reuben Glover (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Ballymena
  • Rodney Quigley (Independent / Other) — Ballymena
  • Anna Henry (Traditional Unionist Voice - TUV) — Bannside
  • Ian Friary (Sinn Féin) — Bannside
  • Jackson Minford (Ulster Unionist Party) — Bannside
  • Stewart McDonald (Traditional Unionist Voice - TUV) — Bannside
  • Thomas Gordon (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Bannside
  • Tyler Hoey (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Bannside
  • Alan Barr (Ulster Unionist Party) — Braid
  • Archie Rae (Sinn Féin) — Braid
  • Chelsea Harwood (Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) — Braid
  • Christopher Jamieson (Traditional Unionist Voice - TUV) — Braid
  • Matthew Warwick (Traditional Unionist Voice - TUV) — Braid
  • Ruth Lawrence (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Braid
  • William McCaughey (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Braid
  • Bethany Ferris (Ulster Unionist Party) — Carrick Castle
  • Billy Ashe (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Carrick Castle
  • David Clarke (Traditional Unionist Voice - TUV) — Carrick Castle
  • Lauren Gray (Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) — Carrick Castle
  • Robin Stewart (Ulster Unionist Party) — Carrick Castle
  • Andrew Clarke (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Coast Road
  • Angela Smyth (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Coast Road
  • Gerardine Mulvenna (Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) — Coast Road
  • James McKeown (Sinn Féin) — Coast Road
  • Maureen Morrow (Ulster Unionist Party) — Coast Road
  • Aaron Skinner (Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) — Knockagh
  • Andrew Wilson (Ulster Unionist Party) — Knockagh
  • Bobby Hadden (Independent / Other) — Knockagh
  • Marc Collins (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Knockagh
  • Peter Johnston (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Knockagh
  • Gregg McKeen (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Larne Lough
  • Maeve Donnelly (Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) — Larne Lough
  • Paul Reid (Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P.) — Larne Lough
  • Robert Logan (Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) — Larne Lough
  • Roy Beggs (Ulster Unionist Party) — Larne Lough

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.