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Newham: 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 Newham: London borough (unitary), England, London; part of the GLA combined authority. GOV.UK lists it as a unitary council. ONS code E09000025.

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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 Newham for 2026–27: £1,433.72 of a £1,944.23 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: 1 opened (1 academy converter), 3 closed (1 closure, 1 result of amalgamation/merger, 1 academy converter)

Calverton Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: closure, 31 August 2026
Odessa Infant School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: result of amalgamation/merger, 31 August 2026
Plashet School (secondary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 December 2025
Plashet, City of London Academy (secondary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 January 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 Newham reported it to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in England.

Newham: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
Service	Budget
Education services	£308.0 million
Highways and transport services	−£10.6 million
Children's social care	£126.1 million
Adult social care	£145.4 million
Public health	£41.3 million
Housing services (general fund only)	£103.5 million
Cultural and related services	£11.5 million
Environmental and regulatory services	£38.1 million
Planning and development services	£4.9 million
Police services	none budgeted
Fire and rescue services	none budgeted
Central services	£33.7 million
Other services	none budgeted
Total service expenditure	£801.8 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).

Newham in numbers

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

Total population: 374,523 people 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMid-year estimate of the total number of people
Median age: 31 years 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMedian age of people
Gross disposable household income per head: £24,514 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage income per person (£) after taxes and direct benefits
Gross median weekly pay: £689 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsGross median weekly pay based on where people live (£)
Children in relative poverty after housing costs: 44.9% 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: 7.8% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsPercentage of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming unemployment-related benefits
Average house price: £390,349 July 2026 · HM Land RegistryAverage monthly price of a property (£)
Housing affordability ratio (residence-based): 10.6 affordability ratio 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsRatio of median house price to median gross annual residence-based earnings
Female healthy life expectancy: 63.1 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: 62.8 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: 2.9 tCO2e per capita 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) per capita
Gigabit capable broadband: 91.9% 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: 159.4 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: 15,605 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

66 seats in 2026. Run by: LAB Mayor, with a majority. Open Council Data (public domain).

Councillors by party: Labour Party 26, Newham Independents Party 24, Green Party (E&W) 16.

Next scheduled council election: 2 May 2030.

All 66 councillors, by ward

Blossom Young (Labour Party) — Beckton
Syed Ahmed (Labour Party) — Beckton
Tonii Wilson (Labour Party) — Beckton
Mehmood Mirza (Newham Independents Party) — Boleyn
Moniba Khan (Newham Independents Party) — Boleyn
Muhammad Aziz (Newham Independents Party) — Boleyn
Aleya Hussain (Labour Party) — Canning Town North
Imogen Anderson (Green Party (E&W)) — Canning Town North
Shaban Mohammed (Labour Party) — Canning Town North
Aderonke Benson (Labour Party) — Canning Town South
John Morris (Labour Party) — Canning Town South
Rohit Dasgupta (Labour Party) — Canning Town South
Heather Lafferty (Labour Party) — Custom House
Simon Rush (Labour Party) — Custom House
Thelma Odoi (Labour Party) — Custom House
Abdul Halim (Newham Independents Party) — East Ham
Begum Sahera (Newham Independents Party) — East Ham
Syed Naqvi (Newham Independents Party) — East Ham
Lakmini Shah (Labour Party) — East Ham South
Sanawar Hussain (Labour Party) — East Ham South
Susan Masters (Labour Party) — East Ham South
Matthew Carlile (Green Party (E&W)) — Forest Gate North
Rachel Tripp (Labour Party) — Forest Gate North
Arshan Baskaran (Green Party (E&W)) — Forest Gate South
Jack Pickard (Green Party (E&W)) — Forest Gate South
Zahra Kheyre (Green Party (E&W)) — Forest Gate South
Rohima Rahman (Labour Party) — Green Street East
Sunny Chowdhury (Newham Independents Party) — Green Street East
Zakir Hossain (Newham Independents Party) — Green Street East
Idris Ibrahim (Newham Independents Party) — Green Street West
Qasim Yaseen (Newham Independents Party) — Green Street West
Rumana Liza (Newham Independents Party) — Green Street West
Nasreen Shamima (Newham Independents Party) — Little Ilford
Oli Rahman (Newham Independents Party) — Little Ilford
Tahir Mirza (Newham Independents Party) — Little Ilford
Imam Haque (Labour Party) — Manor Park
Salema Khatun (Labour Party) — Manor Park
Salim Patel (Labour Party) — Manor Park
Kelly Drake (Green Party (E&W)) — Maryland
Ren Tilbury (Green Party (E&W)) — Maryland
Nizam Ali (Newham Independents Party) — Plaistow North
Sophia Naqvi (Newham Independents Party) — Plaistow North
Zulfiqar Ali (Labour Party) — Plaistow North
Nazrul Islam (Newham Independents Party) — Plaistow South
Obaid Khan (Newham Independents Party) — Plaistow South
Tamzied Khan (Newham Independents Party) — Plaistow South
Madeleine Pontin (Labour Party) — Plaistow West & Canning Town East
Robert Gordon (Labour Party) — Plaistow West & Canning Town East
Shantu Ferdous (Labour Party) — Plaistow West & Canning Town East
Ilyas Sharif (Newham Independents Party) — Plashet
Zuber Gulamussen (Newham Independents Party) — Plashet
Ann Easter (Labour Party) — Royal Albert
Poojitha Konkati (Green Party (E&W)) — Royal Albert
Rob Callender (Green Party (E&W)) — Royal Victoria
Shabd Pyari (Green Party (E&W)) — Royal Victoria
Danny Keeling (Green Party (E&W)) — Stratford
Joe Hudson-Small (Green Party (E&W)) — Stratford
Nate Higgins (Green Party (E&W)) — Stratford
Chae Hwang (Green Party (E&W)) — Stratford Olympic Park
Sonia Quintero (Green Party (E&W)) — Stratford Olympic Park
Kumar Anand (Newham Independents Party) — Wall End
Muhammad Majeed (Newham Independents Party) — Wall End
Noman Abu (Newham Independents Party) — Wall End
Adjoa Kwarteng (Labour Party) — West Ham
Ibrahim Alom (Green Party (E&W)) — West Ham
John Gray (Labour Party) — West Ham

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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