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Redbridge: 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 Redbridge: London borough (unitary), England, London; part of the GLA combined authority. GOV.UK lists it as a unitary council. ONS code E09000026.

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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 Redbridge for 2026–27: £1,784.07 of a £2,294.58 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)

Avon House Preparatory School — closed; reason recorded: closure, 4 August 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 Redbridge reported it to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in England.

Redbridge: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
Service	Budget
Education services	£415.2 million
Highways and transport services	£3.7 million
Children's social care	£73.4 million
Adult social care	£126.6 million
Public health	£18.2 million
Housing services (general fund only)	£44.8 million
Cultural and related services	£12.7 million
Environmental and regulatory services	£23.3 million
Planning and development services	£4.7 million
Police services	none budgeted
Fire and rescue services	none budgeted
Central services	£14.8 million
Other services	£50.4 million
Total service expenditure	£787.8 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).

Redbridge in numbers

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

Total population: 321,231 people 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMid-year estimate of the total number of people
Median age: 35 years 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMedian age of people
Gross disposable household income per head: £27,711 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage income per person (£) after taxes and direct benefits
Gross median weekly pay: £699 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsGross median weekly pay based on where people live (£)
Children in relative poverty after housing costs: 30.5% 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: 6.0% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsPercentage of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming unemployment-related benefits
Average house price: £481,297 July 2026 · HM Land RegistryAverage monthly price of a property (£)
Housing affordability ratio (residence-based): 11.2 affordability ratio 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsRatio of median house price to median gross annual residence-based earnings
Female healthy life expectancy: 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: 63.5 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: 2.1 tCO2e per capita 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) per capita
Gigabit capable broadband: 93.3% 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: 198.3 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: 17,230 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

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

Councillors by party: Labour Party 43, Redbridge Independents 9, Conservative and Unionist 5, Green Party (E&W) 5, Reform UK 1.

Next scheduled council election: 2 May 2030.

All 63 councillors, by ward

Jyotsna Islam (Labour Party) — Aldborough
Kam Rai (Labour Party) — Aldborough
Lebo Phakoe (Labour Party) — Aldborough
Harminder Bal (Labour Party) — Barkingside
Martin Sachs (Labour Party) — Barkingside
Syeda Pasha (Labour Party) — Barkingside
Adam Joiner (Conservative and Unionist) — Bridge
Josiah Moseley (Conservative and Unionist) — Bridge
Stephen Adams (Conservative and Unionist) — Bridge
Bert Jones (Labour Party) — Chadwell
Muhammad Afzal (Redbridge Independents) — Chadwell
Niamh Atkins (Green Party (E&W)) — Chadwell
Guy Williams (Labour Party) — Churchfields
Judith Garfield (Labour Party) — Churchfields
Lloyd Duddridge (Labour Party) — Churchfields
Jamal Uddin (Labour Party) — Clayhall
Kalpana Bose (Labour Party) — Clayhall
Kamal Qureshi (Labour Party) — Clayhall
Fazlul Haque (Redbridge Independents) — Clementswood
Muhammed Javed (Labour Party) — Clementswood
Zulfiqar Hussain (Labour Party) — Clementswood
Feza Haque (Redbridge Independents) — Cranbrook
Mohamed Haleemdeen (Redbridge Independents) — Cranbrook
Mushtaq Ahmed (Labour Party) — Cranbrook
Bob Chattaway (Labour Party) — Fairlop
Erza Doda (Labour Party) — Fairlop
Yogesh Saini (Labour Party) — Fairlop
Linda Mullis (Labour Party) — Fullwell
Matthew Goddin (Labour Party) — Fullwell
Vibhu Taneja (Labour Party) — Fullwell
Ben Cornish (Labour Party) — Goodmayes
Prabjit Gurm (Labour Party) — Goodmayes
Shorif Akhonda (Labour Party) — Goodmayes
Helen Mullis (Labour Party) — Hainault
Neil Anderson (Reform UK) — Hainault
Shah Ali (Labour Party) — Hainault
Hossain Enamul (Redbridge Independents) — Ilford Town
Saima Ahmed (Labour Party) — Ilford Town
Foyzur Rahman (Labour Party) — Loxford
Mazhar Saleem (Labour Party) — Loxford
Sahdia Warraich (Labour Party) — Loxford
Harneek Kaur (Labour Party) — Mayfield
Noor Begum (Redbridge Independents) — Mayfield
Rishi Bhagi (Labour Party) — Mayfield
Clark Vasey (Conservative and Unionist) — Monkhams
Joel Herga (Conservative and Unionist) — Monkhams
Sunny Brar (Labour Party) — Newbury
Syeda Choudhury (Labour Party) — Newbury
Thavathuray Jeyaranjan (Labour Party) — Newbury
Imran Ahmed (Redbridge Independents) — Seven Kings
Nav Johal (Labour Party) — Seven Kings
Vanisha Solanki (Labour Party) — Seven Kings
Beverley Brewer (Labour Party) — South Woodford
Kallan Greybe (Green Party (E&W)) — South Woodford
Monika Patel (Green Party (E&W)) — South Woodford
Alex Charlton-Holmes (Labour Party) — Valentines
Marwan Elfallah (Redbridge Independents) — Valentines
Rashida Choudhery (Redbridge Independents) — Valentines
Emma Shepherd-Mallinson (Labour Party) — Wanstead Park
Milli Clack (Green Party (E&W)) — Wanstead Park
Daniel Morgan-Thomas (Labour Party) — Wanstead Village
Jo Blackman (Labour Party) — Wanstead Village
Susan Whitehead (Green Party (E&W)) — Wanstead Village

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.