Slough Borough Council

Officeholders

Key to parties: C Conservative, IBR Independent Britwellian Residents, Ind Independent, Lab Labour, LD Liberal Democrats, Lib Liberal, UKIP United Kingdom Independence Party.

Mayors of Slough from 1997

Council Cabinet Members from 1999

The cabinet system was introduced on 21 September 1999, to replace the traditional committee based methods of running local government.

Council Cabinet Chairs

1. John J. Connolly (Labour-Wexham Lea) appointed to Cabinet 21 September 1999, elected Chair 13 October 1999
2. Robert Anderson (Labour-Farnham) appointed to Cabinet 22 June 2001, elected Chair 28 June 2001
3. Richard Stanley Stokes (Liberal-Haymill) appointed to Cabinet 6 July 2004, elected Chair 15 July 2004
4. Robert Anderson (Labour-Farnham) appointed to Cabinet 15 May 2008, elected Chair 2008

Commissioners for Children & Young People

1. David Edward Mansell (Labour-Farnham) 13 October 1999
2. Muriel Douglas Gilmour (Labour-Wexham Lea) 20 May 2002

Commissioners for Community & Customer Services 1999-2002; Community & Culture 2002-2004

1. Mewa Singh Mann (Labour-Foxborough) 13 October 1999
2. Rajinder Singh Sandhu (Labour-Baylis) 20 May 2002

Commissioner for Culture & Leisure

1. Shafiq Ahmed Chaudhry (Labour-Central) 15 May 2008

Commissioners for Democracy & Accountability

1. Robert Anderson (Labour-Colnbrook & Poyle; Farnham 2000) 13 October 1999
2. George Henry Davidson (Labour-Baylis; Chalvey 2003) 22 June 2001

Commissioners for Economic & Environment 1999-2002; Environmental & Economic Development 2002-2004

1. Ronald William Sibley (Labour-Central) 13 October 1999
2. Nigel Ian Rushby (Labour-Langley St Mary's) 20 May 2002
3. James Charles Robert Swindlehurst (Labour-Cippenham) 19 May 2003

Commissioners for Education 2004-2005; Education & Children's Services 2005-2008; Education & Children 2008-

1. David John Munkley (Liberal-Haymill) 24 June 2004
2. Sukhjit Kaur Dhaliwal (Labour-Farnham) 15 May 2008

Commissioner for Environment & Open Spaces

1. Sat Pal Singh Parmar (Labour-Cippenham Meadows) 15 May 2008

Commissioner for Finance & Strategy

1. Robert Anderson (Labour-Farnham) 15 May 2008

Commissioner for Health & Social Care

1. Arvind Singh Dhaliwal (Labour-Central) 20 May 2002

Commissioner for Health & Wellbeing

1. Christine Small (Labour-Kedermister) 15 May 2008

Commissioner for Housing

1. Michael Anthony Haines (Independent-Wexham Lea) 24 June 2004

Commissioners for Leisure, Cultural & Community Services

1. Mohammed Latif Khan (Independent-Wexham Lea) 24 June 2004
2. Julia Thomson Long (Conservative-Upton) 19 May 2005

Commissioner for Neighbourhood Services

1. Lydia Emelda Simmons (Labour-Central) 20 May 2002

Commissioner for Neighbourhoods & Renewal

1. James Swindlehurst (Labour-Cippenham Green) 15 May 2008

Commissioner for Opportunities & Skills

1. Patricia Josephine O'Connor (Labour-Cippenham Green) 15 May 2008
2. Fiza Ahmed Matloob (Labour-Baylis & Stoke) 12 May 2009

Commissioner for Performance & Accountability

1. Balvinder Singh Bains (Labour-Upton) 15 May 2008

Commissioner for Planning, Transportation, Legal and Democratic Services

1. Dexter Jerome Smith (Conservative-Colnbrook with Poyle) 24 June 2004

Commissioners for Public Protection

1. John William Edwards (Liberal Democrat-Foxborough) 24 June 2004
2. Duncan Peter Buchanan (Liberal Democrat-Baylis & Stoke) 19 May 2005
3. John William Edwards (Liberal Democrat-Foxborough) 18 May 2006

Commissioners for Resources & Management 2002-2004; Resources 2004-2008

1. Robert Anderson (Labour-Farnham) 20 May 2002
2. William Geoffrey Howard (Conservative; UKIP 2005-Cippenham Green) 24 June 2004

Commissioner for Social Exclusion

1. Lydia Emelda Simmons (Labour-Central) 13 October 1999

Commissioner for Social Services 2004-2006; Social Care and Social & Economic Inclusion 2006-2008

1. Derek Ernest Cryer (Conservative-Langley St Mary's) 24 June 2004

Commissioner for Young People's Services (Youth Service) & Community Safety

1. Sean Patrick Wright (Independent Britwellian Residents-Britwell) 24 June 2004

Committee Chairs 1999-2006

Chairs of Employment 2001-2004, Employment & Appeals 2004-2006

1. Rajinder Singh Sandhu (Lab-Baylis) 12 November 2001
2. Joginder Singh Bal (Lab-Farnham) 20 June 2002
3. Pervez Choudhry (Lab-Chalvey) 2003
4. Paul Janik (a) (IBR-Britwell) 2 August 2004
5. Duncan Peter Buchanan (a) (LD-Baylis & Stoke) 2 August 2004
6. Kevin Charles Pond (C-Upton) 23 June 2005

Chairs of Licensing

1. K.I. Williams (Lab-Langley St Mary's) 1 November 1999
2. Dennis McCarthy (Lab-Britwell) 25 May 2000 died 11 September 2002
3. Simon Ashley George (Lab-Stoke) 1 October 2002
4. Balwinder Singh Dhillon (C-Upton) 28 July 2004 resigned 9 August 2004
5. Patrick Shine (IBR-Britwell) 26 August 2004
6. Fiza Ahmed Matloob (Labour-Baylis & Stoke) 15 May 2008

Chairs of Planning

1. Donald Arthur Hewitt (Lab-Kedermister) 5 October 1999
2. Gurmej Singh Sandhu (Lab-Baylis) 25 June 2001
3. Ronald William Sibley (Lab-Central) 6 June 2002
4. David Ian MacIsaac (Ind-Wexham Lea) 21 July 2004
5. Steven John Burkmar (C-Colnbrook with Poyle) 16 June 2005

Chairs of Scrutiny & Overview

1. Miss E.G. Rogers (Lab-Farnham) 14 October 1999
2. William Geoffrey Howard (Lab-Cippenham) 25 May 2000
3. Donald Arthur Hewitt (Lab-Kedermister) 2 July 2001
4. Joginder Singh Bal (Lab-Farnham) 2003
5. Robert Anderson (Lab-Farnham) 27 July 2004

Chair of Standards

1. Rev. Paul Lipscomb (b) (Ind-Co-opted) 8 June 1999

Group leaders from 1997

Note (a): Britwellian, Independent, Liberal & Liberal Democrat Group; previously Liberal Group (1997-2000) and Independent, Liberal & Liberal Democrat Group (2000-2003).

Wards of Slough

Slough was first warded for the Slough Council election 1930, when seven wards began to be used; Burnham (in the south-west of the district, the area now known as Cippenham), Central, Chalvey (to the south-west of Central and east of Burnham), Farnham (the north-west of the district), Langley (to the east of the district), Stoke (in the north of the district) and Upton (to the south-east of Central). Before the Slough Council election 1950 Burnham, Central, Farnham and Stoke were divided into North and South parts, making a total of eleven wards.

In 1973 the expanded Slough district acquired two more wards, Britwell and Wexham Court (then using the same boundaries as the parishes newly included in the Slough area). The existing wards were not then redistributed but the number of seats was varied from the previous three each, so that wards returned between two and nine Councillors.

For the Slough Council election 1983 there was a re-warding which created thirteen three-member wards. With the latest extension of the Borough in 1995 the new parish of Colnbrook with Poyle became the single-member Borough ward of Colnbrook & Poyle. Colnbrook & Poyle was given a second seat for the Slough Council election 1997.

The thirteen wards established in 1983, plus Colnbrook with Poyle, were the wards used by the unitary authority between Slough Council election 1997 and Slough Council election 2003.

For Slough Council election 2004 the Borough was re-warded. There continue to be fourteen wards, but only Colnbrook with Poyle (formerly Colnbrook & Poyle) and Haymill had unchanged boundaries.

Brief notes on the individual wards used since 1997.

Baylis (1983-2004) was a former three-member ward in the north of the Borough, to the south of Stoke. It was named after Baylis House and the estate of Baylis, which from the sixteenth century was a sub-division of the parish of Stoke Poges. This was a safe Labour ward, which only elected Labour Councillors throughout its existence. Councillors by Party: (1997-2004) 3 Labour.

Baylis & Stoke (born 2004) is a three-member ward in the north of the Borough. It broadly combined the former Baylis and Stoke wards. The Liberal Democrats, building on the Liberal tradition of the former Stoke ward, won all three seats in 2004. Councillors by Party: (2004-2006) 3 Liberal Democrats; (2006-) 2 Liberal Democrats, 1 Labour; (2007-) 2 Labour, 1 Liberal Democrats; (2008-) 3 Labour.

Britwell (born 1973) is a three-member ward in the north-west of the Borough. It includes Britwell parish, although since 1983 some unparished territory was added. Britwell had elected some Liberal Councillors in the 1980s but was otherwise safely Labour until 2000. Since then Britwellian and Independent Britwellian Residents Councillors have become increasinhly successful. In 1997 Labour won all three seats, but in 2004 the Residents took the three seats. Councillors by Party: (1997-2000) 3 Labour; (2000–2002) 2 Labour, 1 Britwellian; (2002) 2 Britwellian, 1 Labour; (2002-2003) 2 Independent Britwellian Residents, 1 Labour; (2003-) 3 Independent Britwellian Residents.

Central (1930-1950 and 1983-) has had different boundaries during the three redistributions in which it has existed, but it has always been a three-member ward with Wexham to the north, Langley to the east, Upton to the south, Chalvey to the south-west and Baylis & Stoke to the west. It was part of the original parish of Upton-cum-Chalvey, although the hamlet of Slough (a few scattered houses and coaching inns along the Great West Road and Windsor Road) was smaller than the villages of Upton and Chalvey until the Great Western Railway arrived in the 1840s. It was a safe Labour ward under the 1983 boundaries, but in 2004 the Conservatives won two of the three seats of the revised ward. Councillors by Party: (1997-2004) 3 Labour; (2004–2006) 2 Conservative, 1 Labour; (2006-) 2 Labour, 1 Conservative.

Chalvey (born 1930), (in the south of the Borough) is a three-member ward. It was part of the ancient parish of Upton-cum-Chalvey and was an original ward of Slough. The ward has existed in some form continuously since 1930. Before 1970 Chalvey was Conservative but since then it has been safely Labour. The Liberal Democrats came within ten votes of winning a seat in the ward in 2004. Councillors by Party: (born 1997) 3 Labour.

Cippenham (1983-2004) was a three-member ward in the south-west of the Borough. Cippenham was a village and now is a suburb of Slough. It saw considerable population growth in the 1990s with the development of the Windsor Meadows estate. This ward formed the core of two new wards from 2004. Cippenham was one of the more politically marginal areas of Slough. It was Conservative in 1983-1984, 1987, 1992, 1999 and 2003 (six elections), but went Labour in 1986, 1988-1991, 1994-1997 and 2000-2002 (eleven elections). Councillors by Party: (1997-2001) 2 Labour, 1 Conservative; (2001-2002) 2 Conservative, 1 Labour; (2002-2004) 2 Labour, 1 Conservative.

Cippenham Green (born 2004) is a three-member ward in the south-west of the Borough. It was one of the two wards based on the old Cippenham Ward. This area is the western part of the previous ward, incorporates the old village area (including the Green which the ward is named after). In 2004 it elected 1 Conservative (since defected to UKIP) and 2 Labour Councillors. Councillors by Party: (2004-2005) 2 Labour, 1 Conservative; (2005-) 2 Labour, 1 UK Independence.

Cippenham Meadows (born 2004) is a three-member ward in the south-west of the Borough. It was one of the two wards based on the old Cippenham Ward. This area is the eastern part of the previous ward, incorporates the Windsor Meadows development area (which presumably are the Meadows which the ward is named after). The ward elected 3 Labour Councillors in 2004. Councillors by Party: (born 2004) 3 Labour.

Colnbrook & Poyle (1995-2004), Colnbrook with Poyle (born 2004) is a (since 1997) two-member ward in the furthest east part of the Borough between to the M4 motorway and Greater London. Labour elected some Councillors here, in 1995 and 1997 (1 seat), but by 2004 the ward was safely Conservative. Councillors by Party: (1997-2000) 1 Conservative, 1 Labour; (2000-) 2 Conservative.

Farnham (1930-1950 and 1983-) is a three-member ward in the west of the Borough. It was named after the old Farnham Royal Parish. This is a safe Labour Ward, in 2004 as before. Councillors by Party: (born 1997) 3 Labour.

Foxborough (born 1983) is a three-member ward in south (1983-2004) and now south-east Langley in the eastern part of the Borough. It is named after a 4-acre (16,000 m²) area mentioned in connection with the inclosure of Langley Marish parish in 1809. This was the ward where the Liberal Democrats won their first election in Slough and the party held all three seats after the 2004 election. Councillors by Party: (1997-2000) 3 Labour; (2000–2004) 2 Labour, 1 Liberal Democrat; (2004-) 3 Liberal Democrats.

Haymill (born 1983) is a three-member ward in the west of the Borough (to the east of Farnham ward), which was left unchanged by the 2004 redistribution. It is a safe Liberal ward having last elected a non-Liberal Councillor in 1984. Councillors by Party: (born 1997) 3 Liberal.

Kedermister (born 1983) is a three-member ward in south-west Langley, in the eastern part of the Borough. The ward was named after Sir John Kedermister (or Kidderminster), who was Warden of Langley Park and founded some almshouses in Langley in 1617. It is a safe Labour ward. Councillors by Party: (born 1997) 3 Labour.

Langley St Mary's (born 1983) is a three-member ward in north Langley, in the eastern part of the Borough. St Mary's is named after the church in Langley. This has been a Labour/Conservative marginal ward, but in 2004 the Independent Langley Residents won two seats and tied for the third (which the Conservative candidate won on a roll of dice, so he was credited with an additional vote). The Conservative party gained one of the seats from the Independent Langley Residents in late 2006. Councillors by Party: (1997-2000) 2 Labour, 1 Conservative; (2000-2004) 2 Conservative, 1 Labour; (2004-2006) 2 Independent Langley Residents, 1 Conservative; (2006-) 2 Conservative, 1 Independent Langley Residents..

Stoke (1930-1950 and 1983-2004) was a three-member ward in the north of the Borough, to the north of Baylis and west of Central. It was named after Stoke Poges parish. This is an area with a Liberal tradition. The Liberals held the then Stoke South ward 1973-1983 and Stoke North 1979-1983. Stoke ward was a Labour/Liberal marginal. Tight elections were common. For example, the Labour majority in 1986 was three. Councillors by Party: (1997-2000) 3 Labour; (2000–2002) 2 Labour, 1 Liberal; (2002-2004) 3 Labour.

Upton (born 1930), part of the original parish of Upton-cum-Chalvey (in the south of the modern Borough), was an original ward which has existed in some form continuously since 1930. It is a three-seat ward. Upton was the most Conservative area of Slough until demographic change made Labour competitive. Labour won the ward for the first time ever in 1990. In 1997 Labour won two seats and the Conservatives one. At the 2004 election the Conservatives won all three seats, although one Councillor has since become an Independent Conservative. Councillors by Party: (1997-1999) 2 Labour, 1 Conservative; (1999-2001) 3 Conservative; (2001-2002) 2 Conservative, 1 Labour; (2002-2004) 2 Labour, 1 Conservative; (2004) 3 Conservative; (2004-2006) 2 Conservative, 1 Independent Conservative; (2006-) 1 Conservative, 1 Independent Conservative, 1 Labour.

Wexham Lea (born 1983) is a three-member ward in the north of the Borough, to the east of Stoke and the north of Central ward. It combines Wexham Court parish and an area known as Upton Lea. The ward was formerly safely Labour but is now securely held by Independent Councillors who won all three seats in 2004. Councillors by Party: (1997-2000) 3 Labour; (2000–2002) 2 Labour, 1 Independent; (2002-2004) 2 Independent, 1 Labour; (2004-) 3 Independent.

Members of Slough Borough Council 1997

The Slough Council election 1997 was a whole Council election for a new authority. It was the 114th Slough General local election (including both elections by thirds and whole Council elections). Fourteen members (who received the highest vote in each ward) were elected for a full four year term, fourteen members (who finished second in each ward) were to serve for three years and the remaining thirteen Councillors (who had finished third in all the wards except for the two member Colnbrook with Poyle ward) were given two year terms.

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Changes 1997-1999

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Elected 1999 (third of Council)

The Slough Council election 1999 was to elect a third of the Council for a three year term (13 members). The seats were last contested in 1997. It was the 115th Slough General local election. There was also an election to fill a vacant second seat in Upton ward for the balance of the term to 2001. The candidate who finished first in Upton would win the term to 2002 and the one who came second would serve for the remainder of the term to 2001.

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Elected 2000 (third of Council)

The Slough Council election 2000 was to elect a third of the Council for a three year term (14 members). It was the 116th Slough General local election. The seats were last contested in 1997.

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Changes 2000-2001

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Elected 2001 (third of Council)

The Slough Council election 2001 was to elect a third of the Council for a three year term (14 members). It was the 117th Slough General local election. The seats were last contested in 1997.

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Elected 2002 (third of Council)

The Slough Council election 2002 was to elect a third of the Council for a two year term (13 members). It was the 118th Slough General local election. The seats were last contested in 1999. There was also an election to fill a vacant second seat in Stoke ward for the balance of the term to 2003. The candidate who finished first in Stoke would win the term to 2004 and the one who came second would serve for the remainder of the term to 2003.

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Changes 2002-2003

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Elected 2003 (third of Council)

The Slough Council election 2003 was to elect a third of the Council for a one year term (14 members). It was the 119th Slough General local election. The seats were last contested in 2000.

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Members of Slough Borough Council 2004

The Slough Council election 2004 was a whole Council election using new ward boundaries. It was the 120th Slough General local election (including both elections by thirds and whole Council elections) since 1863. Fourteen members (who received the highest vote in each ward) were elected for a full four year term, fourteen members (who finished second in each ward) were to serve for three years and the remaining thirteen Councillors (who had finished third in all the wards except for the two member Colnbrook with Poyle ward) were given two year terms.

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Changes 2004-2006

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Elected 2006 (third of Council)

The Slough Council election 2006 was to elect a third of the Council for a four year term (13 members). It was the 121st Slough General local election. The seats were last contested in 2004.

Change 2006-2007

Elected 2007 (third of Council)

The Slough Council election 2007 was to elect a third of the Council for a four year term (14 members). It was the 122nd Slough General local election. The seats were last contested in 2004.

Elected 2008 (third of Council)

The Slough Council election 2008 was to elect a third of the Council for a four year term (14 members) and to fill a casual vacancy (1 member). It was the 123rd Slough General local election. The seats were last contested in 2004 (apart from the casual vacancy last contested in 2007).

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Members of Slough Borough Council as at 15 May 2008

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