Your Labour councillors for Hackney Central

Contact the team on hackneycentral@hackney-labour.org.uk
http://hackneycentrallabour.blogspot.com/

Advice surgeries:

Date: 2nd Saturday each month Start: 11.00am End: 12.00pm 
Venue: Wilton Community Hall 
Address: Greenwood Road, London E8 1BE 

Date: 4th Saturday each month Start: 11:00am End: 12:00pm 
Venue: Marcon Estate Community Hall 
Address: Marcon Estate, Amhurst Road (at the junction of Marcon Place), London E8 1LN 

More about the team

Cllr Alan Laing
Alan Laing has worked full-time as Hackney Council’s Cabinet Member for Neighbourhoods since 2006 and has been a Labour Councillor for Hackney Central Ward since 2002.
 
Aged 31, Alan lives in the ward on Graham Road and has lived in Hackney for ten years. He is a member of the Unite trade union.
 
As a Cabinet Member Alan has ensured cleaner streets, from 25% failing to meet the standards set for London, to just 3% now.  He has helped lead the Council’s joint work with the police that has seen crime fall by 35% - the second biggest drop in London, pushed recycling up to 27%, and expanded it to include plastics and tetrapaks.
 
Locally in the ward, Alan is proud of the redesign of Mare Street, which has removed guard-railing, repaved the street and made the whole environment more pleasant for shoppers, residents and visitors.
 
Alan’s top priorities if re-elected are cleaner streets, safer neighbourhoods and working to achieve better value for Council Tax-payers’ money.
 
Cllr Samantha Lloyd
Samantha Lloyd has been a Hackney Labour Councillor since 1999, representing Hackney Central Ward since 2002.
 
Samantha is 45 and lives locally on Frampton Park Road. She has lived in Hackney for 26 years and enjoys using the Lido and London Fields.
 
She is Hackney’s Cabinet Member for Finance and Chair of Audit & Finance on Hackney Homes. In both of these roles she has ensured that sound finances are kept so that the Council and Hackney Homes have the money they need to fund better services.
 
Samantha is a Governor at Mossbourne Academy and a regular attendee at local Tenants and Residents’ Associations. She is Treasurer and a Founder Member of the Women's Local Government Society, a group that campaigns for more women to be elected as local councillors.
 
Her proudest achievement locally is to help Wilton Estate to develop  a thriving Tenants and Residents Association with a youth club and other activities (e.g. coffee mornings, summer BBQs) culminating most recently with an urban orchard planting.
 
Samantha’s key priorities if re-elected are continuing to improve local schools, maintaining the Council’s sound finances, and increasing resident involvement in council decisions.

Cllr Vincent Stops
Vincent Stops has been a Labour Councillor for Hackney Central Ward since 2002.
 
Aged 50, Vincent has lived in Hackney for eight years. He works for a pan-London organisation representing transport users.
 
For two years Vincent was the Council’s lead member for environment during which time Hackney’s planning service achieved record improvement in performance, recycling services were first delivered to every household and customer satisfaction in the borough’s bus services rose from 19th in London to 4th.
 
For four years Vincent has chaired the borough’s Planning Committee, encouraging great design and the highest environmental standards for all the borough’s new buildings.
 
Vincent’s priority for the ward has been improving the local environment in Hackney town centre. This has resulted in cleaner streets, wider footways, better pedestrian crossings, removal of hundreds of yards of ugly guard-railing from Mare Street and. the appointment of a town centre manager.
 
Vincent chaired the former Pembury Estate Committee and now actively supports the Pembury Tenants and Residents Association (PETRA). He is a member of the Campaign for better Transport and has been involved with the local Campaign for Real Ale organising the East London Beer Festival.
 
His priorities are reclaiming streets for people and public life, combating climate change and improving the quality of the built environment.