Your Labour councillors for Clissold

Contact your Labour councillors on clissold@hackney-labour.org.uk

Advice surgeries for Clissold Labour councillors:

Date: 1st Monday each month Start: 7.00pm 
Venue: Stoke Newington Library 
Address: Stoke Newington Church Street, London N16 0JS 

For an appointment with ward cllrs at Milton Gardens Estate Community Hall, Hawksley Court Estate and Burma Court Estate Community Meeting Room, please call Members' Support on 020 8356 3373. 

Cllrs Alcock, Mitchell and Smith also hold monthly roving surgeries throughout the ward. 

More about the team:

Cllr Linda Smith
Linda Smith was first elected as a Stoke Newington Councillor in 1998 and has been a Labour Councillor for Clissold Ward since 2006.
 
Linda represents the Council on the Abney Park Cemetery Trust, helping to preserve a key local green space and nature reserve. The Park has reached the second stage of the bidding process for a lottery grant to restore the derelict chapel and make the park more visitor friendly.
 
She is on the Council's Planning Committee and has campaigned on many local issues to help make Stoke Newington a better place to live in.
 
Her key achievements include getting new children’s play equipment for Clissold Park when what was installed fell below the quality expected by local parents; and the planned implementation of a 20mph zone around Stoke Newington School, including along the newly refurbished Church Street.
 
Aged 34, she lives locally with her partner in Victorian Grove, and has lived in Stoke Newington since 1998. Their son attends William Patten Nursery School. She also uses Clissold Park, Clissold Leisure Centre, and Stoke Newington Library, and has recently started cycling again after some time out of the saddle. Linda works as a Researcher at the House of Commons.

Her priorities if re-elected are keeping the council tax low and improving the service which residents receive from Hackney Homes.

Cllr Karen Alcock
Karen Alcock has been a Labour Councillor for Clissold Ward since 2002.
 
Aged 36, she is married with a two year old daughter. She lives locally on Prince George Road and has lived in Hackney for ten years. She swims at Clissold Leisure Centre and uses Clissold Park a lot particularly the children’s play area with her daughter. She is a member of the Unite trade union.
 
Since being appointed by Mayor Jules Pipe in 2008, Karen has worked full-time as Hackney’s Deputy Mayor. Previously she was Hackney’s Cabinet member for Customer and Corporate services for over two years.
 
Karen is also Chair of Finance for Betty Layward Primary School and a member of Clissold Park User group as well as supporting the Clissold Swimming Club and attending the Police Community Advisory Panel and many Tenants and Residents Association meetings.
 
She is particularly proud to have argued successfully for a 20 mph zone in response to local schools’ concerns and to have ensured much needed youth provision has been invested in here in Clissold Ward.

Her top priorities if re-elected are affordable housing, better facilities for local young people and continuing to drive up the quality of education in Hackney.
 
Cllr Wendy Mitchell
Wendy is 27 and lives in the ward on Burma Road. She works as a Public Affairs Manager for the London Borough of Newham. Previously she worked for Turning Point, a health and social care voluntary sector organisation which tackles issues like substance misuse, mental health, and learning disability. She is a member of the GMB trade union.
 
She has been active in the Butterfield Green Users' Group and is a member of the Hackney Environment Network. Wendy is a Friend of the Rio cinema and a Member of Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
 
Wendy is a community governor at Horizon School, which is a special educational needs school on Wordsworth Road, and has been pushing for the school to get the chance to plant and garden an area in Butterfield Green.
She has volunteered for two years at a service for people with severe and enduring mental health problems in Hackney, supporting them to be more independent and make their own decisions.
 
If elected, Wendy’s priorities are high quality health and social care services, particularly for the most vulnerable; making Hackney a better place to grow up; and generating employment opportunities for local people.