Higher Blackley

Higher Blackley is an electoral district or ward in the north of the City of Manchester, England. The population of this ward at the 2011 census was 11,688.[1]

Higher Blackley, Manchester
Electoral ward
Higher Blackley electoral ward within Manchester City Council
Coat of arms
Motto(s): 
By wisdom and effort
Coordinates: 53.52°N 2.20°W / 53.52; -2.20
CountryUnited Kingdom
Constituent countryEngland
RegionNorth West England
CountyGreater Manchester
Metropolitan boroughManchester
CreatedMay 1973
Named forHigher Blackley, Manchester
Government
  UK Parliament constituency: Blackley and Broughton
 • TypeUnicameral
 • BodyManchester City Council
 • Leader of the councilRichard Leese (Labour)
 • CouncillorPaula Sadler (Labour)
 • CouncillorShelley Lanchbury (Labour)
 • CouncillorJohn Farrell (Labour)
Population
 • Total11,688
Area and population statistics from the 2011 Census[1]

Heaton Park, one of Europe's largest parks, is in this ward.[2]

A new education village has been constructed in Higher Blackley, including a state of the art learning resource centre containing a library and IT facilities with specialist facilities including Science, Humanities and English. The project was occupied in stages, with Our Lady's RC High School and North Ridge SEN occupying the building by January 2009, followed by Meade Hill ESBD in July 2009.[3]

In 2014 a report from Open Society Foundations described the Higher Blackley ward as " a strong and often supportive community with a sense of identity and belonging based on solid social bonds and connections ... a community that had significant pockets of deprivation alongside areas of relative affluence, a majority white working-class community which has undergone social change including increased migration into the area, and a history of far-right political activity".[2]

Governance

Higher Blackley is in the parliamentary constituency of Blackley and Broughton. Currently all three councillors: Paula Sadler,[4] Shelley Lanchbury[5] and John Farrell[6] are members of the Labour Party.

ElectionCouncillorCouncillorCouncillor
2004 Anna Trotman (Lab) Harold Lyons (Lab) Ken Barnes (Lab)
2006 Anna Trotman (Lab) Harold Lyons (Lab) Ken Barnes (Lab)
2007 Anna Trotman (Lab) Harold Lyons (Lab) Ken Barnes (Lab)
2008 Anna Trotman (Lab) Harold Lyons (Lab) Ken Barnes (Lab)
2010 Anna Trotman (Lab) Harold Lyons (Lab) Ken Barnes (Lab)
2011 Anna Trotman (Lab) Harold Lyons (Lab) Ken Barnes (Lab)
2012 Anna Trotman (Lab) Harold Lyons (Lab) Shelley Lanchbury (Lab)
2014 Anna Trotman (Lab) Harold Lyons (Lab) Shelley Lanchbury (Lab)
2015 Anna Trotman (Lab) John Farrell (Lab) Shelley Lanchbury (Lab)
By-election
18 February 2016[7]		 Paula Sadler (Lab) John Farrell (Lab) Shelley Lanchbury (Lab)
May 2016 Paula Sadler (Lab) John Farrell (Lab) Shelley Lanchbury (Lab)
2018 Paula Sadler (Lab) Shelley Lanchbury (Lab) John Farrell (Lab)
2019 Paula Sadler (Lab) Shelley Lanchbury (Lab) John Farrell (Lab)

  indicates seat up for re-election.   indicates seat won in by-election.

References
  1. "City of Manchester Ward 2011". Retrieved 5 January 2016.
  2. Hussain, Nazia (2014). "Europe's White Working Class Communities: Manchester" (PDF). Open Society Foundations. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  3. "Higher Blackley Education Village". Manchester City Council. Archived from the original on 2012-03-22.
  4. "Paula Sadler". manchester.gov.uk. Manchester City Council. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  5. "Shelley Lanchbury". manchester.gov.uk. Manchester City Council. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  6. "John Farrell". manchester.gov.uk. Manchester City Council. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  7. Fitzgerald, Todd (19 February 2016). "Labour's Paula Sadler wins Higher Blackley by-election". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 24 June 2019.


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