Lancaster City Council:
North Lancashire Green Party has 23 City Councillors representing 11 different City Council wards: Bowerham, Bulk, Castle, Ellel, Halton-with-Aughton and Kellet, John O’Gaunt, Marsh, Scotforth East, Scotforth West, University and Warton. We do regular print newsletters for these wards, and occasional ones for the Lancaster District or for across North Lancashire. See below for details
Wyre Council:
We do not yet have any Councillors. If you’d like to help us change that, please get involved!
Lancashire County Council:
We have one County Councillor representing the county division Lancaster Central. See below for details.
Your Green Councillors are always pleased to hear from you.
Lancaster City Council
Councillors by Ward
For each Councillor listed below there is link to their profile on this website and a link to their profile on the Lancaster City Council website, where you can find more contact information; their current roles and responsibilities; committee appointments; appointments to outside bodies; attendance records; declarations at meetings and register of interests.
Bowerham Ward
Your Local Green Councillors
Hamish Mills
Elected in May 2023.
Deputy Mayor
Sarah Punshon
Elected in May 2023.
Bulk Ward
Your Local Green Councillors
Caroline Jackson
First elected in May 2013.
Caroline is Leader of the Council and holds the Housing portfolio on Cabinet.
Caroline is also the Leader on the Management Team of the Green Group of Councillors.
Jack Lenox
First elected in May 2021.
Sam Riches
Elected in May 2023.
Castle Ward
Your Local Green Councillors
Dave Brookes
First elected in 2011.
Dave is the Cabinet Member with responsibility for Environmental Services.
Paul Stubbins
First elected in May 2019.
Cabinet member with the portfolio for the Climate Emergency from August to November 2024 after which it will revert to Cllr Gina Dowding.
Izzy Metcalfe-Riener
Elected in March 2024.
Ellel Ward (including Glasson & Thurnham)
Your Local Green Councillors
Sally Maddocks
Elected in May 2022.
Sally is a Cabinet member with the portfolio for .Corporate Services, and is Group Manager on the Management team of the Green Group of Councillors.
Paul Tynan
Halton-with-Aughton & Kellet Ward
Your Local Green Councillors
James Sommerville
Elected in May 2023.
Sarah McGowan
Elected in May 2023.
Sarah is on the Management team of the Green Group of Councillors.
John O’Gaunt Ward
Your Local Green Councillors
Suhis Abuhajar
Elected in May 2023.
Grace Russell
Elected in May 2023.
Marsh Ward
Your Local Green Councillors
Gina Dowding
Among the first Greens elected as City Councillors in 1999. Retired as a councillor in May 2007 but stood again in May 2019 and was elected for Marsh ward.
Gina is a Cabinet member with the portfolio for Climate Action and is Deputy Leader on the Management team of the Green Group of Councillors.
Further info on Council website.
Gina is also a County Councillor – see below for details.
Mandy Bannon
First elected in 2019.
Nick Wilkinson
Elected to represent Marsh ward in May 2023, having previously represented Castle ward from 2015 – 2019.
Nick is a Cabinet member with the portfolio for Regeneration & Local Economy (Lancaster).
Scotforth East Ward
Your Local Green Councillor
Andrew Otway
Elected in October 2024.
Scotforth West Ward
Your Local Green Councillors
Abi Mills
First elected in May 2014.
After the 2023 elections she was elected by Councillors to be the Council champion for people with disabilities.
Mayor
Tim Hamilton-Cox
First elected in May 2011.
Tim is a Cabinet Member with the Finance and Property portfolio.
University Ward
Your Local Green Councillors
Tom Fish
Maria Deery
Elected in July 2024.
Warton Ward (including Yealand)
Your Local Green Councillor
Sue Tyldesley
First elected in September 2022.
Sue is a Cabinet Member with the Planning portfolio.
Cabinet Members
- Caroline Jackson – Leader of the Council, Housing and Homelessness Portfolio. This includes private sector and social housing, caravan and traveller sites, refugee and asylum seeker housing, as well as household support and resilience, and tackling homelessness.
- Tim Hamilton-Cox – Finance and Property Portfolio. This includes the strategic control of financial resources, procurement and fair trade, revenues and benefits, and ICT.
- Gina Dowding – Climate Action Portfolio. This includes flood prevention, low carbon energy generation and energy conservation, climate emergency response, retrofitting and electrification, EV charging and active travel (implementation and monitoring).
- Nick Wilkinson – Regeneration and the Local Economy (Lancaster). This includes regeneration, skills and digital innovation, the Canal Quarter, BIDs, high streets, jobs and skills.
- Sue Tyldesley – Planning portfolio
- Sally Maddocks – Corporate Services portfolio
Committees
Please see Committees on the Lancaster City Council website for a list of the committees of Lancaster City Council. From there there are links to information about each committee, including their full membership, and the dates and agendas of upcoming meetings. To see what committees a particular Green Councillor sits on, please use the links above to their Councillor profile page on Lancaster City Council website,
Lancashire County Council
Councillors by District
Lancaster Central
Your District Green Councillor
Gina Dowding
gina.dowding@lancashire.gov.uk
First elected to the County Council in 2013.
The Lancaster Central division represents all of Marsh ward, and parts of Castle, Scotforth West, and Ellel wards.
You can find more contact details, and other information re Cllr Dowding’s role as a Lancashire County Councillor, including committee appointments on the County Council’s website here.