Your councillor

Find your councillor and learn about expenses, allowances, making a complaint and how you can become a councillor

Overview

Your Essex County councillor can help you with county-wide issues like:

  • libraries
  • roads and highways
  • transport
  • waste disposal
  • social care for adults and children
  • education and schools

You can search for your county councillor using your postcode or list all electoral divisions.

When you search for your councillor you will be able to see their:

  • contact details
  • political history
  • allowances and expenses
  • declared gifts
  • register of interests
  • memberships to committees and outside bodies

We ask councillors to use this councillors' privacy notice (PDF, 50KB) when handling people's data.

If we can’t help

Other local services may be provided by your city, district or borough councillor

For local issues, like:

  • planning
  • housing
  • rubbish collection
  • leisure centres

You can contact your city, district or borough councillor.

For national issues, like:

  • the NHS
  • UK tax
  • immigration issues
  • energy
  • defence
  • pensions

You can contact your Member of Parliament.