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Philip
Abraham 
is a Town Cllr for Alderton ward and served as Town Mayor for 2017-18.
He is married with two daughters. Born in India, he has lived in
Loughton since 2000. He believes that LRA is doing a great job
protecting our town, its green surroundings and improving quality of
life in Loughton, but that we must create new jobs for young people -
there's more potential to become a vibrant enterprise area, without
losing our green spaces. Philip is involved in promoting business
between UK and India. He is the vice-chair and co-founder of British
South India Council of Commerce.
Ian
Allgood is a member of the
Executive Committee.
was
a Town Cllr for Forest ward for 13 years until retirement in 2021 and
was Town Mayor in 2013-14. She was a governor at Roding Valley High
School for many years; is an active member of Loughton Methodist
Church, and she has always been involved with the Girl Guides locally.
Jill has lived in Loughton for over 50 years, brought up a son and
daughter in the town and has 3 adult grandsons here. Hobbies
include various crafts, genealogy, gardening and music (listening not
playing). Her whole family love the forest and the green spaces. She is
currently Secretary of the LRA so a member of the Liaison
Committee.
is a District Cllr for Forest ward.
He has lived in the area most of his life. For the past 15 years he has
taught maths and economics, latterly as a supply teacher. He’s married
with
two young daughters and his interests are history, education, industry,
business evolution, environment and he’s keen on DIY.
is a Town Cllr for Broadway ward. Originally from Cheshire, he worked
at St Bartholomew’s in the City whilst living in the East End. After 5
years at at the University of Rome I settled, with my family, in
Loughton in 2004, where I greatly appreciate the open, green spaces and
the delightful forest.Michael
Benbow
is a member of the LRA Executive Committee. He has lived in Loughton
since 1992. For 30 years he was a Chartered Industrial
Designer
of engineered durable consumer products, mostly high volume.
He has been in
business since 1990 and works locally now, and was a Governor at
Staples
Road Junior School 1999-2007 and Roding Valley High School 2006
-2011. He married Christine in 1981 and their daughter Annette
born
in 1994 was a 2012 Olympics London Ambassador. He has been LRA's Election
Agent
since 2004 and has led our election activities since 2009. He
says 'All residents enjoy living in this great town and
working
together as the non-political LRA is our best way to protect and
improve what we value about our town'. His recreation includes cycling,
hill
and mountain walking, being outside and town improvement.
Eva
Blasco is
Loughton Life editor and a member
of the LRA Executive
Committee. She grew up in Woodford Green and, after 13 years in
Buckhurst Hill,
moved to Loughton. Eva works at the Ministry of Justice
and enjoys walking in
the forest, gardening and amateur astronomy and believes that the
abundance and variety of
things
that Loughton has to offer makes it the perfect place to live.
Rose
Brookes is
a Town & District Cllr for Roding
ward, and filled these roles for Alderton ward until 2012. She has
taught in
independent and state schools, and also in China. She now works at the
National
Portrait Gallery.
Laura Blake 
is Membership Secretary and is a member of the Executive Committee.
Tessa
Cochrane is
a member of the LRA Excutive Commitee and previously a Town
Cllr for Forest ward and
District Cllr for Fairmead (2010-14). She has lived in Loughton for
over fifty
years, grew up in Fairmead ward and attending Hereward School. She has
had
several jobs after bringing up her family, including teaching assistant
and
clerk to the governors at Staples Road Schools. She has a particular
interest
in special needs in education, as her son has learning difficulties.
She loves
animals, and does quite a bit of volunteer work in the Cancer Research
shop and
helping with pony riding for the disabled on the Roding meadows.
Barbara
Cohen
is a Town Cllr for St Mary's ward and has lived in Loughton
for 20 years. Although
understanding the need for more housing, she is keen to keep as many of
our green spaces as possible, and loves the traditional feel of
Loughton. For her, safety for the public is paramount and she appreciates
how
upsetting parking issues can be and that potholes need to be
reported for attention. She appreciates our beautiful trees,
flowers
and greenery that makes Loughton such a pretty place to live
in. She is friendly and approachable and willing to help people whenever she
can.
Susan
Creevy is LRA's Minutes Secretary and represents LRA on the Epping Forest
Consultative Committee. She is married with three grown children and
has lived in Loughton for over 50 years. Susan is keen to
preserve and improve the character of the town and protect our open
spaces. She particularly enjoys walking in the forest, local
history, community events, theatre and concerts.
Mark
Dalton
is
a member of the Excutive Commitee and previously
a Town Cllr for Roding ward. His
family moved to Loughton in 1976.
He is married with two sons. He runs the distribution of LRA’s
newsletter Loughton
Life.
After redundancy in 2008 from electrical wholesaling,
he now works as
a self-employed general handyman. He is a member of the Wine
Society and a founder member of the Clore Tikva School Foundation. He
is
also a “Friend of the Classic Malts” and a “Guardian of the Glenlivet”.
He is now the Community Handy person for Voluntary Action
Epping
Forest,
available to do small repair jobs for the over-60’s in privately-owned
properties, as well as fitting keysafes and other security products.
Carol
Davies is
a Town Cllr
for Fairmead ward and
was town Mayor for
2016-17.
She joined LRA after she led a campaign to save
Young
Learner’s Nursery when Epping Forest College decide to build on it.
Trevor
Downing
has been a Town Cllr for Forest ward since 2012, and has been a member
of the Planning & Licencing Committee most of that time. He
has enjoyed living in Smarts Lane for 28 years, the Forest and the
environment of Loughton. Born in Yarmouth, he has studied and worked in
Central America, Edinburgh, Cambridge and Leeds before settling in
Loughton. He is a keen cyclist, and enjoys the London and local arts,
theatre and music scenes. For 12 years, he was director of a global
maritime information company, and is now a maritime consultant.
He
has campaigned (successfully) for residents parking in Forest ward, and
is now looking into the through-traffic problem, in particular
over-sized lorries in the narrow roads of the area.
Steve
Eaton is
a member of the Executive Committee, our website
manager, and produces the Loughton News email for members. He has
worked as a project
manager for Stagecoach and Post Office
headquarters in London, and in the financial services
industry. He is enthusiastic about Loughton’s lifestyle, history,
community
spirit and proximity to the forest.
is a Town Cllr for Fairmead Ward. is Membership Secretary and is a member of the Executive Committee.
is a member of the Executive Committee involved with organising the
second hand books and the rota for LRA's stall in the Farmers
Market on Loughton High Road. As a food scientist she worked for two
years in St Vincent under the Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) scheme
before joining a Flavour House in Walthamstow. She has lived
in Walthamstow, Wanstead and Woodford before moving to Loughton
with
her family in 1994.
is a Town Cllr for
Broadway Ward.Bob
Jennings Bob
Jennings is a District Cllr for St. John's ward. He has over 30
years' experience of working in both central and local government and
was a Director of Thames Chase, former Principal Consultant with
the Improvement and Development Agency for Local Government, Advisor to
the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Head of Service with the
London Borough of Enfield, where he managed six front-line services and
achieved Beacon Council status. First elected in 2014, he has served on
many of the Council's committees and is currently the Vice-Chairman of
the Overview and Scrutiny Committee, which scrutinizes the Council's
policies, decisions and performance.
Judy
Jennings
is
a District and Town Cllr for St Mary's ward. She
is also member of the of the Local Government Association's
Children and Young People's Board. Judy has lived in the same house in
York Hill for nearly 30 years
and knows and loves the area well. She would like to see a diverse High
Street
that is full of character making Loughton a vibrant and exciting place
to visit
and shop. She has taken a particular interest in helping with planning
issues
and parking, and in helping adults and children with social and
educational
needs. She is especially interested in children’s education and
welfare, in protecting and conserving the environment, and in
preserving our local
amenities and green spaces. She believes the LRA embodies all that is
best about providing
local government for our community in Loughton.
Jayna Jogia
is a District Cllr for Forest ward. She went to Woodford County
High School and grew up in Gants Hill where she lived for 20 years
before moving to Loughton. Jayna worked in Mergers &
Acquisitions
at a Big 4 Financial Services firm in London. Jayna is also a Director
on the Executive Board for Redbridge Sports Centre Trust and in her
spare time she enjoys amateur photography, trekking, Shaolin Martial
Arts and travelling. She is passionate about the history of Loughton
and its community spirit and hopes to bring a youthful perspective to
the LRA.
Howard
Kauffman is
a District Cllr for St Mary’s ward. He
was born in Hackney. Since
2005 he has lived with his wife and 3 sons in Church Lane. He has
worked in the
commercial property industry since 1976 and has experience of planning
and
finance. His career has involved many regeneration projects and he’s
very
interested in conservation, ecology, local & national history.
Will Kauffman
is a Town Cllr for Fairmead Ward.
Lance
Leonard is
a member of the Executive
Committee and was District Cllr for Alderton ward
(2010-2014). He has
lived in the ward since 1981. His varied working life has been in
newspaper,
television and advertising businesses. In his free time, he enjoys
gardening.
Neil MacKinnon is a Town Cllr for Roding Ward.
Louise
Mead is
District Cllr for Fairmead
ward. She grew up locally and did A levels at Epping Forest College;
she also
studied counselling and management there. She lives in Loughton, and is
a
social worker and has also supported people with learning disabilities.
Miriam
Murphy is
LRA’s Honorary Treasurer and a member
of the Executive Committee. She lived in Loughton for forty years and
trained
and qualified as an accountant working for a firm of chartered
accountants, for
BUPA and BT plc. the latter managing international consortia financing
for
satellites and subsea cables for fifteen years. She left
BT for a
career
break, got married, and acquired an MBA whilst volunteering for a
catholic
charity in London. Besides being a mother to one son, she acts as
treasurer to
the Epping Forest HF (walking) Group and has done charity fundraising
in the
past. Hobbies used to include running, photography and stamp collecting
but are
now limited to local walks and gardening.
is
a Town Cllr for Forest ward. She’s
a professional home economist
and food Stylist. She has lived in Loughton most of her life and has a
grown-up
daughter who lives here too. Her job has taken her all over the world
working
in film and TV, not always to glamorous locations. Stella has served on the local NSPCC committee for over 25 years
- the branch
has raised considerable sums of money each year through fund raising
such as
the Annual Summer Lunch with guest speakers, Tennis and Bridge.
is a District Cllr for Alderton ward and is a husband and a father of
three young sons. He currently
works as a Senior City Inspector at Westminster Council and had been an
employee there for the last 10 years. As a highly respected member of
staff, he has been at the centre of some high profile cases at
Westminster and his work has led to thousands in recovered revenue for
the City Council. Michael Owen
is a Town Cllr for St John's ward and is married with 2 young
step children who attend Staples Road Primary
School, and a new born son. He grew up in Surrey and upon graduation in
2002 started a career in finance, moving to Central London where he
spent the next 13 years.
Michael is currently the Head of
Foreign Exchange sales for the UK and Ireland at a bank in the city and
moved to Loughton permanently in 2015. In his spare time he enjoys
numerous sports including Golf, Cycling and playing Football for a
local team. Michael loves the open spaces that Loughton has to offer
and can often be seen walking the family dog in Epping Forest. He
says “When I first moved to Loughton I was taken aback by the beautiful
open spaces and thriving local community. I wanted to help protect and
build this community and found that the non-political LRA was the best
way I could get involved and help us to stand up for what we all love
about this town”.
Juliet
Pollard
was
Membership
Secretary and is a member of the Executive Committee. She is a retired
librarian
with 36 years’ experience of local government. Her interests include
libraries
in the 21st century and the quality of our environment in Loughton.
Caroline
Pond
is a District and Town Cllr for St John's ward, and was
Town Mayor for 2011-12. She was Chairman of the District Council in
2007-08. She has worked as a librarian with three local authorities.
She is an active member of Loughton Methodist Church, and volunteers
for Loughton Voluntary Care.
Chris
Pond is
the County
Cllr for Loughton (Central), a District Cllr for Broadway ward and a
Town Cllr
for St John's ward. He was chairman of the Town Council in 1997–98 and
Town Mayor in
2004-06 and 2008-09.
He
devised
the LTC blue plaque scheme. He is chairman of the Loughton Historical
Society,
former vice-chairman of the Hills Amenity Society and former chairman
of the
Lopping Hall Trustees.
is a Town Cllr for Broadway ward. He has lived
in Loughton for 28 years, and married with two children who attended
both Hereward Primary and Debden Park Schools. He enjoys walking
their dog over Jessel Green, Willingale playing fields and throughout
Epping Forest. He would like to preserve and improve our local
green spaces and also help The Broadway shopping area, and to improve
facilities for both our elderly and young residents. Having both his
parents and in-laws also living in Loughton, both himself and his
wife have some insight on what needs addressing such as pavements,
dropped kerbs and community centres for help and advice. is
a Town Cllr for Forest ward.
is a District Cllr
for Alderton ward. He was born in Debden; his parents
having moved to Loughton from the East End of London at the end of the
war.
Loughton is very much a part of his life and that of his families.
Chris has
worked in the Construction Industry since leaving school (Lucton Boys)
and He
now manages City and Guilds Electrical Installations NVQ Assessment and
Lectures at a London College. He’s married to Debra, and
has two
sons that both work in London. Chris has been a Union Shop Steward,
Branch
Secretary and a Health & Safety Representative working for
employee’s
rights. His favourite hobby is motorcycling. Mick
Stubbings
is
a Town Cllr for Alderton ward. He
has lived all his life in
Loughton, and for many years in Alderton Ward. Now retired, he worked
for
London Transport, first buses then trains, on environmental and health
&
safety issues. He and his wife enjoy walking, painting, playing bowls,
playing
golf, playing chess and Historical Society evenings.
is a Town Cllr for Alderton ward. is
a member of the Executive Committee and is Chairman of the LRA Plans
Group. He is a chartered town planner and has over 40 years planning
experience in both the public and private sector, handling some of the
most controversial developments in the UK. He has regularly
participated in Government Planning Policy Review Boards and
contributes regularly to planning trade journals. John also advises the
National Organisation of Residents' Associations (NORA). is a member of the Executive Committee and
makes representations on behalf of the LRAPG on all licensing and street
trading applications. Judith is a qualified librarian and has lived in Loughton
since 1997. She is also a Girl Guiding District Commissioner for the
Walthamstow Area and has been a Brownie leader for over 30 years.
is a Town Cllr for St
Mary's ward.David
Wixley is
a District Cllr for Fairmead ward and a
Town Cllr for Roding ward. He has lived in Loughton since two years old
and attended local schools. His varied working life includes over
30 years in the water industry where he developed an interest in staff
welfare issues, served as a trade union representative and sat on his
company's staff council. Interested in football, he has played for
several local clubs and managed one of Loughton Football Club's youth
teams for nine years. Other interests include membership of the
Loughton & District Historical Society and Epping Forest Heritage
Trust. He also enjoys walking and travelling and visiting museums
and art galleries.A Town Cllr since 2004, he served as Town Mayor for
2010/11 and was previously a school governor at White Bridge Junior
School.
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