Our Local Representatives
Please note that changes have been proposed for our local Westminster City Council ward (Hyde Park), which can be seen in detail on pages 15-17 in this document from the Boundary Commission.
Heather Acton
Heather Acton has lived in Westminster for 30 years and is currently the Cabinet Member for Family Services and Public Health. Before becoming a councillor, she worked as a development economist for UN agencies and various other organisations for 25 years and is a qualified homeopath.
Heather chaired her local amenity society before being elected to represent Hyde Park Ward in 2010. She has held the posts of Cabinet Member for Sustainability and Parking, Deputy Cabinet Member for Children and Young People and has sat on both planning and licensing committees.
Email: hacton@westminster.gov.uk
Ian Adams
Ian Adams has been a resident of Hyde Park ward since 1994 where he lives with his husband Christopher. First elected to Westminster City Council in 2002, Ian is presently Cabinet Member for Public Protection and Licensing, and is also the council’s LGBT+ Champion.
He served as The Lord Mayor of Westminster in 2017-18. He is a Trustee of Age UK Westminster and the London Handel Society, and previously served for ten years as a Governor of City of Westminster College. He holds an MBA awarded with Distinction and is a Leadership Fellow of St George’s House, Windsor, and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. He is employed as a senior executive in the NHS.
Email: iadams@westminster.gov.uk
Antonia Cox
Antonia has lived in the ward with her family for over twenty years and has been a councillor since 2012. She worked in banking in the City and New York before become banking correspondent of the Daily Telegraph and a leader writer there and at the Evening Standard.
She is chairman of the City of Westminster Pension Fund Committee, a shareholder representative on the London Collective Investment Vehicle, a non-executive director of the Student Loans Company and Vice-Chairman of Governors at Marylebone Boys’ School.
Email: acox@westminster.gov.uk
Nickie Aiken
Nickie Aiken is the Member of Parliament for the Cities of London and Westminster, the constituency which includes the HPEA area. Nickie was elected to the seat in 2019 having served as leader of Westminster City Council since 2017 and having been a councillor since 2006.
Among her initiatives as leader of Westminster were a council building programme to provide over 2,000 new affordable and social rented homes, and reforms to the planning system to make it more open, giving residents a bigger, earlier voice in the planning process.
Email: nickie.aiken.mp@parliament.uk
Website: https://www.nickieaiken.org.uk/
Tony Devenish
Tony Devenish is the London Assembly Member for West Central London, which covers the HPEA area. He has represented Westminster, Hammersmith and Fulham, and Kensington and Chelsea, in his Assembly role since May 2016. He has also served as a councillor in Westminster since 2006, where he represents the Knightsbridge and Belgravia ward.
Outside politics, Tony had a long career in infrastructure and property, including as one of the youngest overseas General Managers for Rolls-Royce.
Email: tdevenish@westminster.gov.uk
Website: https://www.tonydevenish.org.uk/