Ian Rowley

Councillor for Marylebone Ward

Ian Rowley has lived in Marylebone for 28 years with his wife. He has been a Councillor since 2007 and has a PhD in financial economics from the London Business School. In the Conservative administration he chaired the council’s Audit and Performance Committee and sat on scrutiny committees and various operational boards. He also chaired the Conservative group’s backbench group. He currently sits on the Audit & Performance Committee and the Budget Scrutiny Task Group.

Ian’s professional background is in investment management. Ian is involved in supporting the arts, having chaired the charity and education committee of the Worshipful Company of Painter Stainers, where he was recently Upper Warden.

He can often be seen being walked by Becky, his Italian Greyhound. During COVID he coordinated thousands of phone calls to local people.

Contact Ian by email or via the constituency office on 020 7730 8181.

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Seymour Leisure Centre and security gates on Shouldham Street

Following the two very well attended public meeting in late January and early February the project team are preparing for the next phase of engagement with user groups and key stakeholders. Commencing in April, Amenity groups, existing users of the centre and interested groups will be invited to wo

Inappropriate parking of Dockless Bikes

Many local people have drawn attention to the anti-social parking of dockless bikes.  To be clear, no operators are permitted to operate in Westminster under any forms of agreement and abandoned dockless vehicles are subject to removal or seizure. Fining systems are in place to discourage use

Shouldham Street Car Park

Yet another unsuitable sublet has occupied the Shouldham Street Car Park.  Our priority is to make sure the building is safe, and we are liaising with our Environmental Health Team to arrange inspection to access the risk of fire.  In addition, because car parks of residential build

Climate Action Day

We know that air quality is top of the agenda for people across Marylebone. To showcase what the Council is doing to help residents improve air quality in Westminster, your Councillors attended a recent Climate Action Day. There were 18 stalls with advice from 'How to better insulate your

Moxon Street Car Park Development

Cllr Karen Scarborough has been meeting weekly since the commencement of work on the site, with Head of St Vincent School, WCC Highways Inspector and Keir together with the project manager paid for by the developer on behalf of St Vincent's, to co ordinate impacts on the school and local people

Development at 19-35 Baker Street

Cllr Karen Scarborough met on site with the demolition team  Erith and the WCC Highways Inspector.  Since the beginning of their works at 19-35 Baker Street, they have hosted multiple site visits for local students from the University of Westminster and Architectural Association.  T

Marylebone Station, Installation of Breathe Easy Monitors and Air Filtration

While the first passenger journeys took place as the new Hybriflex train left Marylebone station last week, we have also secured funding to pay for Breathe Easy Monitors at six new locations affected by poor air quality, including schools. The readings will be analysed by Imperial College.

Westminster’s Street Heroes

Your Marylebone councillors continue their contact and listening campaign with local people. Where waste is reported on the street we are pressing for intervention and issuing of fixed penalty notices for repeat offenders. Interventions are a significant part of our effort.