Karen Scarborough

Councillor for Marylebone Ward

Karen has lived in Westminster for over 26 years and has a business and legal background. Karen was elected in 2014 and continues to work closely with residents and businesses to keep Marylebone a special place in Westminster. 

Since being elected in 2014, she has striven to maintain clean safe streets in Marylebone, improve greening, air quality, planting more trees, together with dealing with Licensing and Planning issues. The various past roles and responsibilities held by her, within Westminster City Council has facilitated and broadened her abilities to have made and continue to make improvements in Marylebone. She is on the Board of the Young Westminster Foundation, the Harley Street Business Improvement District and Governor of St Vincent’s School in Marylebone and St Mary of the Angel's in Westbourne Park. 

Karen says" I am passionate about continuing to keep Marylebone a great place to live and work and am completely committed to listening to residents and supporting them to resolve their issues and concerns".

Contact Karen by email, via Westminster City Council on 020 7641 5377 or via the constituency office on 020 7730 8181.

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Dockless bikes across Westminster

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Clean up your act! Westminster threatens to ban idling coaches

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Reporting suspicious behaviour to the police

We are often asked by residents about the best way to report suspicious behaviour to the Police. We have consulted them and been told that if a crime is in the process of taking place then you should ring ‘999’.

Electric vehicles and car sharing

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Marking Dementia Week

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Clean Air for All

Air quality is just as much of a priority for you as it is for us - this is why it is at the top of our agenda for Westminster. Idling vehicles are some of the worst offenders when it comes to dirtying the air we breathe, so Westminster Conservatives are cracking down on them hard. Our #DontBeIdle

The Westminster Mile

For second year running, the Westminster Mile was largest one-mile run in the world.

Electric vehicles and car sharing

The Council has launched two new flexible vehicle sharing schemes with ZipCar and DriveNow which will help reduce the number of cars on our roads. A flexible vehicle sharing scheme allows users to hire vehicles and to leave them in different on-street locations within Westminster and other part

The Marylebone Low Emission Neighbourhood

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