Paul Swaddle

Councillor for Regent's Park Ward

Paul lives in north Marylebone and runs a software company in central London. He has lived in the St John’s Wood and North Marylebone area since 2015, serving as one of your local councillors since 2018. Paul lead on the St John’s Wood High Street project and wants to ensure that it is a place that works for visitors and retailers at the heart of our community. He is passionate about ensuring that Westminster remains a great place to do business and live.

Paul says “As a councillor, I have worked tirelessly to support local people with a wide range of issues and concerns. I am committed to ensuring that our City remains a great place to live and work, with clean streets where people feel safe.”

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

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Access to Elsworthy Road from Avenue Road maintained

Your local councillors objected last year to proposed road changes planned on our border with LB Camden which would have stopped vehicles accessing Elsworthy Road from Avenue Road with the potential of displacing increased traffic to our side of the boundary in NW8.  ­Our objections and those

Making our schools safer with school streets

We all know the importance of keeping our streets safe, so your local councillors fully support the introduction of ‘School Streets’ outside Barrow Hill School which sees the closing of Bridgeman Street between Greenberry Street and Allisten Road to vehicles during school drop-off and collection. ­

Broadening Horizons – supporting our local primary school

Barrow Hill Junior School is our beacon primary school here in Regent’s Park ward and Paul, Gotz and Robert are supporting their ‘Broadening Horizons’ project by securing funding. 'Broadening Horizons’ sees 1000 new books being put into their classrooms and improvements to their ground floor area w

Potholes on Eamont Street

Your local councillors hold regular street surgeries and on a recent surgery on Eamont Street residents told us about several highway issues including a carriageway pothole.  We contacted Westminster’s highway team who within two days had this repaired.

CCTV cameras provided extra security

Your local councillors have secured funding for CCTV cameras on two of our local estates - Barrow Hill and Wharncliffe Gardens. Recently we have reviewed the signage to ensure residents and visitors know that these cameras are in operation so by providing additional security.  If however anyo

Commemorative bench on Allsop Place

A new commemorative bench has been installed on Park Road where it meets Allsop Place with funding secured from the Council by the Regents Park team.

St John's Wood High Street

As we all know the traditional high street continues to change and the pandemic has accelerated the pace of change.

Zebra Crossing fixed to help pedestrian safety

Pedestrian safety is paramount, so we moved swiftly to have fixed an amber-coloured globe lamp (Belisha beacon) which had gone missing on the busy St John’s Wood High Street and Prince Albert Road zebra crossing.

Tackling dumping & fly tipping

No one likes to see rubbish dumped or fly-tipping so when your local councillors were told of the bins on Wellington Place attracting dumping, we arranged to meet with Westminster Council officers and made several changes including reconfigured and removing some of the bins, improving the signage an

Extra reassurance for local people around Lord’s T20 & The Hundred

T20 cricket and the new Hundred tournament are proving popular with a large crowd in attendance.  To help with crowd control at the close of play and to give reassurance to residents and spectators, your local councillors have ensured Lord’s deploying extra stewards outside of the ground as pa