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Henleaze
Henleaze is a suburb in the north of the city of Bristol in South West England. It is an almost entirely residential interwar development, with Edwardian streets on its southern fringes. Its main neighbours are Westbury on Trym, Horfield, Bishopston and Redland.
The name of Henleaze probably derives from a Robert Henley, who in 1659 bought a property which became known as Henley's House and later as Henleaze Park. The area was a rural part of the parish of Westbury on Trym until 1896, when land between Henleaze Road and Durdham Down was sold for development. Most of the rest of the area was developed in the 1920s, during the British interwar housing boom.
For elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom, Henleaze is in the Bristol North West constituency. As of 2024[update], the MP is Darren Jones of the Labour.
For elections to Bristol City Council, Henleaze is part of the Westbury-on-Trym and Henleaze electoral ward, which as of 2024[update] is represented by three Liberal Democrats. Until 2016, Henleaze and Westbury-on-Trym were two separate electoral wards.
Henleaze ward also included Golden Hill and Westbury Park.
Up until the early 1990s, Henleaze was a solid Conservative area, however The Liberal Democrats established a more solid position up until 2006, when it began to swing back to the Conservatives. In the 2009 elections, when the Liberal Democrats took control of the City Council, Liz Radford a local campaigner achieved an unprecedented swing in the ward for the Conservatives. Henleaze would have fallen to them if the swing had been just 1.5% higher.
Henleaze is one of the most affluent areas of the city. Among the thirty-five wards into which Bristol was divided, it had the fifth lowest proportion of people in routine and semi-routine occupations, according to the 2001 census, and the fifth highest proportion with higher education qualifications.
The ward was merged with neighbouring Westbury-on-Trym ward following a 2015 Local Government Boundary Commission for England review, which found that the electorate size for the two neighbourhoods merited three councillors between them. Initial proposals were to keep Westbury-on-Trym as one single-member ward and Henleaze as two-member ward, while transferring part of the former into the latter, but this was rejected because it would have placed the boundary through the traditional village centre of Westbury-on-Trym.
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Henleaze
Henleaze is a suburb in the north of the city of Bristol in South West England. It is an almost entirely residential interwar development, with Edwardian streets on its southern fringes. Its main neighbours are Westbury on Trym, Horfield, Bishopston and Redland.
The name of Henleaze probably derives from a Robert Henley, who in 1659 bought a property which became known as Henley's House and later as Henleaze Park. The area was a rural part of the parish of Westbury on Trym until 1896, when land between Henleaze Road and Durdham Down was sold for development. Most of the rest of the area was developed in the 1920s, during the British interwar housing boom.
For elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom, Henleaze is in the Bristol North West constituency. As of 2024[update], the MP is Darren Jones of the Labour.
For elections to Bristol City Council, Henleaze is part of the Westbury-on-Trym and Henleaze electoral ward, which as of 2024[update] is represented by three Liberal Democrats. Until 2016, Henleaze and Westbury-on-Trym were two separate electoral wards.
Henleaze ward also included Golden Hill and Westbury Park.
Up until the early 1990s, Henleaze was a solid Conservative area, however The Liberal Democrats established a more solid position up until 2006, when it began to swing back to the Conservatives. In the 2009 elections, when the Liberal Democrats took control of the City Council, Liz Radford a local campaigner achieved an unprecedented swing in the ward for the Conservatives. Henleaze would have fallen to them if the swing had been just 1.5% higher.
Henleaze is one of the most affluent areas of the city. Among the thirty-five wards into which Bristol was divided, it had the fifth lowest proportion of people in routine and semi-routine occupations, according to the 2001 census, and the fifth highest proportion with higher education qualifications.
The ward was merged with neighbouring Westbury-on-Trym ward following a 2015 Local Government Boundary Commission for England review, which found that the electorate size for the two neighbourhoods merited three councillors between them. Initial proposals were to keep Westbury-on-Trym as one single-member ward and Henleaze as two-member ward, while transferring part of the former into the latter, but this was rejected because it would have placed the boundary through the traditional village centre of Westbury-on-Trym.
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