Councillor John Ward
Title: Leader of the Council
Party: Farnham Residents
Ward: Farnham Shortheath and Boundstone
Other councillors representing this Ward:
More information about this councillor
Surgery details
03/05/2007 to 07/05/2015 Conservative Member for Farnham Shortheath & Boundstone
19/08/2016 By-Election elected as Farnham Residents Member for Farnham Shortheath & Boundstone
Contact information
Home address:
Woodlands
7 Wrecclesham Hill
FARNHAM
GU10 4JN
Phone: 01252 715617
Bus. email: john.ward@waverley.gov.uk
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Responsibilities
Committee appointments
- Area Planning Committee (Western)
- Council
- Council (Acting as Trustee of the Ewart Bequest Trust)
- Council (Acting as Trustee of the Shottermill Recreation Ground Trust)
- Executive (Chairman)
- Executive (Acting as Trustee of the Joseph Ewart Bequest) (Chairman)
- Joint Planning Committee (Substitute)Western Area
- Licensing and Regulatory Committee (Substitute)
- WESTERN Planning 2020/21 (Substitute)
Terms of Office
- 03/05/2007 - 07/05/2015
- 19/08/2016 -
Appointments to outside bodies
- District Councils Network
- South East Employers
- South East Employers Local Democracy and Accountability Network
- South East England Councils
- Surrey Leaders' Group
- Wey and Arun Steering Group
Additional Information
John Ward is a graduate Mining Engineer who has spent most of his working life overseas involved in oil exploration. After working in the North Sea, Africa and the Middle and Far East, he retired as General Manager and then became a qualified Financial Advisor.
Associated with Farnham since 1974 when he married Gillian in St Andrew's Parish Church, he is a strong proponent of maintaining village identity and the Wrecclesham Relief Road. Having been educated in both the Public and Private Sectors, he retains a keen interest in local schools, being a former Governor of St Peter's Wrecclesham. He has observed successful recycling arrangements in other countries and is keen to improve Waverley's performance.
He enjoys golf, underwater photography and is currently learning to sail.
Elections
- Parish/Town Councils with individual wards - Borough & Parish Combined Elections, 02/05/2019
- Waverley Borough Council election, 02/05/2019
- Surrey County Council election, 04/05/2017
- Farnham by-elections, 18/08/2016
- Waverley Borough Council election, 07/05/2015
- Farnham Town Council election, 07/05/2015
- Waverley Borough Council election, 05/05/2011
- Farnham Town Council election, 05/05/2011