Alex Grant

Alex Grant has been a Labour councillor in the Blackheath and Westcombe Park area since 1998. He was first elected as a councillor for Vanbrugh Ward and was for a several years the youngest Labour councillor in Greenwich. Following boundary changes, he was elected as a councillor for the new Blackheath Westcombe ward in 2002 and was re-elected in 2006 and 2010.

Alex has a particular interest in improving local housing, in ensuring the regeneration of Greenwich benefits all residents – and in protecting the local environment.

Brought up in Westcombe Park, Alex attended Invicta Primary School, where he is now a governor. He has helped lead campaigns for better council housing, the restoration of the Gibb Memorial on the Heath, improvements to the Royal Standard area, and better railway services.

He is a trustee of the John Roan Foundation and is a former governor of John Roan School. Alex is vice-chair of the Blackheath Joint Working Party, which monitors the Heath, and is on the committee of the Greenwich Housing Society, which provides housing to older people in Blackheath. He is also on the committee of Stream Arts, a community arts project based in East Greenwich, and is a member of the committee of the Friends of Westcombe Woodlands, a group that promotes the conservation of, and community involvement in, the hidden woodland between Maze Hill and Vanbrugh Hill.

Alex chaired the council’s Planning Board between 2006 and 2010, having previously served as Chair of the council’s Environment, Development and Regeneration Scrutiny Panel, and then as the council’s Cabinet Member for the Environment and Public Services.

Alex lives with his partner Liz (who works as a designer and a teacher in the borough and is a former governor at Halstow School), and their daughter Alice, born in 2006.

Contact details

Alex is always happy to hear from residents of Blackheath Westcombe ward about any local issue. He can be emailed at alex.grant@greenwich.gov.uk, and can be called at home on 020 8855 7292.

He can also be written to at this address:

Cllr Alex Grant

Royal Borough of Greenwich

Town Hall
Wellington Street
Woolwich
London SE18 6PW

Alex holds two surgeries each month, at which any local residents are welcome to come and talk to him in confidence about a council-related issue. No appointments are necessary. The dates and venues are:

7pm to 8pm on the 1st Friday of every month at Mycenae House Community Centre, Mycenae Road, Blackheath SE3 7SE

3.30pm to 4.30pm on the 3rd Saturday of every month at St James’s Church Hall, Kidbrooke Park Road, Blackheath SE3 0DU