John has proudly represented Essex’s Chelmer division since 2013, championing causes and handling many hundreds of individual concerns across potholes, pavements, school travel and admissions, highways etc.
As Essex County Council’s Cabinet Member for Health and Adults, John has sought to transform how we care for older people and those with learning/physical disabilities, mental illness etc, while being at the heart of handling the Covid crisis.
Registered blind since 1990, John has had multiple roles in the voluntary and commercial and public sectors as evidenced by the award of the MBE, OBE and CBE for services to community, charity and business respectively.
John is a dad and grandad and lives with his wife Yvonne in Chelmer Village.