Labour Councillors hold regular drop-in surgeries for residents in Barking Riverside. These take place at on 1st Thursday of every month (excluding January and August) between 5pm – 6pm.
Surgeries for Barking Riverside residents take place at Rivergate Centre, Minter Road, Barking, IG11 0FJ
You can also email your Councillors at cameron.geddes@lbbd.gov.uk or josie.channer@lbbd.gov.uk
In Barking Riverside you’re represented by two Labour Councillors, Cameron Geddes and Josie Channer.
On this page you can keep up-to-date with news from across the ward, along with the work of your local Labour Councillors and Labour community team.
If you need help from your Councillors, click ‘surgery details’ above to find out where you can meet your Councillors or how to contact them.
This September we launched our new website. Our Councillors and Labour community teams are busy uploading their latest news. Please check back soon for the latest updates from across your ward.
Labour Councillors and Labour teams are out regularly knocking on doors to hear from residents.
In the meantime, if you need help from your local councillors, please click the surgery button above. You can either come to one of our drop-in surgeries or email your Councillor directly.
GPs in Barking already look after 20% more patients than the national average – Barking is being underserved by our NHS.
In Barking Riverside, thousands of new homes are being built with no new health services locally, causing pressure on the rest of the borough.
Residents were promised a primary care facility as part of the Barking Riverside development, but these plans have stalled.
You can join local Labour MP Nesil Caliskan’s campaign to tell the developers and the NHS that Barking deserves better – Barking Riverside needs a new GP surgery to end the postcode lottery for healthcare.
You can support the campaign here.