The website of Councillor William Leathem

Welcome to my personal councillor website. I am the Democratic Unionist Party elected member for the electoral ward of Lisburn Town North, which includes Ballymacash, Ballymacoss, White Mountain, Pond Park, Magheralave, Harmony Hill, Seymour Hill, Lambeg and Hilden which are all part of Lisburn City Council.

I was elected to Lisburn City Council in May 2005. I am a member of the following committees

• Planning - former Chairman 2006-2008
• Environmental  Sevices
• Leisure Services

I represent the Council on the following outside committees

• Lagan Valley Regional Park
• South Eastern Building Control Committee
• South Eastern Education and Libary Board
• Board member of Lisburn YMCA
• I am also a member of the Board of Governors on Killowen Primary School, Ballymacash Primary and Laurelhill Community College.
• I am a  Board member of the Ulster- Scots Agency since December 2007 

I work as a researcher for Councillor Jonathan Craig MLA. I have lived in the Magheragall area all my life and am an active member of the Loyal Orders - Past Master of Lowquarter Volunteers LOL 187, former District Secretary Magheragall District LOL N0.9, Former County Grand Secretary of County Antrim Grand Orange Lodge, Past Master of Rushyhill Crimson Arrow RBP 1003 and Past Presdient Drumbo Apprentice Boys.

I am a former chairman and founder member of Brookmount Cultural & Education Society and founder member and current chairman of Magheragall Pipe Band where I play the pipes.

I am married to Kathleen and enjoy socialising, going to cinema and dining out.

I will be using this site to keep you  informed about my work, and to provide you with information about developments at Lisburn City Council.

This website has been provided to help me in my work as a councillor – to help me communicate with all residents of Lisburn City Council, regardless of their political persuasion. It has been provided to help improve the quality of communication between councillors and the people that they represent. As this website has been established with funding from the e-Government Fund programme, it is not appropriate for me to use it for the purposes of political campaigning.

However, there is a ‘My Politics’ link in the toolbar on the left-hand side of this website, and I may use that to link to political sites that I think are of interest.

I hope that you will feel free to use the ‘Contact Me’ button in the toolbar on the left of this site to let me know your views on any important upcoming business that the council is involved in. I’d also be interested to hear how you’d like me to use this website – and other internet tools to improve the way that important local issues are communicated to you.

With best wishes

Councillor William Leathem .

* Councillors will represent you regardless of political persuasion. This site has been provided subject to an Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) that this Councillor has agreed to. If you would like to read the AUP, click here. If you think that this site is not being used according to the AUP, you can tell the Project Team by clicking here.