{"id":867173,"date":"2026-04-02T13:28:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/867173\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T13:28:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:28:21","slug":"horsforth-town-council-hall-park-ward-by-election-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/867173\/","title":{"rendered":"Horsforth Town Council: Hall Park ward by-election confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents in Horsforth\u2019s Hall Park ward will be heading to the polls, it has been confirmed by Horsforth Town Council today.<\/p>\n<p>As WLD <a href=\"https:\/\/westleedsdispatch.com\/vacancy-opens-on-horsforth-town-councils-hall-park-ward-as-councillors-resigns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported last month<\/a>, the Hall Park seat became vacant following the resignation of Councillor Becky Heaviside.<\/p>\n<p>At least ten registered voters in the ward needed to submit a written request to trigger a by-election.<\/p>\n<p>The town council has today confirmed the by-election, if contested, will take place on Thursday, 7 May 2026 \u2013 the same day as the Leeds City Council elections. <\/p>\n<p>Nomination papers should be submitted by Thursday, 9 April.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"695\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/horsforth-hall-park-by-election-695x900.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-200674\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Hall Park is one of the wards represented on Horsforth Town Council, which deals with a range of local issues including community facilities, events and neighbourhood matters.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored content<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"638\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2024-10-31-at-18.31.46-638x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-164818\"  \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunnybankmills.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.sunnybankmills.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents in Horsforth\u2019s Hall Park ward will be heading to the polls, it has been confirmed by Horsforth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,209390,212615,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-867173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-horsforth","12":"tag-horsforth-town-council","13":"tag-leeds","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116335352835912798","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}