Karen Scarborough

Councillor for Marylebone Ward

Karen has lived with her family on the border of the Marylebone ward for over 24 years and has a legal and business background.

Since being elected in 2014, she has striven to maintain clean safe streets in Marylebone, improve greening, air quality, planting  more trees, together with dealing with Licensing and Planning issues. The various past roles and responsibilities held by her, within Westminster City Council has facilitated and broadened her abilities to have made and to continue to make improvements in Marylebone. She is on the Board of the Young Westminster Foundation, the Harley Street Business Improvement District and Governor of St Vincent’s School in Marylebone and St Mary of the Angel's in Westbourne Park. 

Karen says" I am passionate about continuing to keep Marylebone a great place to live and work and am completely committed to listening to residents and supporting them to resolve their issues and concerns".

Telephone: 020 7730 8181

Email: [email protected]

Sign up for our regular emails, full of interesting local news for people living in Marylebone. You can opt out at any time and we won't share your email address with anyone else. 

Please complete our 30 second residents' survey, to help us understand what matters to local people in our community. 

News

Greening around Marylebone

Planting of trees around Marylebone is constrained by utilities and cables running under the pavement.

Rubbish Outside Ossington Buildings

Every picture tells a story. We were distressed to see the result of missed recycling collections and insufficient recycling collections. We have had the area deep-cleaned and liaised with Howard de Walden who are responsible for the bin area, as it is on private land, to agree with the

Air Quality and Sustainability

Your Conservative led Council continues to drive air quality improvements around the City and your Councillors have found funding to install further six Breathe Easy sensors.  The data will be collected by Imperial College and Westminster City Council Officers will keep abreast with readings.

Library Newsletter and Cato Street

We can categorically confirm that there have been no decisions to close any library site and we continue to invest in new facilities at the Seymour Leisure Centre and Church Street.  Records in the Archive library go back for many centuries  and carry some priceless information.&nbsp

The Wallace Collection

Approved plans for Manchester Square aim to improve routes for pedestrians and cyclists around the Square.

Garfield House - Detailed Plans

Garfield House extends from 80 Edgware Road to the corner of George Street 110 Edgware Road  and includes Tesco.

Candy Stores on Oxford Street

Your Conservative Council is looking into the rapid emergence of Candy Stores on Oxford Street. The Oxford Street Strategic Action Group, chaired by Cllr Ian Rowley,  has carried out a detailed and thorough investigation into the landlords, head lease owners and intermediaries who are involved

Montagu Square Recycling

Ward recycling centre hotspots continue to be closely watched and we can report there have been have been over 50 waste interventions over the past two weeks.  We continue to monitor the management of all our Recycling Centres including Montagu Square. On Thursday 17th March your Councillors

Shouldham Street Car Park Update

We continue to pursue our priority to make sure the building is safe and can confirm a representative from the fire brigade has now visited alongside the director of the company occupying the parking bay with our WCC Planning Enforcement Officer.  We will continue to liaise with the London Fir

Seymour Leisure Centre and security gates on Shouldham Street

Following the two very well attended public meeting in late January and early February the project team are preparing for the next phase of engagement with user groups and key stakeholders. Commencing in April, Amenity groups, existing users of the centre and interested groups will be invited to wo