Higher Blackley

Higher Blackley is an electoral district or ward in the north of the City of Manchester, England. The population of this ward at the 2011 census was 11,688.[1]

Higher Blackley, Manchester
Electoral ward
Higher Blackley electoral ward within Manchester City Council
Coat of arms
Motto(s):  By wisdom and effort
Coordinates: 53.52°N 2.20°W / 53.52; -2.20
Country	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	North West England
County	Greater Manchester
Metropolitan borough	Manchester
Created	May 1973
Named for	Higher Blackley, Manchester
Government   UK Parliament constituency: Blackley and Broughton
• Type	Unicameral
• Body	Manchester City Council
• Leader of the council	Bev Craig (Labour)
• Councillor	Paula Sadler (Labour)
• Councillor	Shelley Lanchbury (Labour)
• Councillor	Olusegun Adelaja Ogunbambo (Labour)
Population
• Total	11,688
Area and population statistics from the 2011 Census[1]

Heaton Park, one of Europe's largest parks, is in this ward.[2]

A new "education village" has been constructed in Higher Blackley, including a "learning resource centre" containing a library and IT facilities with specialist facilities including Science, Humanities and English. The project was occupied in stages, with Our Lady's RC High School and North Ridge SEN occupying the building by January 2009, followed by Meade Hill ESBD in July 2009.[3]

In 2014, a report from Open Society Foundations described the Higher Blackley ward as " a strong and often supportive community with a sense of identity and belonging based on solid social bonds and connections ... a community that had significant pockets of deprivation alongside areas of relative affluence, a majority white working-class community which has undergone social change including increased migration into the area, and a history of far-right political activity".[2]