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Three candidates to contest borough council seat

Keith Savage, who passed away in December.

Three candidates are to contest the vacant seat on High Peak Borough Council, with an election to take place on Thursday 7 April. 

The vacant seat had been held by Labour councillor Keith Savage, who sadly died in December. 

The candidates contesting the Cote Heath seat are the Green Party’s Peter Colin Crook, Kev Kirkham for the Conservatives and Alan Geoffrey Smith for Labour. 

High Peak Borough Council has 43 councillors across 28 wards.

Following the last election in 2019, Labour held 22 of the seats and overall control of the council. The Conservatives had 16 seats, Liberal Democrats three, and the Green Party two.  

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