County Councillor for Chells Division
Borough Councillor for Manor Ward
Email: robin.parker@hertfordshire.gov.uk OR robin.parker@stevenage.gov.uk
Phone: 01438 724 746
Robin was born and raised in Bradford, Yorkshire until the age of 8 when he moved with his family to Stevenage in 1961, living in Chells. He has lived in Chells for nearly all his adult life and still lives there, near The Glebe.
He attended Camps Hill School and Nobel School, after which he obtained a physics honours degree at the University of Birmingham and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education at the University of Cambridge.
Robin was a teacher for 40 years. In the first 35 years, he worked full time as a teacher, mostly of physics and science, in a variety of schools, mainly in Hertfordshire, but also in Essex and North London from 1974 to 2009. This was mostly in state mixed comprehensives but also in state single-sex, private mixed and private single-sex schools. After that, for 5 years, he worked as a tutor.
Robin Parker first stood and was elected to Stevenage Borough Council (SBC) in May 1982 for Mobbsbury Ward. When this was abolished in 1999, he moved to the new Manor Ward, which covers Mobbsbury and all of Chells Manor. He is the second longest-serving Borough Councillor on SBC, Leader of the Liberal Democrat Group and, at the council elections in May 2019, he obtained a record-breaking 76% share of the vote. Currently, he serves on the Overview and Scrutiny Committee and the Appointments Committee, amongst many other SBC commitments.
In May 2005, Robin first stood and was elected to Hertfordshire County Council (HCC) for Chells Division. Currently, he serves on the Pensions Committee and the associated Pensions Working Party and the Standards Committee. He is the longest-serving Stevenage County Councillor on HCC.
Robin does not have a lot of spare time but has interests including travel, radio broadcasting, space and astronomy.