Nick Baker
Chair and Wiltshire Councillor for Laverstock & Bishopdown Farm
And councillor for Laverstock Parish Council.
I live in Laverstock and am passionate about ensuring that local people have a voice in decisions which affect them and enabling local groups to make a difference in their community. I have been a member of Laverstock and Ford Parish Council since 2019 and chaired the council from 2020-2025. Since May 2025 I have represented Laverstock and Bishopdown Farm on Wiltshire Council and remain an active member of the parish council.
I really enjoy the opportunities being a councillor gives me to give a voice to individuals as users of council services and to our community on issues from pot holes to planning and everything in between. I am able to draw on two careers, first as a teacher and school leader and now as Finance Director for a charity and I try and use this experience to inform my work as a councillor. I therefore take every opportunity I can to visit the four schools in my division and sit as a member of the Finance Select and Audit and Governance Committees of the council. I am also Vice Chair of the Southern Planning Committee and a member of the Strategic Planning committee.
Another issue that is close to my heart is the need to tackle climate change and the bio-diversity crisis that threaten to undermine the future of our planet and leave our children and grandchildren facing a far more challenging and less rich and beautiful world than the one we knew. Through my work on the Parish Council I have campaigned to get developers to go beyond the legal minimum and build houses in our community which help people reduce their carbon emissions. Until recently I was a trustee of a national conservation charity and have been involved in working with local churches to help them take action on environmental issues.
If you are passionate about seeing change in your community then I would encourage you to get involved in the work of the local Liberal Democrats, we’d love to get to know you.
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