Councillor Thomas de Freitas

Chairman of Southport Conservative Association
Councillor for North Meols & Hesketh Bank
WLBC Lead Member for Rural Affairs

Cllr Thomas de Freitas serves as Chairman of Southport Conservative Association.

Before being elected Chairman, he was the Association's Deputy Chairman (Political) for two years.

Thomas was elected as a Borough Councillor for North Meols & Hesketh Bank ward on West Lancashire Borough Council (WLBC) in May 2023, and as a Parish Councillor on North Meols Parish Council. You can join his ward Facebook group here.

In May 2024, Thomas was appointed as WLBC's Lead Member for Rural Affairs. He also serves as the Lancashire Chairman of the Conservative Rural Forum, and in October 2024 was selected as the Conservative candidate for West Lancashire North (covering Banks, Hesketh Bank, Tarleton & Mere Brow) in the May 2025 Lancashire County Council elections. 

Thomas lives in Banks village and works for a national trade association as a communications manager. He can be contacted on [email protected] or [email protected].

News

Cllr Tony Brough Criticises Local Lib Dems

Councillor Tony Brough the Leader of the Sefton Conservative Group and a Councillor for Ainsdale has expressed his great concern over the decision made by the Liberal Democrat Group to resign their seat on the Planning Committee to which they are entitled under the Council’s Constitution. Councillo

No Support for Cycle Lanes

On Tuesday evening, Sefton Council’s Overview & Scruitiny Committee met to consider the results of the cycle lane consultation, which was published earlier this month.

Southport Conservatives Call for Cycle Lane Proposals to be Scrapped

Southport Conservatives are demanding that Sefton Labour listen to the people of Southport and abandon their plans to impose more cycle lanes on the town. Cambridge Ward Councillor, Sinclair d’Albuquerque, and Dukes Ward Councillor, Mike Prendergast, have long opposed the scheme with it being a cen

Southport Conservatives Force Labour to Release Cycle Lane Consultation Results

The Southport Conservative council group have decided to retract a requisition for a full extraordinary meeting of the council to discuss the consultation into the cycle lane proposals for Southport. This comes following the response, on the same day the requisition was received by the council, tha

Our Candidates are officially announced!

The Conservatives have been out in force this week, campaigning in their respective Wards, delivering leaflets across Southport, with the local elections only a few short weeks away. The candidates are as follows; Michael Shaw – Ainsdale Ward Lee Durkin – Birkdale Ward Sinclair D’Albuquerque –

Sefton Labour attempt to Cover Up Strand Disaster!

The Labour Party in Sefton are being heavily criticised following the recent announcement of a special Cabinet meeting that will be held behind close doors on 24 June 2021.   Bootle Strand was purchased by the Labour run Sefton Council in 2017 for the sum of £32 million.

Candidates Question Sefton's Green Transport Policy

Plans to extend cycle lanes across Southport, including into Birkdale, have come in for heavy criticism from Conservative Council candidates, Mike Prendergast and Lee Durkin, standing in Dukes Ward and Birkdale Ward respectively.

New Road Markings in Crossens thanks to Meols Ward Candidate Thomas de Freitas

A stretch of Water Lane in Crossens, which has been the focus of local concern about speed, will have new ‘SLOW’ road markings installed by Sefton Council, following an intervention by local candidate Thomas de Freitas. De Freitas, who is a candidate in the upcoming local elections for Meols ward,

Conservatives Oppose Cycle Lane Expansion

Local Campaigners have been ‘disappointed but unsurprised’ by the announcement this week that
the cycle lane project introduced down Hoghton Street and Queens Road last summer will now be
expanded to include areas of Churchtown, Crossens and Birkdale Village.