Northeast London: Fanshawe College area · Kilally corridor · Stoney Creek · north of Fanshawe Park Road
Six candidates: first-term incumbent Peter Cuddy faces five challengers. Nominations closed August 21, 2026; the City certified the list on August 24. The race is about growth in the northeast, with the Kilally corridor now split with Ward 4 by the new boundary and what Fanshawe College's enrolment shock means for the neighbourhoods around campus. The ward's boundaries were redrawn for this election: areas north of Fanshawe Park Road join Ward 3, while most of the Huron Heights core moves to Ward 4.
Two candidates carry a prior election record. Peter Cuddy, the incumbent, was elected Ward 3 councillor in 2022 with 1,433 votes (36.17%) of five candidates, per the City's certified results. Leroy Osbourne, the sitting TVDSB trustee for Wards 2-6, was elected in 2022 with 5,142 votes (19.53%), the second of two seats, per the City's certified results.
The rest of the field, in alphabetical order: Ben Durham, Harkirat Kaur, Riya Philip, and Zak Rahim.
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Elected Ward 3 councillor in 2022: 1,433 votes (36.17%) of five candidates, per the City's certified results.
Identical questions go to every declared candidate. Answers are published verbatim; “no response” is reported plainly.
Identical questions go to every declared candidate. Answers are published verbatim; “no response” is reported plainly.
Identical questions go to every declared candidate. Answers are published verbatim; “no response” is reported plainly.
Elected Thames Valley trustee for Wards 2-6 in 2022: 5,142 votes (19.53%), the second of two seats, per the City's certified results.
Identical questions go to every declared candidate. Answers are published verbatim; “no response” is reported plainly.
Identical questions go to every declared candidate. Answers are published verbatim; “no response” is reported plainly.
Identical questions go to every declared candidate. Answers are published verbatim; “no response” is reported plainly.
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Under the boundaries council approved in December 2024, Fanshawe College's main campus sits in Ward 3, per the City's official boundary data. The college is in a documented enrolment shock: it projected roughly 5,000 fewer international students for 2025-26 under the federal permit cap, suspended future intakes for 40 programs while cutting staffing by about 35%, and is leaving its south London campus. The permit caps are federal and college funding is provincial, so a councillor can't fix Fanshawe's budget. What the city does control is the neighbourhoods around campus: rental licensing under by-law CP-19, property-standards enforcement, and transit service to the campus.
About 5,000 fewer international students projected for 2025-26; future intakes suspended for 40 programs; staffing cut by roughly 35% (about 400 full-time positions). CBC London (program cuts) ↗
Fanshawe's enrolment drop is driven from Ottawa and Queen's Park. What would you actually do with the city's own levers, rental licensing, property standards, transit, for the neighbourhoods around campus?
Ward 3's best-known growth fights sit right on its new edge. The three-tower proposal at 1470-1474 Highbury Avenue North (402 units, rejected by the Planning and Environment Committee in 2025 after staff cited groundwater and setback concerns) is on the Ward 4 side of the 2026 boundary, per the City's official boundary data, and as of August 2, 2026 we could not confirm whether the refusal was appealed. The Kilally Infrastructure Project rebuilding the road from Webster Street to Clarke Road runs through both wards: construction is staged into 2028, and the JW Carson Bridge closure on Clarke Road (July 13 to August 14, 2026) is part of the same growth work. Whoever wins Ward 3 and Ward 4 will inherit this corridor together.
Construction is planned in stages: Webster-Sandford (2026), Sandford-Clarke (2027), surface work and cleanup (2028). City of London (Get Involved) ↗
Which specific sites on the ward's stretch of the Kilally corridor should take high-density growth, and how would you work with the Ward 4 councillor on the shared road work?
Some residents will vote in a different ward than in 2022: the final boundary option moves the Ward 3/Ward 4 line and adds territory north of Fanshawe Park Road to Ward 3. Some current Ward 3 files, including Huron Heights-specific ones, may shift to the new Ward 4 councillor instead. Confirm your new ward on the city's interactive map rather than assuming continuity.
The 2025 population estimate for the then-current Ward 3 was 27,299, the smallest ward population cited in the boundary review's example table.
Which neighbourhoods that are new to Ward 3 will you visit first, and when?
London's Connectivity Plan and the Renew London capital program include sidewalk, cycling, and road work relevant to the ward's growth areas. We couldn't confirm specific Ward 3 line items in this research pass.
Roughly $385 million citywide in 2026; no Ward 3-specific project list confirmed.
Which sidewalk and cycling connections inside the new Ward 3 would you push to fund first?
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