Henleaze is one of the city's more affluent areas. The largely residential suburb is served by a bustling line of shops along Henleaze Road, where you will find businesses including newsagents, charity shops, hairdressers, a florist and cafes.

Further up the road on Northumbria Drive is the local library and a Waitrose.

There is also the much-loved 71-year-old independent cinema The Orpheus, which has recently come under new ownership and is being redecorated and brightened up.

The ward has good schools, with Henleaze Infant and Junior Schools, Westbury Park Primary School and Claremont School, for children with physical and learning difficulties.

But many local families have had problems getting their children into Henleaze Infants for several years because of oversubscription at the school.

One idea floated recently is to create two primary schools side by side in Henleaze to solve the problem.

The idea of turning both Henleaze Infant and Henleaze Junior schools into separate all-through primaries is under consideration by council chiefs.

There are also several independent schools – The Red Maids' School and The Red Maids' Junior School, St Ursula's High School and Convent of Mercy, and a residential school for children with learning difficulties, St Christopher's.

Henleaze Road is the main route through the area, a continuation of Cranbrook Road leading to Southmead Road, and it experiences high levels of traffic, leading some residents to call for a 20mph speed limit.

The church halls at St Peter's, on The Drive, and Trinity-Henleaze United Reformed Church on Waterford Road are well-used by community groups. In the Golden Hill area of the ward, there is a Tesco superstore on Lime Trees Road, and the Golden Hill Sports Ground which, for many years, has been the home of the YMCA Cricket and Football Club.

It is now permanently secured for the use of local people after a campaign to raise the funds to buy it.

It is a virtually all-white district, with only five per cent of the population coming from ethnic backgrounds.

The number of jobs available in the ward is 3,000 – a little less than half the city average.

Crime is at a level of less than half the citywide rate and in a council survey only nine per cent of people asked thought anti-social behaviour was a problem.

The population of Henleaze is very content, with the survey showing that 97 per cent of people said they were happy, and 90 per cent were satisfied with life.

Furthermore, 82 per cent said they felt they belonged to the neighbourhood, and 96 per cent trusted people locally.

Political forecast: Henleaze has been a Lib Dem stronghold for the last 10 years and looks as though it will stay that way. At the last election the Lib Dem candidate got more than 50 per cent of the vote.