Terri has been a councillor for Crouch Ward since 2002. She is currently Cabinet Member for Communities.

Terri is also a Basildon Council representative on the Basildon Community Transport Service, Basildon Side By Side, the Basildon Youth Strategy Group, the Local Councils' Liaison Group, the Patient and Community Reference Group for the Basildon and Brentwood Clinical Commissioning Group and the South Essex Children's Partnership Board.

Previously, Terri was also a county councillor for the Laindon Park & Fryerns Division from 2009 to 2014.

Terri lives in Noak Bridge with her husband. She is retired and also serves as the Chairman of Noak Bridge Parish Council. 

If you are a resident of Crouch and would like to contact Terri, please email terri.sargent@members.basildon.gov.uk.

You can also follow Terri on Facebook.

She also holds a residents surgery on the first Saturday of the month between 9:30am and 10:30am at Noak Bridge Village Hall, Coppice Lane, and the third Saturday of the month between 9:00am and 10:00am at Steepleview Hall, Willowfield (off Osier Drive).

Terri's ward colleague is Cllr Stuart Allen.