London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
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| London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham | |
 Shown within Greater London |
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| Geography | |
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| Status | London borough |
| Area — Total |
Ranked 322nd 16.40 km2 (6.3 sq mi) |
| ONS code | 00AN |
| Admin HQ | King Street, Hammersmith |
| Demographics | |
| Population — Total (2007 est.) — Density |
Ranked 98th (of 326) 172,500 10,515 /km2 (27,234 /sq mi) |
| Ethnicity White British White Irish Other White White & Black Caribbean White & Black African White & Asian Other Mixed Indian Pakistani Bangladeshi Other Asian Black Caribbean Black African Other Black Chinese Other |
(2005 estimates)[1] 59.8% 3.9% 14.4% 1.1% 0.6% 1.1% 1.0% 1.9% 1.2% 0.8% 1.3% 4.4% 4.4% 0.9% 1.1% 2.0% |
| Politics | |
| Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council | |
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| Leadership | Leader & Cabinet |
| Mayor | Andrew Johnson |
| Executive | Conservative |
| MPs | Greg Hands (Con) Andrew Slaughter (Lab) |
| London Assembly — Member |
West Central Kit Malthouse (Con) |
| Coat of Arms | |
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| Official website | http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/ |
The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham (
pronunciation (help·info)) is a London borough in West London and forms part of Inner London.
It was formed in 1965 by merging the Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith and the Metropolitan Borough of Fulham. It was known as the London Borough of Hammersmith until its name was changed on 1 January 1979 by the borough council.
The 1908 Olympics were hosted in the borough, at White City, and the borough is home to the main facilities of the BBC at BBC Television Centre.
Traversed by the A4 Great West Road and the A40 Westway, many corporations have offices in the borough, and a large development is underway at White City with new transport links and a large shopping mall.
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[edit] Districts
The borough includes the areas:
- Fulham
- Hammersmith
- Barons Court
- Hurlingham
- Old Oak Common
- Parsons Green
- Sands End
- Shepherd's Bush
- Walham Green
- West Kensington
- White City
- Brook Green
[edit] Demographics of Hammersmith and Fulham
According to the 2001 census Hammersmith and Fulham has a population of 165,242. 58% of the borough is White British, 20% white non-British (among which are large Polish and Irish communities), 5% black Caribbean, 5% black African with various other ethnicities (including Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Chinese) making up the remaining 11 percent.
The borough has the second-highest proportion of single adults of any borough in England and Wales (55%), and a higher than average for the London area of young adults aged 20-29 (24%).
Forty-four percent of households are owner–occupiers, and 22% of households were listed as "other" - that is, not single persons living alone or families. These are generally two or more unrelated adults living together, such as students or cohabiting couples.
The borough comprises a patchwork of affluent as well as deprived neighbourhoods. The unemployment rate is only 5%, although of these, 29% were listed as long-term unemployed.
See external links below for more census information from the borough.
[edit] Economy
Virgin Group operates its headquarters at The School House, 50 Brook Green.[2] All Nippon Airways operates an office on the fourth floor of Hythe House at 200 Shepherds Bush Road.[3][4]
[edit] Hammersmith & Fulham Council
Hammersmith & Fulham is administered by 46 councillors. The Conservative Party currently holds a majority of 33 seats, thus forming the Administration. The Council leader is Cllr. Stephen Greenhalgh (Con).
Labour forms the Opposition on the Council with 13 seats and is led by Cllr. Stephen Cowan. The next local elections will take place in 2010.
The borough is divided into 16 electoral wards, all bar two electing three councillors apiece. These are:
- Addison
- Councillors Helen Binmore (Con), Belinda Donovan (Con), Peter Tobias (Con)
- Askew
- Councillors Gill Dickenson (Lab), Lisa Homan (Lab) Rory Vaughan (Lab),
- Avonmore & Brook Green
- Councillors Alexandra Robson (Con), Will Bethell (Con), Robert Iggulden (Con)
- College Park & Old Oak
- Councillors Wesley Harcourt (Lab), Reg McLaughlin (Lab)
- Fulham Broadway
- Councillors Aidan Burley (Con), Victoria Brocklebank-Fowler (Con), Rachel Ford (Con)
- Fulham Reach
- Councillors Gavin Donovan (Con), Paul Bristow (Con), Andrew Johnson (Con)
- Hammersmith Broadway
- Councillors Michael Cartwright (Lab), Stephen Cowan (Lab), Lisa Nandy (Lab)
- Munster
- Councillors Michael Adam (Con), Adronie Alford (Con), Alex Karmel (Con)
- North End
- Councillors Caroline Ffiske (Con), Sarah Gore (Con), Lucy Gugen (Con)
- Palace Riverside
- Councillors Donald Johnson (Con), Melanie Scott Russell (Con)
- Parson's Green & Walham
- Councillors Nicholas Botterill (Con), Frances Stainton (Con), Mark Loveday (Con)
- Ravenscourt Park
- Councillors Lucy Ivimy (Con), Harry Phibbs (Con), Eugenie White (Con)
- Sands End
- Councillors Steve Hamilton (Con), Jane Law (Con), Jeanette Bentley (Con)
- Shepherd's Bush Green
- Councillors Alexander Chalk (Con), Ed Owen (Lab), Mercy Umeh (Lab)
- Town
- Councillors Stephen Greenhalgh (Con), Greg Smith (Con), Antony Lillis (Con)
- Wormholt & White City
- Councillors Colin Aherne (Lab), Jean Campbell (Lab), Dame Sally Powell (Lab)
[edit] Sport in the borough
Considering its size, there are an extraordinary number of sporting successes based in the borough. They include:
[edit] Rugby clubs
Hammersmith & Fulham RFC have been playing in the borough at Hurlingham Park for over 30 years. They boast four senior men’s sides and one Ladies XV. The men’s 1st XV currently compete in London's NW3 League with the remainder of the sides participating in the Middlesex Merit Tables.
[edit] Football clubs
Chelsea Football Club and Fulham Football Club are both based in the borough and play Premiership football. Queens Park Rangers currently play in the country's second level, the Championship, but still can contribute to the borough's claim of having three of the nation's top 44 football teams.
[edit] Footballers
Ex-Nottingham Forest, Newcastle United, West Ham United, Manchester City & England international defender Stuart Pearce was born in Shepherd's Bush.
Much-travelled Wigan Athletic striker Marcus Bent was born in Hammersmith.
Sean Davis plays currently for Portsmouth and was capped for England under-21s, he is one of the only players in history for play for the same club in all 4 divisions of English football for Fulham.
Tony Bedeau of Torquay United and Walsall was born in Hammersmith in 1979.
Queens Park Rangers midfielder Lee Cook was born in Hammersmith in 1982.
Buckingham Town Striker Christopher Robson was born in Hammersmith in 1984.
[edit] Boxers
Joe Calzaghe was born in Hammersmith in 1972.
Frank Bruno was born in Hammersmith in 1961.
[edit] Rowers
Lower Mall was home to a large number of rowing clubs at the end of the 19th Century, of which there are now only a few survivors. The headquarters of the national governing body, the Amateur Rowing Association, is also on Lower Mall, in a building, The Priory, which used to be occupied by rowing clubs. The first half of the Boat Race course is along Hammersmith and Fulham's southern border, on the River Thames.
[edit] Education
Public libraries in the borough include Askew Road Library, Barons Court Library, Fulham Library, Hammersmith Library, Sands End Library, and Shepherds Bush Library.[5]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Data Management and Analysis Group, Greater London Authority, Demography Update October 2007, (2007)
- ^ "Our company information." Virgin Group. Retrieved on 14 January 2009.
- ^ "ANA City Offices/Ticketing Offices Europe." All Nippon Airways. Retrieved on 22 December 2008.
- ^ "Ward Boundaries." London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. Retrieved 22 December 2008.
- ^ "Libraries." London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. Retrieved on 22 December 2008.
[edit] External links
- London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham official website
- Cllr. Stephen Cowan (Lab) - Leader of the Opposition
- Local Conservative Party
- Greg Hands MP (Con) - for Hammersmith and Fulham and the parliamentary candidate for the new Chelsea and Fulham constituency
- Andy Slaughter MP (Lab) - Andy Slaughter is Labour's parliamentary candidate for the new Hammersmith Constituency
- Councillor Paul Bristow (Con) - Councillor for Fulham Reach Ward and Cabinet Member for Residents Services
- Shaun Bailey - (Con) Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Hammersmith
- The Bush Theatre
- Riverside Studios
- The Lyric Hammersmith Theatre
- Local Listings Magazine
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