Havering

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The outer London borough of Havering was formed out of the Municipal Borough of Romford and Hornchurch Urban District, which had been transferred to Greater London from Essex by the London Government Act of 1963. The most easterly of London’s boroughs, Havering is bordered to the west with the London Borough of Redbridge and the "London Borough of Barking and Dagenham"http://www.londonspovertyprofile.org.uk/indicators/boroughs/barking-and-dagenham/, to the north with Essex and the east with Thurrock. The River Thames forms Havering’s southern border with the London Borough of Bexley.

The first suburban developments of Upminster, Emerson Park and Gidea Park (also known as Romford Garden Suburb) were built in the late Victorian and Edwardian period and were spurred on by the building of the railway lines through Havering from Liverpool Street and Fenchurch Street in the late 19th century. In the 1930s the District Line was electrified and extended to Upminster with new stations at Elm Park and Upminster Bridge. The concurrent establishment of the Ford Motor assembly plant at Dagenham led to a new wave of mostly working class developments along the route of the new Underground line. In addition to this, to the north of the borough, the large housing estates of Harold Hill and Collier Row were constructed to deal with the chronic housing shortages and early slum clearance programmes in central London.

Today, Havering is the third largest borough in London in terms of area and is mainly characterised by suburban development, with almost half of the area dedicated to open green space, particularly to the east of the borough where strict Green Belt restrictions have inhibited the extension of existing developments. On the other hand, its principal town, Romford, is a major metropolitan retail and night time entertainment centre. The southern part of Havering adjacent to the Thames is within the London Riverside section of the Thames Gateway redevelopment area and as such, will be the site of radical change.

Havering has the distinction of being London’s oldest population, with the average age of residents exceeding the national average. It is also the borough with the lowest increase in birth rates and the least amount of population “churn” in the city. Following net population loss of 7.4% from 1982 to 2002, Havering's population is currently around 230,000 and is projected to increase by 4.3% over the next 25 years. This should be seen in the context of a London-wide projected increase of 12.6%. It is one of the most ethnically homogenous places in London, with more than 95% of its residents recorded as White in the last census (2001).

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