The Alberni Quartet is a British string quartet , whose members have included:
65-678: The quartet was founded in 1962 by four students of the Royal Academy of Music (Dennis Simons, Howard Davis, John White, and Gregory Baron). It was initially named the Simons Quartet, after its first violinist, and later renamed Alberni (the name of Dennis Simons' birthplace in Canada). From 1968 Davis became the 1st violinist, with Peter Pople, Roger Best, and David Smith. They were based in Harlow , Essex where they became established in
130-399: A finance lease . A leasing agreement which is not a finance lease is known as an operating lease . In housing, when a tenant rents an apartment but only pays for their room and the common space is a lease-by-room arrangement. A rental agreement may provide for the renter or lessee to become the owner of the asset at the end of the rental period, usually at the renter's option on payment of
195-456: A landlord (or landlady). The real estate rented may be all or part of almost any real estate, such as an apartment , house , building , business office(s) or suite, land, farm, or merely an inside or outside space to park a vehicle, or store things all under Real estate law . The tenancy agreement for real estate is often called a lease , and usually involves specific property rights in real property , as opposed to chattels . In India,
260-572: A court hearing in July 2020 Harlow Council withdrew the injunction. Harlow is served by two railway stations : Harlow Town and Harlow Mill ; both are served by trains between London Liverpool Street and Cambridge . Harlow Town is also a stop on the Stansted Express , providing frequent services between London and Stansted Airport. All trains serving both stations are operated by Greater Anglia . There are also frequent bus services from
325-424: A focal point for the town's extensive bus network and serves as a regional hub for the local area. The current site was constructed between 2001 and 2003, containing 15 stands and a small visitor information centre. In July 2022, Harlow Council unveiled plans to completely rebuild the bus station at a cost of £15m, along with the construction of a brand new integrated transport and cycle hub. Planning permission for
390-474: A home. Net income received, or losses suffered, by an investor from renting of properties is subject to idiosyncratic risk due to the numerous things that can happen to real property and variable behavior of tenants. There is typically an implied, explicit, or written rental agreement or contract involved to specify the terms of the rental, which are regulated and managed under contract law . Examples include letting out real estate (real property) for
455-497: A landmark in the town built in 1958, was demolished and replaced by Harlow Civic Centre and The Water Gardens shopping area in the 2000s. Since becoming a new town, Harlow has undergone several stages of expansion, the first of which was the "mini expansion" that was created by the building of the Sumners and Katherines estates in the mid-to-late seventies to the west of the existing town. Since then Harlow has further expanded with
520-458: A lease are decided by the landlord and agreed upon by the renting tenant. Various types of rent are referenced in Roman law : rent ( canon ) under the long leasehold tenure of Emphyteusis ; rent ( reditus ) of a farm; ground-rent ( solarium ); rent of state lands ( vectigal ); and the annual rent ( prensio ) payable for the jus superficiarum or right to the perpetual enjoyment of anything built on
585-460: A number of years. Following the schools closure, the site was demolished and redeveloped into a £23 million state of the art Academy which Passmores School and Technology College relocated to in September 2011 opening as Passmores Academy. In the 1980s, a further two secondary schools were closed, Latton Bush (now a commercial centre and recreational centre) and Netteswell (now forms part of
650-465: A percentage of homes for other needy families who cannot afford market rents . There is some dispute as to where the place name Harlow derives from. One theory is that it derives from the Anglo-Saxon words 'here' and 'hlaw', meaning "army hill", probably to be identified with Mulberry Hill, which was used as the moot or meeting place for the district. The other theory is that it derives from
715-475: A size of 71.6-hectares (just under 1 km ), is one of the largest urban parks in the country. The multi-functional park has been used for recreation and enjoyment for over 50 years. This park is in the centre Netteswell ward and is between the town centre and the railway station, both of which are within walking distance of the park, which is a natural thoroughfare from the station to the town centre. There are only 12 parks with significant post-war element on
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#1732801575897780-578: A small number of routes. There is also a National Express coach service between Stansted Airport and Oxford via Luton and Milton Keynes . Essex County Council was involved in development to Harlow's First Avenue, which was intended to reduce congestion and create better transport connections between the Newhall housing developments. The scheme was implemented in two phases, each phase focusing on developing First Avenue on either side of Howard Way. Phase two had an estimated cost of £4.4 million and
845-475: A variety of subjects relevant to local employers' needs. Renting Renting , also known as hiring or letting , is an agreement where a payment is made for the use of a good , service or property owned by another over a fixed period of time. To maintain such an agreement, a rental agreement (or lease ) is signed to establish the roles and expectations of both the tenant and landlord . There are many different types of leases. The type and terms of
910-615: A £20bn pledge by the government. Following Labour's victory at the 2024 United Kingdom general election , these plans have currently been placed under review. Harlow contains seven state-funded secondary schools: St. Nicholas School is a private school in the town while Harlow College provides sixth form and further education . St Mark's West Essex Catholic School and BMAT STEM Academy also provide sixth form education. Brays Grove Community School and Specialist Arts College closed down in June 2008 due to decreasing pupil numbers over
975-399: Is a fee per book. However the term lending is more common. Rental of personal property or real property for periods often longer than a year, which is governed by the signing of a lease , is known as leasing. Leasing is usually used for high-value capital equipment, both in business and by consumers. A lease in which the renter benefits from an increase in value of the asset is known as
1040-520: Is a historic village founded by the early medieval age and most of its high street buildings are early Victorian and residential, mostly protected by one of the Conservation Areas in the district. In Old Harlow is a field named Harlowbury , a de-settled monastic area which has the remains of a chapel, a scheduled ancient monument . The M11 motorway passes through to the east of the town. Harlow has its own commercial and leisure economy. It
1105-589: Is also an outer part of the London commuter belt and employment centre of the M11 corridor which includes Cambridge and London Stansted Airport to the north. At the time of the 2011 Census, Harlow's population was recorded at 81,944 and its district had the third-highest proportion of social housing in England, 26.9%, a legacy of the 1947 commitment to re-house blitzed London families after World War II and provide
1170-590: Is designated as Green Wedge. The Green Wedges are protected from inappropriate development, through the Local Plan. The town is entirely surrounded by Green Belt land, a land designation which originated in London to prevent the city sprawling, and 21% of the district is allocated as Green Belt. The National Planning Policy Framework states that one of the purposes of Green Belt land is to protect unrestricted sprawl from large built-up areas. Harlow Town Park , at
1235-401: Is especially effective for goods used in public places, but even when used at home it may help due to social control. Persons and businesses that regularly rent goods from a particular company generally have an account with that company, which reduces the administrative procedure ( transaction costs ) on each occasion. Signing out books from a library could be considered renting when there
1300-414: Is long term versus short term rentals. Some non-real properties commonly available for rent or lease are: In various degrees, renting can involve buying services for various amounts of time, such as staying in a hotel , using a computer in an Internet cafe , or riding in a taxicab (some forms of English use the term "hiring" for this activity). As seen from the examples, some rented goods are used on
1365-704: Is much reduced. The site now is host to electronics, education and housing companies. One of Europe's leading online golf stores, Onlinegolf, is based in Harlow. Unemployment is frequently around 10%, higher than the national average in the UK. Harlow also has a large number of people in social housing, almost 30% of dwellings being housing association and local authority owned, and many more privately rented. There are two tiers of local government covering Harlow, at district and county level: Harlow Council and Essex County Council . The district council has been controlled by
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#17328015758971430-561: Is now a Grade II listed building. Gibberd's tromp-l'oeil terrace in Orchard Croft and Dawbarn's maisonette blocks at Pennymead are also notable, as is Michael Neylan's pioneering development at Bishopsfield. The first neighbourhood, Mark Hall, is a conservation area. From 1894 to 1955 the Harlow parish formed part of the Epping Rural District of Essex. From 1955 to 1974, Harlow was an urban district . On 1 April 1974
1495-600: Is now known as Old Harlow , with many of its buildings still standing. This includes for instance the Grade II listed St Mary's Church in Churchgate Street. Its former Chapel is in a ruinous state in a field which was once the Harlowbury Abbey part of Old Harlow, is Grade I listed and is a scheduled ancient monument . Kingsmoor House on Paringdon Road is a Grade II* listed building and dates from
1560-486: Is only 10 miles from this major transport hub and therefore provides several hundred airport employees. The airport operator withdrew a planning application for a second runway after the General Election of 2010 , when all major political parties opposed it. Further plans to expand the airport to boost capacity were proposed in 2020, but were rejected by Uttlesford District Council . Harlow bus station provides
1625-641: The Conservative Party since 2021. It is based at Harlow Civic Centre at the Water Gardens in the town centre. The Member of Parliament (MP) for Harlow since the 2024 general election is Labour Chris Vince . He defeated Conservative candidate Hannah Ellis with a majority of 2,504 (5.8%). In 2015 Harlow was the first town in Britain to take out a district wide injunction against unauthorised encampments by Travellers. However following
1690-473: The M11 motorway , which runs from London to Cambridge . Junction 7 provides links to the southern areas of town, such as Church Langley and Potter Street. Junction 7a, located close to Old Harlow, began construction in 2020 and opened in 2022. The M11 motorway was planned originally to run to the west of Harlow, not to the east as it does today. Having planned for one of the two big industrial estates to be built to
1755-594: The Norman Domesday Book reads: Herlaua: St Edmunds Abbey before and after 1066; Geoffrey from Count Eustace; Thorgils from Eudo the Steward; Richard from Ranulf, brother of Ilger. Mill, 7 beehives, 8 cobs, 43 cattle, 3 foals. The mill is now a 300-year-old listed building and restaurant. The original village, mentioned in the Domesday Book , developed as a typical rural community around what
1820-484: The 18th century. It was built as a gentleman's residence and owned by local families including the Risden , Houblon and Todhunter families. It was later used as a private school and council offices before falling derelict. It has since been restored and converted into residential apartments. Harlow was one of several towns to be built around a pre existing village,Harlow was designated a new town on 25 March 1947. It
1885-762: The 1960s as the town's "quartet in residence", and by the mid-1970s had become world-renowned. Their debut in the Carnegie Hall was well received in the New York Times, and they received positive reviews of their recordings of Schumann 's piano quintet , Schubert 's string quintet and Brahms ' string sextets numbers one and two . As well as performing a wide range of the classical string quartet repertoire from Haydn and Mozart to Bartók and Benjamin Britten , they performed new works written for them including Richard Stoker 's first string quartet at
1950-598: The 2000s, a landscape listed by English Heritage . Despite this development, the main shopping area of the town has been stagnating for some time, not helped by the closure of two of the Harvey Centre's anchor tenants - these being BHS and M&S. In 2004, Harlow businessman Mo Ghadami won his High Court case to block a multimillion-pound extension of the town's Harvey Centre. The Iranian-born entrepreneur, who presented his case in person, persuaded Mr Justice Richards to quash Harlow DC's grant of planning permission for
2015-415: The 2018 Two Moors Festival . Harlow Harlow is a town and local government district located in the west of Essex , England. Founded as a new town , it is situated on the border with Hertfordshire , and occupies a large area of land on the south bank of the upper Stort Valley , which has been made navigable through other towns and features a canal section near its watermill . Old Harlow
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2080-728: The Buxton Festival in February 1962 and again at the SPNM , 4 St James's Square, London, in March 1963, Alan Rawsthorne 's third string quartet written for the 1965 Harlow Music Festival, and Nicholas Maw 's first string quartet. Benjamin Britten coached them in his own first and second string quartets (they have recorded all three of his works in the genre), and entrusted the first British performances of Dmitri Shostakovich 's ninth and tenth quartets (whose scores he had acquired from
2145-553: The Church Langley estate completed in 2005, and its newest neighbourhood Newhall has completed the first stage of its development, with the second stage underway in 2013. The Harlow Gateway Scheme, also completed, first involved the relocation of the Harlow Football Stadium and the building of a new hotel, apartments and a restaurant adjacent to Harlow Town railway station . Phase 2 of this scheme involved
2210-471: The English Heritage 'Register of Parks'. With these Harlow is seen as one of the first examples of a civic scheme to marry the modern science of town and country planning. Harlow was originally expected to provide a majority of employment opportunities in manufacturing, with two major developments of The Pinnacles and Templefields providing the biggest employers in the region; as with the rest of
2275-551: The Harlow College Campus) is a major further educational centre, covering GCSEs , A-Levels , and many vocational subjects including Hair and Beauty Therapy, Construction, Mechanics, ICT, and a new centre for engineering recently opened. The college is currently under major regeneration and is due to open a new university centre in partnership with Anglia Ruskin University , covering mostly Foundation degrees in
2340-609: The Neolithic to the Bronze Age with a smattering of Mesolithic. This indicates organised industry existed from 5000 BC to 2000 BC. The deposits are so large and dispersed that any major archaeological work in the area will have to take this into consideration before any ground work is started. Harlow was in Roman times the site of a small town (around Harlow Mill railway station ) with a substantial stone built temple. The entry in
2405-399: The charge may be calculated by the rental charge + timesheets of operators or drivers supplied by the rental company to operate the equipment. This is particularly relevant for crane rental companies. Sometimes the risk that the good is kept is reduced by it being a special model or having signs on it that cannot easily be removed, making it obvious that it is owned by the rental company; this
2470-684: The composer) to them. The Alberni were the first Western quartet to visit China (1987). They were the resident quartet at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama from 1981 to 1988. In 1993, at the Presteigne Festival , the quartet gave the first complete performance of Adrian Williams' Third String Quartet. The Alberni Quartet are now based in South-West England, and have been Quartet-in-Residence at Cedars Hall , Wells, and Artists-in-Residence at
2535-500: The construction of 530 eco-homes on the former sports centre site and the building of the Harlow Leizurezone adjacent to the town's college in the early 2010s. Other major developments under consideration include both a northern and southern bypass of the town, and significant expansion to the north, following the completed expansion to the east. The Harlow North plans, currently awaiting permission, involve an extension of
2600-516: The country, this manufacturing base has declined and Harlow has had to adjust. The original manufacturing took the form of a biscuit factory, on the Pinnacles. Owned and run as a co-op, it provided employment to the town for over 50 years, before closing in 2002. It has since been demolished and the site now has small industrial units. At its peak, the factory employed over 500 people. Raytheon and GlaxoSmithKline both have large premises within
2665-412: The development. In his judgment he backed Mr Ghadami's claim of 'apparent bias or predetermination' in the decision, as a result of the continued participation of Michael Garnett, the chairman of the planning committee, in the planning process after he had attempted in telephone calls to persuade Mr Ghadami to consent to the scheme. In 2011, the government announced the creation of an enterprise zone in
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2730-555: The intentions of the development. Harlow is served by the NHS Princess Alexandra Hospital , situated on the edge of The High, which is the main Town Centre area of Harlow. This hospital has a 24-hour Accident & Emergency and Urgent Care Centre. Plans for the hospital to be rebuilt were first put in place in 2019. In May 2023, it was announced that the facility would be rebuilt by 2030 as part of
2795-508: The internet first to find what they need; rising to 88% for those aged 25–34. The Great Recession may have contributed to the rapid growth of online rental marketplaces, such as erento, since consumers are more likely to consider renting instead of buying in times of financial hardship. Environmental concerns, fast depreciation of goods, and a more transient workforce also mean that consumers are increasingly searching for rentals online. A 2010 US survey found 27% of renters plan to never buy
2860-450: The large numbers of surface-bound, worked flint. Substantial amounts of worked flint suggest an organised working of flint in the area. Large amounts of debitage litter the area and tools found include axe heads, hammers, blades, dowels and other boring tools and multipurpose flints such as scrapers. An organised field walk in the late 1990s by Bartlett (unpublished) indicates that most of the area, some 80 hectares, produced worked flint from
2925-462: The local authority cannot refuse planning permission . A major feature of Harlow New Town is its green spaces; over one third of the district is parkland or fields containing public footpaths. One of the original design features of Gibberd's masterplan is the Green Wedges in the town, designed to provide open space for wildlife and recreation and to separate neighbourhoods. 23% of the district
2990-578: The orbital M25 motorway . Running through the town is the A414 , a major road between Hemel Hempstead and Maldon ; it links the town with the A10 to the west, which runs between London and King's Lynn . Another major road running from Harlow is the A1184, which leads to the nearby town of Bishop's Stortford via Sawbridgeworth . Bishop's Stortford is the closest large town to Stansted Airport , though Harlow
3055-414: The outset and was designed to respect the existing landscape. Sylvia Crowe , the landscape architect, worked on Harlow New Town between 1948 and 1958. A number of landscape wedges - which later became known as Green Wedges - were designed to cut through the town and separate the neighbourhoods of the town. The development incorporated the market town of Harlow, now a neighbourhood known as Old Harlow , and
3120-489: The parish and urban district was abolished and it became an unparished area . The town centre, and many of its neighbourhood shopping facilities have undergone major redevelopment, along with many of the town's original buildings. Subsequently, many of the original town buildings, including most of its health centres, the Staple Tye shopping centre and many industrial units have been rebuilt. Gibberd's original town hall,
3185-517: The parishes concerned. The opposition is coordinated by a local group based in neighbouring East Hertfordshire. An attempt to have Harlow North designated an "Eco Town" was rejected by the Minister for Housing, Caroline Flint MP, in April 2008. The south of the town centre also underwent major regeneration, with the new Civic Centre being built and the town's famous Water Gardens being redeveloped in
3250-765: The project was granted in January 2023, with construction beginning in May 2024. Arriva Herts & Essex operate a large number of local routes within the town. key destinations outside of Harlow include Bishop's Stortford , Stansted Airport and Chelmsford . Arriva also operate the Greenline 724 route, providing a service between Harlow and Heathrow Airport via Hertford and Watford . Central Connect also operate several local services within Harlow, as well as connections to other nearby towns, such as Epping , Ongar , Cheshunt and Waltham Abbey . First Essex operate
3315-418: The purpose of housing tenure (where the tenant rents a residence to live in), parking space for a vehicle(s), storage space, whole or portions of properties for business, agricultural, institutional, or government use, or other reasons. When renting real estate, the person(s) or party who lives in or occupies the real estate is often called a tenant , paying rent to the owner of the property, often called
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#17328015758973380-475: The rental income on property is taxed under the head "income from house property". A deduction of 30% is allowed from total rent which is charged to tax. The time use of a chattel or other so called "personal property" is covered under general contract law , but the term lease also nowadays extends to long term rental contracts of more expensive non-Real properties such as automobiles, boats, planes, office equipment and so forth. The distinction in that case
3445-460: The spot, but usually they are taken along; to help guarantee that they are brought back, one or more of the following applies: If the customer has a credit account with the rental company, they may rent over several months (or years) and will receive a recurring or continuation invoice each rental period until they return the equipment. In this case deposits are rarely required. In certain types of rental (sometimes known as operated or wet rental)
3510-511: The surface of land. There are many possible reasons for renting instead of buying, for example: Short-term rental of all sorts of products (excluding real estate and holiday apartments) already represents an estimated €108 billion ($ 160 billion) annual market in Europe and is expected to grow further as the internet makes it easier to find specific items available for rent. According to a poll by YouGov , 76% of people looking to rent would go to
3575-457: The town across the floodplains on the town's northern border, into neighbouring Hertfordshire . The plan was supported by former MP Bill Rammell , all three political groups on Harlow Council, and the East of England Regional Assembly . It is opposed by Hertfordshire County Council, East Herts Council, Mark Prisk , MP for Hertford and Stortford in whose constituency the development would be, and all
3640-484: The town and a new sustainable transport corridor between the town centre and Harlow Town station. The majority of these works are underway as of mid 2024, with completion of the programme expected by March 2026. A government policy to allow developers to convert office space to residential has led to a proliferation of new 'rabbit hutch'-sized flats, which are then let to London-borough waiting-list families. These are erected under permitted development rights which mean
3705-542: The town centre to Epping tube station , which is on London Underground 's Central line . In 2021, Harlow District Council proposed extending the Central line from its eastern terminus at Epping to Harlow. It argued this would reduce travel times to Epping and London, and help with efforts add 19,000 new homes to the town and expand the population to 130,000. However, no funding has been allocated for this proposed extension. Harlow can be accessed from junctions 7 and 7a of
3770-446: The town, Our Lady of Fatima , which is a Grade II* listed building . Harlow has one of the most extensive cycle track networks in the country, connecting all areas of the town to the town centre and industrial areas. The cycle network is composed mostly of the original old town roads. The town's authorities built Britain's first pedestrian precinct, and first modern-style residential tower block , The Lawn, constructed in 1951; it
3835-487: The town. Harlow Enterprise Zone consists of two separate sites under development, at Templefields and London Road, with the London Road site divided into north and south business parks. In 2022, Harlow Council was awarded £23.7 million from the government's Towns Fund to be used for several large investments in the town. These include the development of a new bus station and transport hub, regeneration of Broad Walk in
3900-410: The town. In July 2017 Public Health England had bought the vacant site from GSK (GlaxoSmithKline) hoping to move altogether 2,745 jobs there, of which about 500 are from Porton Down . Nortel had a large site on the eastern edge of the town, acquired when STC was bought in 1991, and it was here that Charles K. Kao developed optical fibre data transmission. Nortel still has a presence, but it
3965-574: The villages of Great Parndon , Latton , Tye Green, Potter Street, Churchgate Street, Little Parndon, and Netteswell. Each of the town's neighbourhoods is self-supporting with its own shopping precincts, community facilities and pubs . Gibberd invited many of the country's leading post-war architects to design buildings in the town, including Philip Powell and Hidalgo Moya , Leonard Manasseh , Michael Neylan, E C P Monson, William Crabtree, Maxwell Fry , Jane Drew , Graham Dawbarn, H. T. Cadbury-Brown and Gerard Goalen . Goalen designed his first church in
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#17328015758974030-450: The west of the town for easy motorway access, Sir Fredrick Gibberd was appalled when the motorway was eventually built to the east of the town instead, describing it as "just about the most monstrous thing to ever happen to me as a planner" during a 1982 interview. The M11 motorway places the town within a short distance of Stansted Airport , the A120 to Braintree via Great Dunmow , and
4095-491: The words 'here' and 'hearg', meaning "temple hill/mound", probably to be identified with an Iron Age burial mound, later a Roman temple site on River Way. The earliest deposits are of a Mesolithic (circa 10,000 BC) hunting camp excavated by Davey in Northbrooks in the 1970s (Unpublished) closely followed by the large and unexcavated deposits of Neolithic flint beside Gilden Way. These deposits are mostly known because of
4160-522: Was due to be completed in early 2010, phase one is already complete and is listed as having had £3.6 million of funding from the Community Infrastructure Fund (CIF). The scheme includes construction of a shared use cycleway and development to the bus service along First Avenue and into the Newhall development site where 'high quality bus' services between Harlow town centre and Harlow Town railway station are listed as part of
4225-515: Was one of several new towns built under the New Towns Act of 1946, passed after World War II to ease overcrowding in London and the surrounding areas due to the devastation caused by the bombing during the Blitz. Other post-war new towns included Basildon , Stevenage and Hemel Hempstead . The master plan for Harlow was drawn up in 1947 by Sir Frederick Gibberd . The town was planned from
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