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84-418: A North and West London Light Railway . Ealing is twinned with: 51°30′N 0°20′W / 51.500°N 0.333°W / 51.500; -0.333 Metropolitan Green Belt The Metropolitan Green Belt is a statutory green belt around London , England. It comprises parts of Greater London , Berkshire , Buckinghamshire , Essex , Hertfordshire , Kent and Surrey , parts of two of
126-537: A belt of all undeveloped land. As to London it was idealised to extend to land not earmarked for building "7 to 10 miles deep all around the built-up area of Greater London". New provisions for compensation in the Town and Country Planning Act 1947 allowed local authorities to incorporate green belt proposals in their first development plans . The codification of Green Belt policy and its extension to areas other than London came with Sandys' annexed Circular 42/55 urging
168-585: A belt of up to six miles, 9.7 km wide). After passage of the Green Belt Act 1938 , it took 14 years for the elected local authorities responsible for the area around London to define the area on scaled maps with some precision. Following the establishment of the belt around London, feedback being received, and statements and debates in the House of Commons, other authorities nationwide were similarly encouraged in 1955 by Minister Duncan Sandys to designate
210-817: A green belt were put forward from 1890 onward, but the first to garner widespread support was put forward by the London Society (LS) in its Development Plan of Greater London 1919. The LS, alongside the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), first lobbied for a belt (initially of up to two miles wide) to prevent urban sprawl, beyond which new development could occur; this was not realised. The great interwar Britain housing boom, from 8 million homes in 1921 to 11.3 million in 1939, saw most of today's Greater London apart from its very edge developed too densely to be conferred any near-contiguous green belt status. The great increase in private motor transport continued into
252-640: A large British-Polish community that owes its origins to the World War II refugees and Polish armed forces finding both cheap accommodation and work in the Acton area, which then had a high proportion of London's light engineering companies involved with government war contracts. This community has grown considerably including more shops with authentic Polish food since Poland joined the European Union and its migrant workers have been able to come to
294-666: A large amount of local support from the borough, although Griffin Park is situated just outside the borough, in the neighbouring London Borough of Hounslow. The borough is represented in Rugby Union by Ealing Trailfinders , Wasps RFC , Hanwell RFC, Old Priorian, Northolt and West London RFC. The borough has four non-League football clubs Hanwell Town F.C. and Southall F.C. which both play at Reynolds Field in Perivale. The other two clubs are London Tigers F.C. , which plays at
336-613: A paper under its core ethos of economic liberalism challenging the goals of nature and environmental protection groups who advocate greater urban density . The paper highlighted the Metropolitan Green Belt had land to build a million typical closer London fringe (low-to-medium) density homes within ten minutes walk (800m) of existing train stations, specifically circa 20,000 hectares (77 sq mi). It critiqued 10,000 hectares (39 sq mi) of golf course land. The Royal Town Planning Institute commissioned
378-461: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages London Borough of Ealing The London Borough of Ealing ( / ˈ iː l ɪ ŋ / ) is a London borough in London , England. It comprises the districts of Acton , Ealing , Greenford , Hanwell , Northolt , Perivale and Southall . With a population of 367,100 inhabitants, it
420-572: Is the third most populous London borough. Ealing is the third largest London borough in population and eleventh largest in area, covering part of west London and a small part of north-west London. It bridges Inner and Outer London . Its administrative centre is in Ealing Broadway . Ealing London Borough Council is the local authority. Ealing has long been known as the "Queen of the Suburbs" due to its many parks and tree-lined streets;
462-610: The Barbara Speake Stage School (co-ed, ages 4–16), St Augustine's Priory (girls) and Notting Hill and Ealing High School (girls), are also located within the borough. The Japanese School in London is a Japanese international school in Acton . The borough of Ealing is ethnically diverse. In 2011, 49% gave their ethnicity as white, 30% as Asian, 15% as Afro Caribbean and 4.5% as of mixed or multiple ethnicity,
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#1732802590026504-624: The 1950s. Despite new roads and the London Underground , London traffic congestion and pollution was forecast to become highly problematic unless development could be encouraged outside of a contiguous capital city. A solution emerged from study of the localised preservation of the character of the couronne périurbaine (around-town crown) surrounding Paris, and a movement to expand instead satellite towns and other towns in France. In 1947, Jean-François Gravier successfully advocated to
546-503: The 1950s. The Asian population makes up 80% of Southall Broadway ward as of 2011, a contrast compared to the 8% of Southfield ward in the borough's east. The most noticeable Afro-Caribbean populations in the borough are in the areas of Northolt and Acton. Of the residents in the Northolt West End ward (as of 2011), 19.4% of them were of Afro-Caribbean heritage, with a relatively large proportion of these being Somali . 16.1% of
588-637: The Avenue Park Stadium in Greenford and North Greenford United F.C. , which plays at Berkeley Fields. The borough is also home to one of the country's top athletics clubs, with Ealing Southall and Middlesex AC based at Perivale Athletics Track. The club has a successful history, with many national and international honours, including the double Olympic gold medallist, Kelly Holmes. In 2020 the club celebrated their 100th anniversary. The numerous National Rail and London Underground stations in
630-563: The Building In The Green Belt? report to look into the commuting patterns in London's metropolitan green belt, to test the claims made in the Adam Smith report. Their study found only 7.4% of commuters, who lived near a railway station actually travelled to London by train on a regular basis with the vast majority (72%) travelling by private vehicle to jobs in their hometown and to other places not within London. Thus
672-803: The Clerk of the Council of all local planning authorities (impliedly who had not done so already) to establish Green Belts "wherever it is desirable....(a) to check further growth of a large built-up area; (b) to prevent neighbouring towns from merging into one another ; or (c) preserve the special character of a town." This decision was made in tandem with the New Towns Act 1946 ( 9 & 10 Geo. 6 . c. 68), which accompanied other acts turning to commercial use or low density bomb-stricken parts of Inner London, providing new homes for residents in districts of Outer London which would accept social housing and founding
714-520: The French government major policies to reduce "regional disparity". Labour's Attlee ministry acted similarly in Britain, first enacting the New Towns Act 1946 ( 9 & 10 Geo. 6 . c. 68) and issuing Circulars and Planning Policies for local government councils to implement including accelerating the designation of the Metropolitan Green Belt. The first policy groundwork to the Metropolitan Green Belt
756-597: The South Acton ward was black, whilst 15.9% of the East Acton ward was black. The Caribbean population of Ealing Borough is also mostly concentrated in these two wards of Acton. In a speech to mark the 70th anniversary of the Indian Journalists' Association and of Indian independence on 15 August 1947 North Ealing MP Stephen Pound said: "There is North Ealing, South Ealing and Darjeeling " referring to
798-541: The UK freely; in 2011 the borough had the UK's highest proportion of Polish speakers at 6% of the population. This has also led to an increase in Polish social centres in the borough. The population is highly concentrated in Acton , Greenford and Perivale . Southall in the west of the borough is home to one of the largest South Asian communities in the UK, the majority of whom are Sikhs . The community first developed in
840-896: The adjoining Perceval House on Uxbridge Road in Ealing. Since 2000, for elections to the London Assembly , the borough forms part of the Ealing and Hillingdon constituency. The London Borough of Ealing is represented by three Members of Parliament (MPs), elected in the following constituencies: There are four fire stations within the London Borough of Ealing. Southall and Northolt have similar-sized station grounds and both house two pumping appliances. Southall attended some 700 incidents more than their Northolt counterparts in 2006/07. Ealing , with two pumping appliances, and Acton , one pump and two fire investigation units, are
882-413: The areas designated as the Metropolitan Green Belt in 2014. Between 2009 and 2014 there was a reduction of 435 hectares (1,070 acres; 1.68 sq mi). By 2014 the only Inner London Borough to have had Green Belt, Greenwich , had lost its few acres of green belt designation. Every borough or equivalent district of the reduced counties of Surrey and Hertfordshire has Green Belt as does Bedfordshire,
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#1732802590026924-411: The borough are: In March 2011, the main forms of transport that residents used to travel to work were: driving a car or van, 21.8% of all residents aged 16–74; underground, metro, light rail, tram, 18.0%; bus, minibus or coach, 9.2%; on foot, 4.7%; train, 4.0%; work mainly at or from home, 3.0%; bicycle, 2.0%. In April 2009 the council voted to call on Transport for London to look into the proposal for
966-406: The most affected areas, think the trend towards ever taller, bolder skyscrapers has gone too far. More than 400 buildings of more than 20 floors in 2016 were tentatively proposed by developers in London. Among respondents, six out of ten backed a limit on the height of new skyscrapers, with the same proportion backing restrictions on the number of buildings with more than 50 floors. The table lists
1008-499: The new Green Belt which almost unwaveringly elected majority- Conservative councils. Such private housing-dominant bastions of the Green Belt being Edgware , Amersham , Staines upon Thames , Surbiton , Sevenoaks and Epping . In the 1938–1950s period, earmarking of the Green Belt intra-London infill areas continued to be earmarked for housing and those to "round off" the shape of London as official policy. A direct consequence
1050-488: The new towns in Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire, the government decided to extend the Metropolitan Green Belt northwards to include almost all of Hertfordshire . The Metropolitan Green Belt now covers parts of 68 different Districts or Boroughs. London's green belt was extended after 1955, in places to a distance of 35 miles out. The belt is subject to minor annual variations, and covers an area approximately three times
1092-667: The option of limited green belt land release in their Local Plans, according to legally necessary "exceptional circumstances" envisioned by the 1955 Act. The London Society heightened debate about the city's green belt, in 2014 in its report entitled "Green Sprawl". Other organisations, including the Planning Officers Society, echoed with specific calls for a UK Governmental review and proposals to balance land release for with concepts to compensate habitat loss and mitigate pollution, restitutionally (as if never converted). The Adam Smith Institute wrote
1134-479: The other two appliances in the area. The ward of Northfield had over forty malicious calls made from it, more than twice as many as any other ward within Ealing. Ealing has a total of 91 state-run schools and nurseries. There are 13 high schools under the domain of the local education authority, 12 of which are either comprehensive, foundation or voluntary-aided, and one city academy. A number of successful independent schools, including St Benedict's School (co-ed),
1176-486: The outward growth of London was seen to be firmly repressed, residents owning properties further from the built-up area also campaigned for this policy of urban restraint, partly to safeguard their own investments but often invoking the paradigm English thinking running from John Ruskin to at least John Betjeman , a scenic/rustic argument which lays the blame for most social ills upon urban influences and which leads few retired people to live in London. In mid-1971, mindful of
1218-509: The popularity of Gaelic games in the community. Country flags for example can be seen flown on the outside or hung inside of various pubs in the area, especially on St Patrick's Day. St Benedict's School has also had a long term affiliation with the Irish community in Ealing, as it is a Catholic school. Many Irish members of the Ealing borough attend Ealing Abbey which is linked to St Benedict's School . Faith in Ealing (2021 census) Ealing has
1260-508: The post-war new towns. Created under the New Towns Act outside of the belt were Basildon , Bracknell , Harlow , Hatfield , Hemel Hempstead , Milton Keynes and Stevenage . Much funding was outlaid in new roads, railway stations and social housing . Contrasting to these new towns such a degree of social housing was still as strongly resisted as possible in upmarket suburbs and most of the existing exurbs well-connected to London in
1302-516: The proposal put forward in the Adam Smith report could result in 3.96 to 7.45 million additional car journeys per week on already congested roads around London. CPRE say it is a myth to connect green belts to rising house prices, since there is no clear difference in house prices between cities with green belts and cities without them, and both land and house prices are inflated by other factors such as investment. A survey in 2016, by Ipsos Mori , found that many Londoners, particularly those who live in
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1344-477: The relatively large Asian population. There are also churches and centres for London's Hungarian and Assyrian communities in South Ealing. As of the 2011 census, Hanger Hill had, at 13%, the largest proportion of people aged 65 and over. The lowest were East Acton and Southall Green, at 8% each. Ealing is home to Ealing Studios , and was a major centre of the UK film industry. Brentford F.C. draw
1386-402: The remaining identifying as Arab or other ethnicity. The main religions of the borough's population in 2011 were Christianity (44%), Islam (16%) Hinduism (9%) and Sikhism (8%); 15% stated they had no religion and a further 7% did not state any religion. The borough has a long-standing Irish community which is particularly visible through the number of established Irish pubs in the borough and
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1470-740: The size of London. Extension has taken place to take in large parts of the Surrey Hills , Chiltern Hills and three of the areas known as various Wealds including Epping Forest , as such extension pre-dates certain largely duplicative protections which cover those areas, particularly Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty . Redesignation includes for transport or civil engineering infrastructure, housing and non-agricultural industry, retail and non-green or blue buffer leisure. In general agriculture and open-air leisure uses, including golf courses, and fresh water reservoirs (often used for sailing), can be designated green belt land. All Local Authorities have
1512-574: The term was coined in 1902 by borough surveyor Charles Jones. This is reflected by the tree emblem on its council logo and its coat of arms . Within the borough are two garden suburbs, Brentham Garden Suburb and Bedford Park . 330 hectares within the borough are designated as part of the Metropolitan Green Belt . The neighbouring boroughs are (clockwise from north): Harrow , Brent , Hammersmith and Fulham , Hounslow and Hillingdon . A local government district called Ealing
1554-551: The three districts of Bedfordshire and a small area in Copthorne , Sussex . As of 2017/18, Government statistics show the planning designation covered 513,860 hectares (1,269,800 acres) of land. For some years after 1580 Elizabeth I of England banned new building in a three-mile wide belt around the City of London , in an attempt to stop the spread of plague. However, this was not widely enforced, relatively short-lived and it
1596-474: Was created in 1863. Such districts were reconstituted as urban districts under the Local Government Act 1894 . Ealing was then incorporated to become a municipal borough in 1901. The borough was significantly enlarged in 1926, when it absorbed the neighbouring urban districts of Greenford and Hanwell , and in 1928, when it absorbed the parish of Northolt . The London Borough of Ealing
1638-473: Was created in 1965 under the London Government Act 1963 , covering the combined area of the former boroughs of Ealing , Acton and Southall . The area was transferred from Middlesex to Greater London to become one of the 32 London Boroughs. Ealing borough is made up of seven major towns: The local authority is Ealing Council, which meets at Ealing Town Hall and has its main offices in
1680-691: Was in Herbert Morrison 's 1934 leadership of the London County Council . It was first formally proposed by the Greater London Regional Planning Committee in 1935, "to provide a reserve supply of public open spaces and of recreational areas and to establish a green belt or girdle of open space". The ongoing policy decisions made were approved and entrenched in an advisory Greater London Plan prepared by Patrick Abercrombie in 1944 (which sought
1722-526: Was possible to buy dispensations which reduced the effect. The concept was also inspired by those elsewhere in Europe, one being inner buffer zones and broad boulevards to separate non-ancient parts. One re-used extensive ramparts more like protective fields to serve old city walls , the Ringstraße , in inner Vienna before 1900 in which numerous parks have been laid out. The first major proposals for
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1764-526: Was that when London was redrawn (namely from the 1889 County of London to Greater London ) its area in 1965 was made five times greater. This selective and encouraged urbanisation, coupled with the New Towns, ensured authorities did not need to expect a shortage of housing and were centrally lobbied (and in some cases also locally lobbied) to designate land as Green Belt in order to offset congestion and pollution consequent upon their policies of growth. As
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