Hammersmith and Fulham

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London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
Shown within Greater London
Geography
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 (2008 est.) — Density	Ranked 99th (of 326) 172,200 10,497 /km2 (27,187 /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
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
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. Traversed by the east-west main roads of the A4 Great West Road and the A40 Westway, many international corporations have offices in the borough.

History

'The Village' at Westfield Shopping Centre.

The borough 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.

In 1908, the Franco-British Exhibition and Olympic Games were hosted in the borough, at White City, but the site then took many decades to be redeveloped. In 1960, the BBC opened the BBC Television Centre, and in 2008, Westfield London, a large development with new transport links and a shopping centre, finally completed the redevelopment after one hundred years.

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

see also parks and open spaces in Hammersmith and Fulham

Demographics

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.

Economy

Virgin Group operates its headquarters at The School House, 50 Brook Green.^[2] Sony Ericsson has its headquarters in the borough.^[3]

All Nippon Airways operates an office on the fourth floor of Hythe House at 200 Shepherds Bush Road.^[4][5] South African Airways has its United Kingdom office in the South African Airways House.^[6]

Politics

The front of Hammersmith and Fulham town hall is a mixture of styles, with a modern block bolted on to, and obscuring, what would have once been an architecturally consistent red-brick portico. (September 2005)

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)

Sport

Considering its size, there are an extraordinary number of sporting successes based in the borough. They include:

Rugby

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.

Football

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.

Footballers:

• Ex-Nottingham Forest, Newcastle United, West Ham United, Manchester City and 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 Bolton Wanderers and was capped for England under-21s, he is one of the few players in history to play for the same club in all 4 divisions of the English football league 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.

Boxing

• Joe Calzaghe was born in Hammersmith in 1972.

• Frank Bruno was born in Hammersmith in 1961.

Rowing

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.

Education

The modest rear entrance to the town hall is guarded by Old Father Thames, Hammersmith's tutelary deity. (September 2005)

Public libraries in the borough include Askew Road Library, Barons Court Library, Fulham Library, Hammersmith Library, Sands End Library, and Shepherds Bush Library.^[7]

See also

• Hammersmith and Fulham parks and open spaces
• The "Hammersmith Apollo"

References

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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Coordinates: 51°30′N 0°15′W / 51.5°N 0.25°W / 51.5; -0.25