Report
The Report of the Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London, 1957–60, (Cmnd. 1164) was published on 19 October 1960. The recommendations in the unanimous report were:
- The establishment of a Regional Council for Greater London. The council was to be entirely elected, with one member for each parliamentary constituency.
- The Regional council was to administer "strategic services" such as town planning, traffic management, education, fire and ambulance services.
- A second tier of local units, called "Greater London Boroughs", would be formed by amalgamation of the existing metropolitan boroughs, county boroughs, municipal boroughs and county districts.
- Greater London Boroughs were to have a population of between 100,000 and 250,000.
- Some services would need to be shared between the two tiers. For example, the regional authority would decide on the educational budget, maintenance of standards, planning of location and types of schools and the recruitment of teachers; the boroughs would oversee the day to day administration of all schools in their area.
The Commission did not include the entire review area within its proposed Greater London region: they excluded Waltham Holy Cross in Essex, Dartford in Kent, Potters Bar in Middlesex and the Elstree and Watford areas of Hertfordshire.
The report proposed a total of fifty-two Greater London Boroughs, to be formed from the following existing areas:
- City of London
- City of Westminster
- Finsbury/Holborn/Shoreditch
- Islington
- Hackney/Stoke Newington
- Bethnal Green/Poplar/Stepney
- Woolwich
- Deptford/Greenwich
- Lewisham
- Camberwell
- Bermondsey/Southwark
- Lambeth
- Wandsworth (part)
- Battersea/Wandsworth (part)
- Hammersmith/Fulham
- Kensington/Chelsea
- Paddington/St Marylebone
- Hampstead/St Pancras
- Chingford/Walthamstow
- Chigwell/Leyton/Wanstead and Woodford
- Ilford
- Romford
- Hornchurch
- Barking/Dagenham
- East Ham
- West Ham
- Bexley/Crayford/Erith
- Chislehurst and Sidcup/Orpington
- Beckenham/Bromley/Penge
- Croydon
- Caterham and Warlingham/Coulsdon and Purley
- Banstead/Epsom and Ewell
- Beddington and Wallington/Carshalton/Sutton and Cheam
- Merton and Morden/Mitcham/Wimbledon
- Barnes/Richmond
- Kingston upon Thames/Malden and Coombe/Surbiton
- Esher/Walton and Weybridge
- Feltham/Staines/Sunbury-on-Thames
- Twickenham
- Heston and Isleworth
- Acton/Brentford and Chiswick
- Ealing
- Hayes and Harlington/Southall
- Ruislip-Northwood/Uxbridge/Yiewsley and West Drayton
- Harrow
- Wembley
- Willesden
- Hendon
- Barnet/East Barnet/Finchley/Friern Barnet
- Hornsey/Southgate/Wood Green
- Edmonton/Tottenham
- Cheshunt/Enfield
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