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Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London
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{{distinguish|Royal Commission on London Government}}{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}The Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London, also known as the Herbert Commission, was established in 1957 and published its report in 1960. The report made recommendations for the overhaul of the administration of the capital. They were modified and implemented by the London Government Act 1963.- the content below is remote from Wikipedia
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Membership
The chairman of the Commission was Sir Edwin HerbertThe other members were:{{London Gazette|issue=41253|page=7267|date=13 December 1957}}- Paul Cadbury, chairman of Cadbury Brothers, and former member of Birmingham City Council’s reconstruction committee
- Alice Johnston, member of the National Assistance Board
- William Lawson, president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
- William Mackenzie, professor of government, Victoria University, Manchester
- Sir Charles Morris, vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds
- Sir John Wrigley, former Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government
Terms of reference
The Commission’s terms of reference were to “examine the present system and working of Local Government in the Greater London area; to recommend whether any, and if so what, changes in local government structure and the distribution of local government functions in the area, or any part of it, would better secure effective and convenient local government.”Area under review
- Administrative County of London
- Administrative County of Middlesex
- The county boroughs of Croydon, East Ham and West Ham
- The following county districts in the county of Surrey:
- The boroughs of Barnes, Beddington and Wallington, Epsom and Ewell, Kingston upon Thames, Malden and Coombe, Mitcham, Richmond, Surbiton, Sutton and Cheam and Wimbledon
- The urban districts of Banstead, Carshalton, Caterham and Warlingham, Coulsdon and Purley, Esher, Merton and Morden and Walton and Weybridge,
- The following county districts in the county of Kent:
- The boroughs of Beckenham, Bexley, Bromley, Dartford and Erith
- The urban districts of Chislehurst and Sidcup, Crayford, Orpington and Penge,
- The following county districts and parishes in the county of Hertford,
- The borough of Watford,
- The urban districts of Barnet, Bushey, Cheshunt, Chorleywood, East Barnet and Rickmansworth,
- The rural district of Elstree
- The parish of Northaw in the rural district of Hatfield
- The parishes of Aldenham and Watford Rural in the rural district of Watford,
- The following county districts in the county of Essex:
- The boroughs of Barking, Chingford, Dagenham, Ilford, Leyton, Romford, Walthamstow and Wanstead and Woodford
- The urban districts of Chigwell, Hornchurch and Waltham Holy Cross.
Work
The Commission held 114 meetings, heard oral evidence on 70 occasions and asked nearly 16,000 questions.E. W. Gilbert, Review of Report of the Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London, 1957-60, (Cmnd. 1164), in The Geographical Journal, Vol. 127, No. 3. (Sep., 1961), pp. 350-351. The Commission was also able to draw on the work of the Greater London Group of the London School of Economics, which had carried out an extensive survey on local government in London.The evidence heard by the Commission was contradictory: the Ministry of Local Government and Housing depicted a system that was breaking down, but the local authorities vigorously defended the status quo.In the absence of consensus, the Commission drew up two criteria by which to guide its recommendations:- Efficiency and economy in the use of human and financial resources
- Maintenance of healthy local democracy
Report
The Report of the Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London, 1957â60, (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.
- 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
Government reaction and legislation
By May 1961, the government had announced that a number of areas on the edge of the conurbation would be excluded from Greater London. It published a white paper on 29 November 1961 that accepted most of the recommendations. However, it felt education should be a borough-level function in most parts of the capital, with a single authority for central London. It also proposed larger, fewer boroughs.London Government: Government Proposals for Reorganization, Cmnd. 1562 In December, the government proposed that 34 boroughs, rather than 52, and detailed their boundaries.Government Plan for 34 London Boroughs. The Times, 19 December 1961. By the time of the introduction of legislation in 1962, the number of boroughs had been reduced to 32, and the area of Greater London again reduced by the exclusion of Banstead, Caterham and Warlingham, Cheshunt, Chigwell (except Hainault), Epsom and Ewell, Esher, Staines, Sunbury-on-Thames, and Walton and Weybridge.The London Government Act 1963 came into effect on 1 April 1965, with the creation of the Greater London Council and the 32 London borough councils.References
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