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The London Borough of Hounslow and its council were created under the London Government Act 1963, with the first election held in 1964.For its first year the council acted as a shadow authority alongside the area's three outgoing authorities, being the borough councils of Brentford and Chiswick and Heston and Isleworth and the urban district council of Feltham.
Council Tax Benefit was a means-tested rebate that potentially rebated 100% of a claimant's Council Tax bill. The rebate would be reduced by a fifth of any qualifying income above a certain level; benefits did not qualify for this calculation, but most other income did. In effect, Council Tax Benefit was a rebate for people with low incomes.
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At 5.5%, Hounslow has one of the largest proportion of Sikhs in London, and the eighth-highest in England. Hounslow also has a very large Somali community (the 3rd largest in London behind Ealing and Brent). Somalia being the most common African representation in the borough, mainly settling in areas such as Heston and Brentford.
Hounslow has a high proportion of people who identify themselves as BAME (Black, Asian and minority Ethnic), and it is the borough's most diverse town. In seven of Hounslow's eight electoral wards, the BAME proportion is above 70%. [19] The town has a large British Asian and Somali community. [20]
The TW postcode area, also known as the Twickenham postcode area, [2] is a group of twenty postcode districts in south-east England, within thirteen post towns.These cover parts of south-west London and north-west Surrey, plus a very small part of Berkshire.
The Greater London Authority (GLA), colloquially known by the metonym City Hall, is the devolved regional governance body of Greater London, England.It consists of two political branches: an executive Mayor (currently Sadiq Khan) and the 25-member London Assembly, which serves as a means of checks and balances on the Mayor.
After Hounslow Civic Centre became uneconomic to operate, [1] Hounslow London Borough Council decided to procure a smaller facility which would be located in the centre of the borough and more accessible to the public. [2] The site they selected on Bath Road had previously been occupied by a car park. [3]