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The London Borough of Tower Hamlets and its council were created under the London Government Act 1963, with the first election held in 1964. [3] For its first year the council acted as a shadow authority alongside the area's three outgoing authorities, being the three metropolitan borough councils of Bethnal Green, Poplar and Stepney.
The earliest reference to the name "Tower Hamlets" was in 1554, when the Council of the Tower of London ordered a muster of "men of the hamlets which owe their service to the tower". This covered a wider area than the present-day borough, and its military relationship with the Tower is thought to have been several centuries earlier than the ...
Mulberry Place, formerly Tower Hamlets Town Hall, is a building in Nutmeg Lane, Blackwall, London. It was the headquarters of Tower Hamlets London Borough Council from 1992 to 2023, before their relocation to the new Tower Hamlets Town Hall in Whitechapel Road .
2014 Tower Hamlets London Borough Council election: Whitechapel (3) ; Party Candidate Votes % ±% Tower Hamlets First: Shahed Ali : 2,139 : 45.01 : Tower Hamlets First: Abdul Asad
The City of London Corporation built tenements in the Farringdon Road in 1865, [1] but this was an isolated instance. The first council to build housing as an integrated policy was Liverpool Corporation, [2] starting with St Martin's Cottages in Ashfield Street, Vauxhall, completed in 1869. [3]
In the financial year 2019/20, local authorities received 22% of their funding from grants, 52% from council tax and 27% from retained business rates. [61] In the financial year 2023/24, 51% of revenue expenditure is expected to come from UK Government grants, 31% from council tax and 15% from retained business rates. [27]
Tower Hamlets Town Hall is a municipal facility in Whitechapel Road, Whitechapel, London. The new structure, which has been commissioned as the headquarters of Tower Hamlets London Borough Council , incorporates the façade of the old Royal London Hospital which is a Grade II listed building .
Tower Hamlets was an electoral division for the purposes of elections to the Greater London Council. The constituency elected two councillors for a three-year term in 1964, 1967, and 1970. The constituency elected two councillors for a three-year term in 1964, 1967, and 1970.