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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 ...
Sutton London Borough Council: Liberal Democrat: Civic Offices, St Nicholas Way 16.93 sq mi (43.8 km 2) 209,602 18 Tower Hamlets: Tower Hamlets London Borough Council: Independent: Town Hall, Whitechapel Road 7.63 sq mi (19.8 km 2) 325,789
Pages in category "Districts of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
In February 2015 Tower Hamlets London Borough Council acquired the old hospital for £9 million and announced plans to convert it into a new "civic centre" to which it would relocate from its existing premises at Mulberry Place. [4] [5] The project was intended to bring wider regeneration benefits to the Tower Hamlets area. [6]
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.
In 2018, Newham had the lowest life expectancy and the highest rate of heart disease of all London boroughs together with the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. [ 24 ] In 2019, the BBC reported that Newham had the highest rate of tuberculosis in the UK at 107 per 100 000 population, which was higher than Rwanda (69) and Iraq (45) according to WHO ...
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.