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Tower Hamlets Council is offering a £175 cash payment to pensioners it has assessed as in need to help with winter pressures. ... credit but are in receipt of council tax support or housing ...
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.
Council Tax is a local taxation system used in England, Scotland and Wales. It is a tax on domestic property, which was introduced in 1993 by the Local Government Finance Act 1992, replacing the short-lived Community Charge (also known as "poll tax"), which in turn replaced the domestic rates.
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 ...
2014 Tower Hamlets London Borough Council election: Bow East (3) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Labour: Rachel Blake: 2,611 : 51.09 : Labour: Marc Francis : 2,308 : 45.16 : Labour: Amina Ali : 2,023 : 39.58 : Tower Hamlets First: Sabia Kamali 989 19.35 Tower Hamlets First: Abdus Salam 977 19.12 Green: Lucy Rees 935 18.29 Tower Hamlets First ...
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 .
As a consequence London County Council opened the Boundary Estate in 1900, a block dwelling estate of tenements in Tower Hamlets. [6] The first four cottage estates were at Norbury, Old Oak, Totterdown Fields and White Hart Lane.
The borough has the second-highest percentage of Muslims in the UK, after the neighbouring London Borough of Tower Hamlets, at 32%. A 2017 report from Trust for London and the New Policy Institute found that 36% of local employees in Newham are in low paid work; the highest percentage of any London borough. Newham also has a 37% poverty rate ...