Talk:Greater London

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To-do list for Greater London: edit · history · watch · refresh
  • Improve History section
  • Copyedit to give this article clear purpose in relation to the London article
  • Explain how powers and responsibilities are split between CoL, GLA, LA, ALG and London boroughs
  • Improve presentation of data and statistics

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[edit] Archived talk

[edit] Area stats linking to wrong page

In the info-box on the right hand side, the area "1580 km²" links incorrectly to the page "1 E7 km²".

It should link to "1 E9 km²". There doesn't seem to be a way to fix this, as it seems to be encoded somewhere else.

(While I'm at it, the text mentions 1579km² (cf 1580)... we should be consistent, so which is more authoritative?)

--Arcman 07:00, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Boundary review

The Times of February 24, 1971 has a story 'GLC seeks boundary review to extend its authority', which is pretty much self-explanatory. Morwen - Talk 23:03, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Ken suggested expanding the boundaries to the M25 with a press release in 2004 [1] after the result of a telephone poll by MORI. As far as I can tell nothing further came of it other than a seminar. MRSC 06:50, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] History

There's some interesting history about early proposals for creating Greater London here if anyone's interested. G-Man * 18:38, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Population

Where did all the residents go? Even from 1970 to 1980 there was just under one million people moving out of London. Was it one group of people or was it spread over all demographics? Greater_London#Population - Ctbolt 04:55, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

After the war, white working class people were moved out of Inner London to the large new towns like Basildon and Stevenage. MRSC • Talk 10:25, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
"were moved out of" is not an accurate description! Thousands of homes were destroyed by German bombing raids during WW2. As a result, and in an attempt to improve standards of living amongst the people, after the war large numbers of people (of all classes) were displaced to the aforementioned New Towns. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.107.182.109 (talk) 22:39, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Status

Why in the status box does it link to Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England when these were created in 1974 and Greater London has never been defined as one of these.

To the best of my knowledge GL was never actually defined as a county (although it is commonly thought of as such) merely as an 'administrative area'. G-Man * 23:43, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Probably because of this section. Although defined earlier it sits at the same level. MRSC • Talk 18:36, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Source Data

I am looking for the original data from the map of greater London boroughs so I can update Open Street Map. Acts of parliament are probably crown copyright, so I wonder how this was drawn for Wikipedia. Is this information in the public domain/creative commons? --TimSC 12:51, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Demographics section.

Has anyone else noticed something very, erm, wrong with it? Zazaban (talk) 06:25, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Elastic term

There have been several attempts to change the article to suggest that Greater London is currently a variously defined area. The literature isn't telling us this post-1965. Pre-1965 is another matter, with a variety of definitions and sources to draw on. I've created a "Early incarnations" to detail this. 20:42, 24 April 2008 (UTC)