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London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
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Geography
Status	London borough
Area — Total	Ranked 350th 16.40 km² (6.3 sq mi)
ONS code	00AN
Admin HQ	King Street, Hammersmith
Demographics
Population — Total (2006 est.) — Density	Ranked 89th (of 354) 171,400 10,451/km² (27,068/sq mi)
Ethnicity White British White Irish Other White White & Black Caribbean White & Black African White & Asian Other Mixed Indian Pakistani Bangladeshi Other Asian Black Caribbean Black African Other Black Chinese Other	(2005 estimates)[1] 59.8% 3.9% 14.4% 1.1% 0.6% 1.1% 1.0% 1.9% 1.2% 0.8% 1.3% 4.4% 4.4% 0.9% 1.1% 2.0%
Politics
Leadership	Leader & Cabinet
Mayor	Melanie Scott Russell
Executive	Conservative
MPs	Greg Hands (Con) Andy Slaughter (Lab)
London Assembly — Member	West Central Angie Bray (Con)
Coat of Arms
Official website	http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/

The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham (pronunciation (help·info)) is a London borough in West London and forms part of Inner London.

It was formed in 1965 by merging the Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith and the Metropolitan Borough of Fulham. It was known as the London Borough of Hammersmith until its name was changed on 1 January 1979 by the borough council.

The borough is known internationally for the 1908 Olympics, hosted in White City, and for being home to the main facilities of the BBC at BBC Television Centre.

Traversed by the A4 Great West Road and the A40 Westway, many corporations have offices in the borough, and a large development is underway at White City with new transport links and a large shopping mall.

The borough includes the areas:

• Fulham
• Hammersmith
• Barons Court
• Hurlingham
• Old Oak Common
• Parsons Green
• Sands End
• Shepherd's Bush
• Walham Green
• West Kensington
• White City

see also parks and open spaces in Hammersmith and Fulham

According to the 2001 census Hammersmith and Fulham has a population of 165,242. 58% of the borough is White British, 20% white non-British, 5% black Caribbean, 5% black African with various other ethnicities (including Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Chinese) making up the remaining 11 percent. There are also large Polish and Irish communities.

The borough has the second-highest proportion of single adults of any borough in England and Wales (55%), and a higher than average for the London area of young adults aged 20-29 (24%).

Forty-four percent of households are owner–occupiers, and 22% of households were listed as "other" - that is, not single persons living alone or families. These are generally two or more unrelated adults living together, such as students or cohabiting couples.

The borough comprises a patchwork of affluent as well as deprived neighbourhoods. The unemployment rate is only 5%, although of these, 29% were listed as long-term unemployed.

See external links below for more census information from the borough.

The front of Hammersmith and Fulham town hall is a mixture of styles, with a modern block bolted on to, and obscuring, what would have once been an architecturally consistent red-brick portico. (September 2005)

The modest rear entrance to the town hall is guarded by Old Father Thames, Hammersmith's tutelary deity. (September 2005)

Hammersmith & Fulham is administered by 46 councillors. The Conservative Party currently holds a majority of 33 seats, thus forming the Administration. The Council leader is Cllr. Stephen Greenhalgh (Con).

Labour forms the Opposition on the Council with 13 seats and is led by Cllr. Stephen Cowan. Labour had had a majority on the council between 1986 to 2006. Power switched to the Conservatives following the May 2006 local elections.

The borough is divided into 16 electoral wards, all bar two electing three councillors apiece. These are:

Addison 

Councillors Helen Binmore (Con), Belinda Donovan (Con), Peter Tobias (Con)

Askew 

Councillors Gill Dickenson (Lab), Rory Vaughan (Lab), Lisa Homan (Lab)

Avonmore & Brook Green 

Councillors Alexandra Robson (Con), Will Bethell (Con), Robert Iggulden (Con)

College Park & Old Oak 

Councillors Wesley Harcourt (Lab), Reg McLaughlin (Lab)

Fulham Broadway 

Councillors Aidan Burley (Con), Victoria Brocklebank-Fowler (Con), Rachel Ford (Con)

Fulham Reach 

Councillors Gavin Donovan (Con), Paul Bristow (Con), Andrew Johnson (Con)

Hammersmith Broadway 

Councillors Michael Cartwright (Lab), Stephen Cowan (Lab), Lisa Nandy (Lab)

Munster 

Councillors Michael Adam (Con), Adronie Alford (Con), Alex Karmel (Con)

North End 

Councillors Caroline Ffiske (Con), Sarah Gore (Con), Lucy Gugen (Con)

Palace Riverside 

Councillors Donald Johnson (Con), Melanie Scott Russell (Con)

Parson's Green & Walham 

Councillors Nicholas Botterill (Con), Frances Stainton (Con), Mark Loveday (Con)

Ravenscourt Park 

Councillors Lucy Ivimy (Con), Harry Phibbs (Con), Eugenie White (Con)

Sands End 

Councillors Steve Hamilton (Con), Jane Law (Con), Jeanette Bentley (Con)

Shepherd's Bush Green 

Councillors Alexander Chalk (Con), Ed Owen (Lab), Mercy Umeh (Lab)

Town 

Councillors Stephen Greenhalgh (Con), Greg Smith (Con), Antony Lillis (Con)

Wormholt & White City 

Councillors Colin Aherne (Lab), Jean Campbell (Lab), Dame Sally Powell (Lab)

Considering its size, there are an extraordinary number of sporting successes based in the borough. They include:

Hammersmith & Fulham Rugby club are based in the borough and play their home games at Hurlingham Park. They field up to 5 senior sides with the 1st XV currently playing in London NW 3 league. The 2nd XV, 3rd XV and 4th XV teams all compete in the Middlesex Merit Table.

Chelsea Football Club and Fulham Football Club are both based in the borough and play Premiership football. Queens Park Rangers currently play in the country's second level, the Championship, but still can contribute to the borough's claim of having three of the nation's top 44 football teams.

Ex-Nottingham Forest, Newcastle United, West Ham, Manchester City & England international defender Stuart Pearce was born in Shepherd's Bush.

Much-travelled Charlton Athletic striker Marcus Bent was born in Hammersmith.

Sean Davis plays currently for Portsmouth FC and was capped at Under-21 level, he is one of the only players in history for play for the same club in all 4 divisions of English football for Fulham.

Tony Bedeau of Torquay United and Walsall FC was born in Hammersmith in 1979.

Fulham midfielder Lee Cook was born in Hammersmith in 1982.

Linford Christie, Olympic gold medal winner at 100 metres, trained, lived and has a stadium named after him in the borough.

There are a huge number of rowing clubs in the borough, the most famous being Tideway Scullers. Many of Britain's top rowers throughout modern history have trained along the Thames, including Matthew Pinsent and Steve Redgrave who between them have 9 Olympic Gold Medals. Much of the course of the Boat Race is along Hammersmith and Fulham's southern border, on the River Thames.

• Hammersmith and Fulham parks and open spaces
• The "Hammersmith Apollo"

• London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham official website
• Local Labour Party
• Local Conservative Party
• Andy Slaughter MP (Lab) - Andy Slaughter is Labour's parliamentary candidate for the new Hammersmith Constituency
• Greg Hands MP (Con) - for Hammersmith and Fulham and the parliamentary candidate for the new Chelsea and Fulham constituency
• Cllr. Stephen Cowan (Lab) - Leader of the Opposition
• Councillor Paul Bristow (Con) - Councillor for Fulham Reach Ward and Cabinet Member for Residents Services
• Shaun Bailey - (Con) Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Hammersmith
• Riverside Studios
• The Lyric Hammersmith Theatre
• Local Listings Magazine
• Borough Profile

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Districts	Fulham · Hammersmith · Barons Court · Old Oak Common · Parsons Green · Sands End · Shepherd's Bush · Walham Green · West Kensington · White City
Attractions	Fulham Palace · Olympia · Leighton House Museum · Chelsea F.C. · Queens Park Rangers F.C. · Fulham F.C.
Constituencies	Hammersmith and Fulham · Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush
Parks and open spaces in Hammersmith and Fulham

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