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London Borough of Brent
Shown within Greater London
Geography
Status	London borough
Area — Total	Ranked 284th 43.24 km2 (16.7 sq mi)
ONS code	00AE
Admin HQ	Forty Lane, Wembley
Demographics
Population — Total (2008 est.) — Density	Ranked 38th (of 326) 270,600 6,259 /km2 (16,211 /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] 30.9% 5.7% 9.4% 1.0% 0.7% 1.1% 1.1% 18.1% 4.3% 0.6% 4.8% 9.4% 7.7% 1.4% 1.3% 2.6%
Politics
Brent London Borough Council
Leadership	Leader & Cabinet
Mayor	Jim O'Sullivan [2]
Executive	Liberal Democrat / Conservative
MPs	Dawn Butler Barry Gardiner Sarah Teather
London Assembly — Member	Brent and Harrow Navin Shah
Coat of Arms
Official website	http://www.brent.gov.uk/

The London Borough of Brent ( pronunciation (help·info)) is a London borough in North-West London, UK and forms part of Outer London. The major area is Wembley.

It borders Harrow to the north-west, Barnet to the north-east, Camden to the east and Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, and Kensington & Chelsea to the south, and Westminster to the southeast. Most of the eastern border is formed by the Roman road Watling Street, now the modern A5.

Brent has a mixture of residential, industrial and commercial land. Wembley is the major town of Brent, which is home to Wembley Stadium and Wembley Arena. According to the 2001 census, the Borough of Brent has the United Kingdom's highest percentage of people born outside of the country (69.10%).

Brent is in the HA postcode area and the NW postcode area. Postcodes that cover Brent includes: HA0, HA1, HA3, HA9, NW2, NW6, NW9 and NW10.

The Brent Cross shopping centre is not located in Brent, but in the London Borough of Barnet. It takes its name from the River Brent which runs through the site.

Contents 1 Areas 2 History 3 Motto 4 Wards 5 Political composition 6 Demographics 7 Education 8 Brent Street Dancers 9 Compulsory recycling 10 London Fire Brigade 11 Information technology 12 Landmarks 13 Parks and open spaces 14 References 15 External links 15.1 Video clips

[edit] Areas

The following are towns and districts in Brent, followed by the areas postcode and the Zone it is located to Central London.

• Alperton HA0, Zone 4
• Brent Park NW10, Zone 3
• Brondesbury NW6, Zone 2
• Brondesbury Park NW6, Zone 2
• Church End NW10, Zone 3
• Cricklewood NW2, Zone 3 (note: parts of Cricklewood are in Camden and in Barnet)
• Dollis Hill NW10, Zone 3
• Harlesden NW10, Zone 2/3
• Kensal Green NW10, Zone 2 (note: parts of Kensal Green is in postcode NW6)
• Kilburn NW6, Zone 2 (note: part of Kilburn is in Camden)
• Kingsbury NW9, Zone 4
• Neasden NW10, Zone 3
• North Wembley HA0, Zone 4
• Northwick Park HA3, Zone 4
• Park Royal NW10, Zone 3 (note: part of Park Royal Acton is in Ealing)
• Preston HA9, Zone 4
• Queensbury HA8, Zone 4 (note: part of Queensbury is in Harrow)
• Queen's Park NW6, Zone 2
• Stonebridge NW10, Zone 3
• South Kenton HA3, Zone 4
• Sudbury HA0, Zone 4
• Tokyngton HA9, Zone 4
• Wembley HA9, Zone 4
• Wembley Park HA9, Zone 4
• Willesden Green NW10, Zone 2/3

[edit] History

Brent was formed in 1965 from the area of the former Municipal Borough of Wembley and Municipal Borough of Willesden of Middlesex. Its name derives from the River Brent which runs through the Borough.

[edit] Motto

Brent's motto is Forward Together.

[edit] Wards

Brent is divided into 21 Electoral Wards, some which share a name with the traditional areas above, others include Barnhill, Dudden Hill, Fryent, Mapesbury and Welsh Harp.^[3]

Brent is currently divided into three constituencies, Brent North, Brent East and Brent South. Following a boundary review, it will be divided into two constituencies contained wholly within the borough - Brent Central and Brent North - plus a third, Hampstead and Kilburn, which will be split between Brent and the neighbouring borough of Camden. These new seats are to be fought at the 2009 or 2010 United Kingdom general election.

[edit] Political composition

Council elections were held on Thursday 4 May 2006. Labour lost control of the borough with 14 of their seats falling to Liberal Democrats.^[4] The political composition of Brent Council (with gains or losses following the 2006 local elections in brackets) was:
Liberal Democrats: 27(+18 Councillors)
Labour: 21 (-14)
Conservative: 15 (-4)

Following defections and expulsions the composition is now
Liberal Democrats - 26
Labour - 20
Conservatives - 14
Democratic Conservative Group - 2
Independent - 1

The leader of the Council is currently Liberal Democrat Paul Lorber.

[edit] Demographics

Population
Year	Pop.	%±
1801	2,022	—
1811	2,690	33.0%
1821	3,074	14.3%
1831	3,991	29.8%
1841	5,416	35.7%
1851	5,646	4.2%
1861	14,749	161.2%
1871	23,852	61.7%
1881	32,955	38.2%
1891	67,674	105.4%
1901	105,613	56.1%
1911	164,833	56.1%
1921	202,448	22.8%
1931	248,656	22.8%
1941	277,842	11.7%
1951	310,457	11.7%
1961	294,804	−5.0%
1971	280,009	−5.0%
1981	251,249	−10.3%
1991	248,569	−1.1%
2001	263,463	6.0%
Source: A Vision of Britain through time

In 1801, the civil parishes that form the modern borough had a total population of 2,022. This rose slowly throughout the 19th century, as the district became built up; reaching 5,646 in the middle of the century. When the railways arrived the rate of population growth increased. The population peaked in the 1960s, when industry began to relocate from London.

In the 2001 Census, the borough had a population of 263,464 – of whom 127,806 were male, and 135,658 female. Of those stating a choice, 47.71% described themselves as Christian, 17.71% as Hindu, 12.26% as Muslim and 9.96% as having no religion. Of the population, 39.96% were in full-time employment and 7.86% in part-time employment – compared to a London average of 42.64% and 8.62%, respectively. Residents were predominantly owner-occupiers, with 23.17% owning their house outright, and a further 31.33% owning with a mortgage. 10.59% were in local authority housing, with a further 13.29% renting from a housing association, or other registered social landlord.^[5]

[edit] Education

[edit] Brent Street Dancers

Brent won the country's Street Dance Award of this year, which was held around March 2009.

[edit] Compulsory recycling

Recycling has been compulsory in the borough of Brent since 4 August 2008.Through a green box collection scheme the borough aims to improve on the 25 per cent recycled waste it already achieves.

[edit] London Fire Brigade

The London Borough of Brent has three fire stations within the borough; Park Royal, Wembley and Willesden. Brent has a mixture of residential, industrial and commercial land. Most notably, Wembley National Stadium is within the area - on match days over 90,000 peoples' safety are the responsibility of the LFB. Wembley covers the largest area in the borough, 19.1 km^sq.^[6] Two pumping appliances, a fire rescue unit and an aerial ladder platform are based there. Willesden, for its relatively small, in comparison to Wembley, station ground (10.5 km^sq), responded to over a thousand incidents in 2006/2007.^[6] Two pumping appliances reside there. Park Royal, with its one pumping appliance and an incident response unit, has one of the smallest station grounds; just 8.1 km^sq.

Within the borough, 4,105 incidents occurred in 2006/2007.^[6]

[edit] Information technology

In 2007, the council set an objective for Brent to become a centre of excellence in the use of structured and unstructured information.^[7] This has brought strategic focus onto two areas:

• Information Management (using new data governance/security security models, data sharing and an IPSV based taxonomy);
• Client Index (the deployment of Customer Data Integration and Data quality software to create and maintain a single view of Brent's customers).

The Client Index contains more than 1.2 million records concerning some 230,000 people. It links data from back-office systems that support the council's services (Council Tax, Housing, Benefits, Electoral Registration, Social Care, CRM, Schools, Libraries and Complaints). The single view of customers is maintained using Initiate Identity Hub software with data cleansing provided by dn:Director software from Datanomic.

A study by the Data Connects group (a collaboration between local authorities) estimated that the use of this technology could result in savings of £1.4m per annum. Tony Ellis, Head of IT at Brent, claimed that improvements in the quality of data delivered improvements in customer service, reduced the cost of contacting customers and reduced instances of fraud.^[8]

[edit] Landmarks

• Wembley Stadium
• Wembley Arena
• Neasden Temple

[edit] Parks and open spaces

• Roe Green Park

[edit] References

[edit] External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Brent

• Brent Council website

[edit] Video clips

• Brent Council YouTube channel

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Coordinates: 51°33′58″N 0°16′26″W / 51.56611°N 0.27389°W / 51.56611; -0.27389