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A Royal Commission was set up under Sir Edwin Herbert in
1957 and reported in London vacation rental 1960, recommending
the creation of 52 new London boroughs as the basis for local
government. It further recommended that the LCC be replaced
by a weaker strategic authority, with responsibility for public
transport, road schemes, housing development and regeneration.
The recommendations were accepted in most part, but the number
of new boroughs reduced instead to 32. Greater London covered
the counties of London and most of Middlesex, plus parts of
Essex, London vacation rental Kent and Surrey, a small part
of Hertfordshire and the County Borough of Croydon, County
Borough of East Ham and County Borough of West Ham which had
been independent of county control.
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London vacation rental - some areas on
the boundary of the area fought successfully to be excluded
from it, notably the Sunbury-on-Thames Urban District,
Staines Urban District and Potters Bar Urban District of Middlesex,
fearing increased local taxation. Other areas in the Report
that were not eventually made part of Greater London included
Epsom and Ewell, Caterham and Warlingham, Esher, and Weybridge.
GLC councillors elected for the LCC area became ex officio
members of the Inner London Education Authority,London vacation
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in outer London, the London boroughs each operated as a local
education authority.
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The GLC was responsible for running strategic services such
as the fire service, emergency planning, waste disposal and
flood prevention. The GLC shared responsibility with the London
boroughs for providing roads, housing, city planning and leisure
services. It had a very limited role in direct service London
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of the London boroughs. The GLC did not take control of public
transport from the London Transport Board until 1970 and lost
control to London Regional Transport in 1984.
Under the 1963 Act, the GLC was required to produce a Greater
London Development Plan. The plan included in its wide ranging
remit: population changes, employment, housing, pollution,
transport, roads, London vacation rental the central
area, growth and development areas, urban open spaces and
the urban landscape, public services and utilities and planning
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