Comments on: Wimbledon

By: Pete Whitehead

Pete Whitehead — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:20:49 +0000

There are two Kilburn wards in Hampstead & Kilburn and there will be two Queensbury wards in the proposed Stanmore seat.
There was almost two Ashridges in SW Herts, but it gained the Dacorum Ashridge and lost the Three Rivers one.
There are two Brooklands wards in Wythenshawe & Sale east
If my counter proposals for London are accepted, there will be two Queens Park wards in Queens Park

By: Dalek

Dalek — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:31:00 +0000

Quite.

It will be interesting how the constituent wards will be listed in public documents to avoid confusion.

This must be the first time that a parliamentary constituency has had two wards of the same name.

By: Joe James B

Joe James B — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:29:53 +0000

I’d have created a rural cross-border seat
of Wimbledon, Nobdondale, and Stenchampstead.

By: Barnaby Marder

Barnaby Marder — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:38:31 +0000

Indeed, of very different political hues.

By: Dalek

Dalek — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:38:00 +0000

True…thats why Hyde Park worked in place of Kensington & Westminster.

Regents Park works as well because there is a Regents Park ward in Camden and Westminster.

By: LBernard

LBernard — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:39:01 +0000

In some cases though Dalek there are two prominant places that make up the constituency such as Mitcham and Morden or Hampstead and Kilburn.

By: Dalek

Dalek — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:36:04 +0000

I think that the notion of naming all the Greater London constituencies with a single place name and the London prefix would now make sence.

The London Borough’s are no longer relevant is building blocks for parliamentary constituencies only their wards. The GLA boundary is the only one that is sacrosant now.

London Clapham (Clapham Common)
London Hyde Park(Westminster & Kensington)
London Regents Park (Camden & Regents Park)
London Hampstead
London Wembley
London Willesden
London Kingston
London Wimbledon
London Putney ect.

By: LBernard

LBernard — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:25:46 +0000

“Perhaps now that there is a GLA again, more smaller boroughs would make sense, with shared services to get better cost efficiency”

I have been in favour of this idea but I think it would prove a long task to try and pair areas up which match each other perfectly and you don’t want boroughs that are too small. In this case Merton could be split into two with Wimbledon forming one borough and Mitcham and Morden forming another. Similarly Chingford in Waltham Forest could be removed and joined with Wanstead, South Woodford and Woodford proper to form a new borough leaving the rest of Waltham Forest with more in common and the rest of Redbridge covering Ilford and its suburbs.

By: Pete Whitehead

Pete Whitehead — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:13:58 +0000

They were similar althoguh this seat includes Merton which was in Merton & Morden from 1950 to 1974. It also excludes Wimbledon Park which goes to Putney

By: Dalek

Dalek — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:11:10 +0000

Wimbledon, Malden & Coombe sounds better that Wimbledon & New Malden.

The Winbledon constituency was briefly based on these boundaries from 1950 to 1955.