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The London commuter belt is the name given to the built-up area surrounding and running into Greater London, but not administered as part of it. The counties bordering, London, Kent, Surrey, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex all have built-up developments that directly run into the London metropolitan area, but the belt includes areas further away. As of the 2001 census, the London Metropolitan Area, which is the significant part of the commuter belt, was deemed to have a population of 13,945,000, making it 16th largest in the world.The boundaries are not fixed and tend to rise as travel speeds increase, and could currently be considered to stretch as far as Reading, Guildford, and Milton Keynes, but is generally considered to include
- Addlestone , Amersham, Ashstead , Aylesbury
- Banstead , Basildon, BeaconsfieldThis page is about Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire, England. For other uses of the name see Beaconsfield (disambiguation Beaconsfield is a market town in Buckinghamshire, England, about 30 miles NW of London. The town sits in the highly attractive Chilter, Berkhamstead, BillericayBillericay is a town in the Essex district of Basildon in England. Its name is pronounced 'bill-uh-ricky' (in SAMPA, /bIl@"rIki:/). It has a population of 40,000 and is part of the London commuter belt. The local railway station is Billericay railway stat, BorehamwoodBorehamwood (or more properly Elstree and Borehamwood) is a town in southern Hertfordshire, just outside London, and part of the London commuter belt. It is part of the borough of Hertsmere. It has a local council, Elstree and Borehamwood Town Council., Brentwood, England, BurnhamBurnham is a town in south Buckinghamshire, England. It is adjacent to the River Thames, and sits on the border with Berkshire, between the towns of Maidenhead and Slough. The town name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'homestead on a stream'. It was f, Byfleet
- Caterham , CheshuntCheshunt is a dormitory town in the county of Hertfordshire in south-east England, with a population of around 70,000. It is just north of Enfield, a district of Greater London. Cheshunt is famous in several ways. The town's Bury Green neighbourhood was o, ChertseyChertsey is a town is Surrey, United Kingdom, on the River Thames. It can be accessed via road from junction 11 of the M25 London orbital motorway. Chertsey it is a town of historical importance, being home to Chertsey Abbey, one of the largest Abbeys in, Chesham, Chigwell, Chorleywood, Cobham, Crawley
- Dartford, Dorking
- East Grinstead, Egham, Epping, Epsom
- Farnborough, Fleet
- Gerrards Cross, Gravesend, Grays
- Harlow, Harpenden, Hatfield, Haywards Heath, Hemel Hempstead, Hextable , High Wycombe, Horley , Horsham
- Leatherhead, Loughton
- Medway, Maidstone
- Northfleet
- Ongar, Oxshott
- Potters Bar
- Radlett, Rayleigh, Redhill, Reigate, Rickmansworth, Rochester
- Sevenoaks, Slough, South Oxhey , Southend-on-Sea, St Albans, Staines, Swanley
- Tadworth, Theydon Bois , Thurrock, Tilbury, Tonbridge, Tring, Tunbridge Wells
- Waltham Abbey, Waltham Cross , Walton-on-Thames, Warlingham, Warlington , Watford, Welwyn Garden City, Weybridge, Windsor, Woking
Much of the undeveloped part of this area lies within a designated Metropolitan Green Belt (UK) so further significant urban development is generally resisted by District Councils backed by the Planning Inspectorate. It was expected that had this policy not been adopted during the 1940s and 1950s the area now perceived as the commuter belt would have been fully urbanized by about 1980, and the administrative boundaries of Greater London might well have been more extensive. The approval, in principle, of a second runway at Stansted Airport and the introduction of domestic train services along the international railway being built between Stratford (Newham) and Ashford (Kent) can be confidently expected to pull the area's limits outwards in north easterly and south easterly directions (respectively) bringing greater symmetry to the commuter belt as seen from above.
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