Editing Chiswick (section)

== Governance ==

[[File:Chiswick Town Hall north and west facing 515c.jpg|thumb|left|[[Chiswick Town Hall]], designed by A. Ramsden, 1901<ref>{{cite book |last=Draper |first=Warwick |title=Chiswick |publisher=Anne Bingley and Hounslow Leisure Services |year=1990 |pages=173, 176}}</ref>]]

Chiswick St Nicholas was an ancient, and later civil, parish in the [[Ossulstone]] hundred of [[Middlesex]].<ref name="vision_parish_chiswick">{{cite vob |name=Chiswick parish |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10021364&c_id=10001043 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121224055939/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10021364&c_id=10001043 |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 December 2012 |map=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/bound_map_page.jsp?first=true&u_id=10021364&c_id=10001043 |access-date=1 February 2008 }} </ref>  Until 1834 its [[vestry]] governed most parish affairs. After the [[Poor Law Amendment Act 1834|Poor Law Amendment Act (1834)]], local administration in Chiswick began to be devolved to authorities beyond the vestry.  Then, Chiswick poor relief was administered by the Brentford [[Poor law union|Poor Law Union]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Brentford/ |title=The Workhouse, the story of an institution. Brentford, Middlesex |last=Higginbotham |first=Peter |access-date=17 December 2016}}</ref> Briefly, from 1849 to 1855, responsibility for Chiswick drains and sewers passed to the [[Metropolitan Commission of Sewers]] under its 'Fulham and Hammersmith Sewer District.'<ref name=Logan>{{Cite thesis|url=http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/6442/#undefined |title=Improving Chiswick, 1858–1883 |last=Logan |first=Tracey |date=2016|website=SAS-Space |publisher=University of London School of Advanced Study |access-date=17 December 2016 |type=masters |ref=75}}</ref>  From 1858, under the Chiswick Improvement Act of that year,<ref name=Logan /> responsibility for drains and sewers, paving and lighting was vested in an elected board of eighteen [[Improvement commissioners|Improvement Commissioners]].<ref name=Logan/> This operated as Chiswick's secular local authority for a quarter of a century until its replacement with a [[Local boards formed in England and Wales 1848–94|Local Board]] in 1883.<ref name=Logan />   In 1878 the parish gained a triangle of land in the east which had formed a detached part of [[Ealing]].<ref name=growth/> From 1894 to 1927 the parish formed the [[Chiswick Urban District]].<ref name=vision_chiswick>{{cite vob |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit_page.jsp?u_id=10025862 |name=Chiswick UD |map=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/bound_map_page.jsp;jsessionid=627B45DD1F799BEC5A05D735CDBF269F?first=true&u_id=10025862&c_id=10001043 |access-date=1 February 2008}}</ref><ref name=EB1911>{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Chiswick|volume=6|page=247}}</ref> In 1927 it was abolished and its former area was merged with that of [[Brentford Urban District]] to form [[Municipal Borough of Brentford and Chiswick|Brentford and Chiswick Urban District]].<ref name=vision_brentford_chiswick>{{cite vob |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10198355 |name=Brentford and Chiswick UD/MB |map=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/bound_map_page.jsp?first=true&u_id=10198355&c_id=10001043 |access-date=1 February 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120418104243/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10198355 |archive-date=18 April 2012  }} </ref> The amalgamated district became a municipal borough in 1932. The borough of Brentford and Chiswick was abolished in 1965, and its former area was transferred to [[Greater London]] to form part of the [[London Borough of Hounslow]].<ref name="lbhcreation">{{cite web |url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1963/33/contents |title=London Government Act 1963 |publisher=Legislation.co.uk |access-date=5 April 2020}}</ref> With these changes, [[Chiswick Town Hall]] is no longer the local government centre but remains an approved venue for marriage and civil partnership ceremonies.<ref name ="townhall">{{cite web |url=https://www.hounslow.gov.uk/info/20094/marriages_and_civil_partnerships/1334/approved_premises_-_licensed_venues_for_ceremonies |title=Approved premises and licensing venues for ceremonies |publisher=London Borough of Hounslow |access-date=31 August 2020}}</ref>
Chiswick forms part of the [[Brentford and Isleworth (UK Parliament constituency)|Brentford and Isleworth]] Parliament constituency, having been part of the [[Brentford and Chiswick (UK Parliament constituency)|Brentford and Chiswick]] constituency between 1918 and 1974.<ref name="1974constchanges">{{Cite web |url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1970/1674/contents/made/data.htm |title=The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 1970 |website=www.legislation.gov.uk |access-date=4 November 2019}}</ref> The [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) is [[Ruth Cadbury]] (Labour), elected at the [[2015 United Kingdom general election|May 2015 general election]] replacing [[Mary Macleod]] (Conservative). For elections to the [[London Assembly]] Chiswick is in the [[South West (London Assembly constituency)|South West constituency]], represented since 2000 by [[Tony Arbour]], of the Conservative Party. For elections to [[Hounslow London Borough Council]], Chiswick is represented by three [[electoral wards]]: Turnham Green, Chiswick Homefields and Chiswick Riverside. Each ward elects three councillors, who serve four-year terms. For 2010–14, all nine councillors were [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservatives]].<ref>{{cite web |access-date=7 May 2010 |publisher=[[London Borough of Hounslow]] |title=Chiswick Homefields election result 2010 |url=http://www.hounslow.gov.uk/index/council_and_democracy/democracy_and_elections/elections2010/council_elections2010/chiswickhomefields_election_result_2010.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100510014012/http://www.hounslow.gov.uk/index/council_and_democracy/democracy_and_elections/elections2010/council_elections2010/chiswickhomefields_election_result_2010.htm |archive-date=10 May 2010  }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |access-date=7 May 2010 |publisher=[[London Borough of Hounslow]] |title=Chiswick Riverside election result 2010 |url=http://www.hounslow.gov.uk/index/council_and_democracy/democracy_and_elections/elections2010/council_elections2010/chiswick_riverside_election_result_2010.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100510005601/http://www.hounslow.gov.uk/index/council_and_democracy/democracy_and_elections/elections2010/council_elections2010/chiswick_riverside_election_result_2010.htm |archive-date=10 May 2010  }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |access-date=7 May 2010 |publisher=[[London Borough of Hounslow]] |title=Turnham Green election result 2010 |url=http://www.hounslow.gov.uk/index/council_and_democracy/democracy_and_elections/elections2010/council_elections2010/turnham_green_election_result_2010.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100510005627/http://www.hounslow.gov.uk/index/council_and_democracy/democracy_and_elections/elections2010/council_elections2010/turnham_green_election_result_2010.htm |archive-date=10 May 2010  }}</ref> It was one of 35 major centres identified in the statutory planning document of Greater London, the [[London Plan]] of 2008.<ref name=london_plan_f08>{{cite web|url=http://www.london.gov.uk/thelondonplan/docs/londonplan08.pdf |author=[[Mayor of London]] |publisher=[[Greater London Authority]] |title=London Plan (Consolidated with Alterations since 2004) |date=February 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100602000714/http://www.london.gov.uk/thelondonplan/docs/londonplan08.pdf |archive-date=2 June 2010  }}</ref>