Editing London Borough of Havering (section)

===Settlement===
[[London Underground]] and fast [[National Rail|rail services]] to [[central London]] resulted in considerable residential land use mixed with designated parklands and farmland under the planning policy of the predecessor local authorities and current authority during the 20th century and into the early 21st century.

The development of the borough came in two distinct phases. The first [[middle class]] suburban developments were built in the late Victorian and Edwardian period. The garden suburbs of Upminster, Emerson Park and Gidea Park (also known as Romford Garden Suburb) were spurred on by the building of the railway lines through Havering from Liverpool Street and Fenchurch Street in the late 19th century.

In the 1930s the District Line was electrified and extended to Upminster with new stations at [[Elm Park tube station|Elm Park]] and [[Upminster Bridge tube station|Upminster Bridge]]. Also at this time new industries near the area such as the [[Ford Motor Company]] plant at [[Dagenham]] caused a new wave of mostly [[working class]] developments along the route of the new Underground line. In addition to this, to the north of the borough, the large housing estates of [[Harold Hill]] and [[Collier Row]] were constructed to deal with the chronic housing shortages and early [[Slum clearance in the United Kingdom|slum clearance]] programmes in central London.