Editing Feltham (section)

==Governance==
[[File:Feltham Magistrates' Court - geograph.org.uk - 1161244.jpg|thumb|left|Feltham Magistrates' Court]]

There is no specific [[town council]] for Feltham; instead a Bedfont, Feltham, Hanworth area forum of councillors considers issues specific to the area on the [[London Borough of Hounslow]]'s council.<ref name=future>[http://www.hounslow.gov.uk/news_mod_home/news_mod_year/news_mod_month/news_mod_show?year1=2006&month1=7&NewsID=21550 "New future for Feltham – About Feltham"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071224083353/http://www.hounslow.gov.uk/news_mod_home/news_mod_year/news_mod_month/news_mod_show?year1=2006&month1=7&NewsID=21550 |date=24 December 2007 }} Hounslow London Borough Council. 14 July 2006.</ref><ref>Vision of Britain – [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10026520&c_id=10001043 Hounslow UD] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930235757/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10026520&c_id=10001043 |date=30 September 2007 }}</ref>

The town forms part of [[Feltham and Heston (UK Parliament constituency)|Feltham and Heston]] parliamentary constituency (and the [[South West (London Assembly constituency)|South West]] [[London Assembly]] constituency which elects the geographic element of members who advise, steer, assist and scrutinise the [[Mayor of London]] who is directly responsible for only certain designated policy areas such as Transport for London).<ref>Hounslow London Borough Council – [http://www.hounslow.gov.uk/index/council_and_democracy/democracy_and_elections/gla_member.htm GLA Member] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070417155544/http://www.hounslow.gov.uk/index/council_and_democracy/democracy_and_elections/gla_member.htm |date=17 April 2007 }}</ref> There are two local government wards falling entirely within Feltham – Feltham North and Feltham West – though locals often consider sections of the Hanworth Park and Bedfont wards as forming part of Feltham.<ref>Hounslow London Borough Council – [https://archive.today/20110814121544/http://213.210.33.3/mgMemberIndex.asp?FN=WARD&J=1 Your Councillors by Ward]</ref> This area was represented in Parliament from 1992 to 2011 by [[Alan Keen]] ([[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]). After his death, Labour candidate [[Seema Malhotra]] won the by-election.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2011/dec/08/feltham-heston-byelection-labour-heathrow The Guardian ''Feltham and Heston byelection – it's Labour's to lose Labour has a reported 22-point lead in the west London seat dominated by ups and down''] ''[[The Guardian]]'' 8 December 2011</ref>

Feltham Magistrates' Court was built in 1902 as a town hall but converted to a magistrates' court in 1906.<ref>{{cite PastScape |mnumber=1074157 |mname=FELTHAM MAGISTRATES COURT |access-date=27 April 2014}}</ref> The court closed in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2018-05-09/142383|title=Written questions and answers - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament|website=questions-statements.parliament.uk}}</ref>

[[File:Recovery Stores at a Raoc Depot, Feltham Art.IWMARTLD5402.jpg|thumb|''Recovery Stores at a RAOC Depot, Feltham'' by [[Karl Hagedorn (1889–1969)|Karl Hagedorn]], 1945]]
Immediately adjacent to the town centre is [[MoD Feltham]], a secure {{convert|30|acre|adj=on}} site belonging to the [[Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Defence]].<ref name="PlanBrief2017">{{cite web |title=Planning Brief for the Feltham Ministry of Defence Site |url=https://democraticservices.hounslow.gov.uk/documents/s134793/REG521%20-%20Appendix%201%20-%20planning%20brief%20for%20MOD%20Feltham%20SMD.pdf |publisher=London Borough of Hounslow |access-date=4 August 2019}}</ref>