Editing London Borough of Havering (section)

==Districts==
[[File:Queens theatre hornchurch.jpg|thumb|[[Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch]]]]
{{See also|List of districts in Havering}}

This pattern of the 'garden suburb' with inter- and post-war private housing developments occurred widely across the borough, with small estates of [[social housing]] representing a low percentage of housing in any single council ward; six of the 30 [[Wards of the United Kingdom|electoral wards]] with fewer than 2% social housing are in the borough: Hylands, Mawneys, Pettits, Hacton and the two wards forming [[Upminster]], Cranham and Upminster Ward.<ref name=ons>{{cite web|url=http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk|title=Key Statistics: Population; Quick Statistics: Economic indicators|publisher=[[United Kingdom Census 2011|2011]] and [[United Kingdom Census 2001|2001 censuses]]|access-date=2015-02-27}}</ref> Plans to extend existing developments in much of the borough are blocked as open land is protected as part of the [[Metropolitan Green Belt]]. In contrast, the southern part of Havering adjacent to the Thames is within the [[London Riverside]] section of the [[Thames Gateway]] redevelopment area. New open spaces and large scale house building to provide an entirely new residential community is planned.

The most built-up areas are the traditional garden suburb districts of [[Hornchurch]], [[Emerson Park]], [[Gidea Park]], [[Harold Wood]], [[Romford]] and [[Upminster]]. These places have developed over the last hundred years to form a large area of continuous [[urban sprawl]] with indistinct boundaries.

A 2017 study found that, when comparing low-end rent to low-end earnings, private rented housing in Havering is the most affordable of any London borough.<ref>{{cite web |title=London's Poverty Profile |url=https://www.trustforlondon.org.uk/data/rents-and-affordability/ |website=Trust for London |access-date=25 July 2018}}</ref>

Named neighbourhoods are the developments of [[Ardleigh Green]], [[Chase Cross]], [[Collier Row]], [[Elm Park]], [[Harold Hill]], [[Rainham, London|Rainham]]. The borough's [[exurb]]s with [[buffer zone|green buffers]] of farmland or parkland are:

*[[Havering-atte-Bower]]
*[[North Ockendon]]
*[[Noak Hill]]
*[[Wennington, London|Wennington]]