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29 Although the variations in appearance of neighbourhood within the two Labour-controlled Inner London boroughs studied are relatively subtle in nature, and the forces which Representation and Urban Community produce this variation are not always publicly acknowledged, no such subtlety is needed to discover the variation between these two boroughs together on the one hand, and the suburban Borough of Bromley on the other. Bromley, as I indicated above, is a very varied borough which for most purposes is not a collective community at all.

The members of both the Maud and Redcliffe-Maud Commissions saw a tension between councillors who were able to reflect community views and those who might be most effective at directing the technical work of the council. is study that some councillors, particularly the "ideology of localism" councillors, claim the ability to do both tasks effectively. But despite some differences in emphases between the Maud and Redcliffe-Maud Commission reports, the two together stand in striking contrast to the earlier Herbert Commission in the nature of their concerns about representation.

Thus Tower Hamlets has been more successful than Bromley in maintaining its local "population policy" over time, since national governments in Britain have, for decades, encouraged the construction of public housing in the Outer London area, while no policy of active encouragement of private housing in working-class areas has been pursued. Similarly, national policy has been of considerable importance in structuring the population composition of the unredeveloped "lodging-house areas" in western Tower Hamlets and North Islington.

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