Expertise topics Geographical

This'll need to break up into sectors for London, Birmingham and Manc I think, any others need a special mention?

London

Hackney

John, Gav, Catch

Deptford

Walthamstow

Catch

Lewisham

etc

Manchester

Birmingham

hackney/walthamstow

I'd suggest Liverpool, Sheffield, Leeds, and Tyneside should all be separate from the counties that hosted them 40 years ago, as should Bristol for similar reasons. I'd say locals in those cities/conurbations are best placed to say whether they should be split further. Also, Yorkshire is too big and diverse a place to be meaningfully covered as one area - it should at least be split into N, S, W and E/Humberside.

WIth London I'd say start with 32 boroughs and merge/split as appropriate. With a couple of exceptions most are mergers of 2 or 3 smaller boroughs in the 60s, but I'm not sure how meaningful it is to split Lewisham and Deptford, for example.

List of London Boroughs

Barking and Dagenham

Barnet (includes Cricklewood, Finchley, Edgeware, Mill HIll, Colindale, Golders Green and Hendon)

Bexley (includes Erith, Sidcup, Bexleyheath, Welling, Crayford, Belvedere, part of Thamesmead)

Brent (includes Wembley, Harlesden, part of Kilburn, Willesden, Neasden)

Bromley (also includes Penge, Anerley, Orpington, Chislehurst, Beckenham)

Camden (includes Bloomsbury, Hampstead, Highgate, Kentish TOwn, Holborn, Kings X and part of Kilburn)

City of London

Croydon (also includes Addington, Addiscombe, Purley, Coulsdon, Norbury, Shirley, Thornton Heath and Upper Norwood)

Ealing (also includes Acton, Greenford, Perivale, Southall, Hanwell)

Enfield (also includes Southgate, Edmonton and Palmers Green)

Greenwich (also includes part of Deptford, part of Thamesmead, Eltham, Woolwich, Plumstead, Abbey Wood)

Hackney (inlcudes Clapton, Stoke Newington, SHoreditch and Stamford Hill)

Hammersmith & Fulham (also includes Shepherds Bush)

Haringey (also includes Tottenham, Crouch End, Hornsey, Finsbury Park, part of Highgate and Wood Green)

Harrow (also includes Pinner, Rayners Lane, Stanmore)

Havering (Romford, Havering, Upminster)

Hillingdon (includes Heathrow, Harmondsworth, Hayes (middlesex), Northwood, Ruislip,Uxbridge,Yeading)

Hounslow (includes Brentford, Chiswick, Feltham, Gunnersbury, Isleworth, Osterley)

Islington (includes Highbury, Finsbury, Clerkenwell, Holloway, part of Kings Cross)

Kensington and Chelsea (includes Earls Court, Notting Hill)

Kingston upon Thames (also includes New Malden, Surbiton)

Lambeth (includes Brixton, Kennington, Streatham, Vauxhall, Stockwell, Tulse Hill, Clapham, Norwood)

Lewisham (includes most of Deptford, New Cross, Brockley, Catford, Lee, Downham, Sydenham, Forest Hill)

Merton (inlcudes Mitcham, Morden, Wimbledon

Newham (inlcudes Manor Park, Startford, West and East Ham, Forest Gate,

Canning Town, Beckton, Silvertown, North Woolwich)

Redbridge (includes Ilford, Barkingside, Gants Hill, hailault, Woodford, Wanstead)

Richmond upon Thames (inlcludes Barnes, East Sheen, Hampton, kew, Mortlake, Teddington, Twickenham)

Southwark (includes Peckham, Dulwich, Walworth, Bermondsey, Camberwll, Rotherhithe)

Sutton (inlcudes Beddington, Carshalton, Cheam)

Tower Hamlets (includes Stepney, Bow, Poplar, Isle of Dogs, Wapping, Whitechapel, Bethnal Green)

Waltham Forest (Walthamstow, Chingford, Leyton,Leytonstone)

Wandsworth (includes Putney, Tooting, Battersea, Balham, Roehampton)

Westminster (includes Knightsbridge, Maida Vale, Bayswater, Marylebone Paddington and Pimlico)