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| Harlow District | |
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Shown within Essex | |
| Geography | |
| Status: | District |
| Admin. County: | Essex |
| Area: - Total | Ranked 337th 30.54 km² |
| Region: | East of England |
| Admin. HQ: | Harlow |
| ONS code: | 22UJ |
| Demographics | |
| Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density | Ranked 296th 78,538 2,572 / km² |
| Ethnicity: | 94.9% White 1.6% S.Asian |
| Politics | |
Harlow District Council http://www.harlow.gov.uk/ | |
| Leadership: | Alternative - Sec.31 |
| Control: | |
| MP: | Bill Rammell |
Harlow is a local govenment district and new town in Essex, United Kingdom. It was developed around the old villages of Harlow, Great Parndon, Latton, Little Parndon and Netteswell from a masterplan drawn up in 1947 by Sir Frederick Gibberd.
It is renowned for having Britain's first pedestrian precinct, in the town centre and Britain's first tower block, The Lawn, constructed in 1951, now a Grade I listed building. Many of the original new town buildings have now been removed due to "concrete cancer".
Harlow has a population of 80,000, although this may increase significantly if plans to expand into the green belt go ahead. Harlow Town FC play in the Isthmian League First Division. There are plans to redevelop the town's sporting facilities.
Its MP is Bill Rammell (Labour).
| Districts of England - East of England | |
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Babergh | Basildon | Bedford | Braintree | Breckland | Brentwood | Broadland | Broxbourne | Cambridge | Castle Point | Chelmsford | Colchester | Dacorum | East Cambridgeshire | East Hertfordshire | Epping Forest | Fenland | Forest Heath | Great Yarmouth | Harlow | Hertsmere | Huntingdonshire | Ipswich | King's Lynn and West Norfolk | Luton | Maldon | Mid Bedfordshire | Mid Suffolk | North Hertfordshire | North Norfolk | Norwich | Peterborough | Rochford | St Albans | St Edmundsbury | South Bedfordshire | South Cambridgeshire | Southend-on-Sea | South Norfolk | Stevenage | Suffolk Coastal | Tendring | Three Rivers | Thurrock | Uttlesford | Watford | Waveney | Welwyn Hatfield | |
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Administrative counties with multiple districts: Bedfordshire - Cambridgeshire - Essex - Hertfordshire - Norfolk - Suffolk |
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