Is Brent Dealing Adequately With Its Environmental Problems?

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Brent is a Subject to a lot of environmental problems, but is the government actually doing anything to solve these problems?

Is Brent Dealing Adequately With Its Environmental Problems?

Brent is located in London, which is found in the South East Part Of England (Map 1)

London is made up of many boroughs; Brent (Map 2) is in the North West part of London. Brent is divided into three parliamentary constituencies (Map 3):

Brent East

Brent North

Brent South

There are 31 wards in Brent, I live in the St Raphael’s Ward in Brent South.

        Brent was established in 1965 by the re-organisation of London’s Government. The Borough’s Wembley and Willesden were joined together and named after the river that had previously separated them ‘The River Brent.’ Elections were held every 4 years to elect 66 local Councillors to govern Brent.

Evidence shows that Brent was severely damaged in the Second World War. 2000 homes were destroyed and big efforts were produced to rebuild and repair these buildings. Wembley concentrated more on new council estates and by the 1960s/70s new housing estates replaced old homes. A vast number of factories were closed down to be replaced by office blocks. Brent was well on its way to improvement.

        By 1965 Brent was faced with the problems that were handed down from previous predecessors. These included Housing, Education, Social Services, Refuse Collection and Road Maintenance. But this didn’t stop Brent from getting famous for its Multi-Ethnic and Multi-Cultural diversities. Caribbean and Asian Families, Irish Labourers and Jewish Refugees settled in the now known “Most Multi-Racial District in the Country”

        Many contrast’s exist in Brent were Urban and Rural life meet. Areas such as Harlesden and Stonebridge in the South of Brent suffer high levels of social deprivation, including high un-employment rates and over-crowding but in the North of Brent, tree-lined streets and large recreational areas can be found. North-Brent also contains North West London’s two most attractive recreational areas’, the ‘Welsh Harp Reservoir’ and the ‘Fryent County Park’

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An Environment is the place and surroundings of where Animals, People, and Plants live. Brent is an Environment for people. Our Habitats concern buildings and houses. Brent is not a natural landscape, it is man made and maintained. But there are still a lot of Environmental problems in Brent.

Visual Pollution: Visual Pollution occurs quite frequently in Brent. Vandalism and Graffiti are some common forms, but visual pollution is also caused from the lack of maintenance of buildings. This is a serious problem because it gives Brent a less appealing image.

Waste: Waste is another serious problem, ...

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