There are eighteen boroughs and districts that have a border with Greater London and in some cases form part of the urban sprawl. These are (listed in order as they surround London clockwise from the Thames at Dartford): South East Kent - Dartford, Sevenoaks Surrey - Tandridge, Reigate and Banstead, Epsom and Ewell, Mole Valley, Elmbridge, Spelthorne Berkshire - Windsor and Maidenhead, Slough Buckinghamshire - South Bucks East Hertfordshire - Three Rivers, Hertsmere, Welwyn Hatfield, BroxbourneSee also:

London commuter belt, London commuter belt - Scale, London commuter belt - Environs of Greater London, London commuter belt - ONS Greater London Urban Area, London commuter belt - Further out, London commuter belt - Towns, London commuter belt - Green Belt, London commuter belt - Future

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Much of the undeveloped part of this area lies within a designated Metropolitan Green Belt so further significant urban development is generally resisted by District Councils backed by the Planning Inspectorate. It was expected that had this policy not been adopted during the 1940s and 1950s the area now perceived as the commuter belt would have been fully urbanized by about 1980, and the administrative boundaries of Greater London might well have been more extensive. The Green Belt currently covers nearly all of Surrey, eastern Berkshire, southern Buckinghamshire, southern and mid Hertfordshire, souther ...

See also:

London commuter belt, London commuter belt - Scale, London commuter belt - Environs of Greater London, London commuter belt - ONS Greater London Urban Area, London commuter belt - Further out, London commuter belt - Towns, London commuter belt - Green Belt, London commuter belt - Future

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