Define Central London?

Define Central London?

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Budflicker

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3,799 posts

183 months

Wednesday 11th September 2019
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JIMMYJ4ZZ said:
Although I am still a proponent of the Zone 1/circle line + bit of the southbank hybrid approach, you could use an inner london boroughs versus outer approach per this link:

https://www.londoncouncils.gov.uk/node/1938

Would make it clear for customers.
Bingo, that seems perfect, just a slight change of wording on the invoice to inner London as opposed to central London and all sorted.

Thank you Pistonheads...beer

Budflicker

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183 months

Wednesday 11th September 2019
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67Dino said:
A narrower (and perhaps easier) alternative would be just to say “inside the North Circ (A406) and South Circ (A205)”.
Or this which seems fair as well and also falls in line with the ULEZ proposals.

Blib

43,795 posts

196 months

Wednesday 11th September 2019
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Could anything south of the River really be classed as London at all?

scratchchin

Bussolini

11,574 posts

84 months

Wednesday 11th September 2019
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Budflicker said:
What area would you all define as being Central London?

Just inside of the CC zone, or spreading out a little further to say Hackney or Bow and Fulham and Hammersmith?

opinions please?
I would probably say Zone 1 and 2.

67Dino

3,581 posts

104 months

Wednesday 11th September 2019
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TwigtheWonderkid said:
67Dino said:
I’d say Central London was a radius of 6 miles from there, covering to Putney in the West, Canary Wharf in the East, Dulwich in the South and Finsbury Park in the North.
There's no way any of those places are Central London. Canary Wharf is in Docklands, that's not Central London. Dulwich...rofl

The world's gone mad!
Do see what you mean, but just think London’s grown enormously. When I lived in Putney 30 years ago it was considered practically a suburb. Now, you’d really struggle to call it an “outer” area of London. Whether it’s “central” (or indeed whether Canary Wharf or Dulwich are) is a fair challenge though.

768

13,601 posts

95 months

Wednesday 11th September 2019
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Inside the M25.

matrignano

4,345 posts

209 months

Wednesday 11th September 2019
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Budflicker said:
So you have context for my question, we work in a service/engineering role and charge a higher call out/service call rate for central London.

What i'm trying to get is what is acceptable as Central London in terms of charging for an engineer in a van to turn up and do repairs at a higher rate than in the suburbs.
Congestion Charge zone then, since it will cost you extra to service that area

PixelpeepS3

8,600 posts

141 months

Wednesday 11th September 2019
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anywhere you can hear the sounds of the bow bells. Innit bruv.

oh wait, wrong question.

i'd say anything with a C in the first part of the postcode ?

EC1 etc

T-195

2,671 posts

60 months

Wednesday 11th September 2019
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Bussolini said:
I would probably say Zone 1 and 2.
Yes, if you want to keep it simple.

matrignano

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209 months

Wednesday 11th September 2019
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PixelpeepS3 said:
anywhere you can hear the sounds of the bow bells. Innit bruv.

oh wait, wrong question.

i'd say anything with a C in the first part of the postcode ?

EC1 etc
That doesn't cover the West End/ W1 postcodes

Budflicker

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183 months

Wednesday 11th September 2019
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matrignano said:
Congestion Charge zone then, since it will cost you extra to service that area
Costs of working in town are not simply Congestion Charge though, traffic, parking or lack thereof and the time it takes to move around up there mean less jobs can be done in the same time frame as in the suburbs.

I'm thinking anywhere inside the proposed ULEZ inside the north and south circular roads would seem to be an easy option, the zone 1 and 2 makes sense geography wise but we are not getting a train so this is less relevant to us if explaining areas to our clients.



colin_p

4,503 posts

211 months

Wednesday 11th September 2019
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I'd define it as a giant festering boil that needs a bread poultice to draw out the poison, like ants on blu-tack and a magnifying glass death by the sun. Lovely architecture though.

Puggit

48,355 posts

247 months

Wednesday 11th September 2019
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Condi said:
To people from the South East, here is the UK....




Ummmm........
Oxford isn't in the SE - it's the South Midlands

(hello from south of the M4)

TwigtheWonderkid

43,248 posts

149 months

Wednesday 11th September 2019
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PixelpeepS3 said:
i'd say anything with a C in the first part of the postcode ?
So that rules out Soho and Mayfair!

Dog Star

16,079 posts

167 months

Wednesday 11th September 2019
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Puggit said:
Oxford isn't in the SE - it's the South Midlands

(hello from south of the M4)
Oxford is part of That London.

TwigtheWonderkid

43,248 posts

149 months

Wednesday 11th September 2019
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67Dino said:
Do see what you mean, but just think London’s grown enormously. When I lived in Putney 30 years ago it was considered practically a suburb.
Go back 900 years, London was the area around Tower Hill, Westminster was a suburb, Mayfair was the outskirts and Kensington was the countryside.

bobtail4x4

3,701 posts

108 months

Wednesday 11th September 2019
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give Corbin 10 years he will get there.

Deesee

8,331 posts

82 months

Wednesday 11th September 2019
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bobtail4x4 said:
give Corbin 10 years he will get there.
thumbup

Marcellus

7,111 posts

218 months

Wednesday 11th September 2019
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Mobile Chicane said:
We are in a similar business and define anything with a 'London' Postcode: W, NW, N, SW, E, SE etc as 'Central'.

Makes it easier when territory planning as you have a clear criterion for allocation, rather than having to work back from a map.
For central London you need to be more specific, we used to use; W1, WC1 and SW1 for central London which was basically north of the river from Waterloo bridge to Lambeth bridge and then up to Marylebone Road.

Thankyou4calling

10,595 posts

172 months

Wednesday 11th September 2019
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Doesn’t Brighton call itself London on sea?

That should be included I feel.