Define Central London?

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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?

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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.

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TwigtheWonderkid said:

In reality, there's no way Wimbledon SW19 is Central London. Or Kingsbury NW9, or Hanwell W7. Or Catford SE6.

For me, inside the circle line, plus the areas under the circle line on the southbank of the river, like Waterloo and London Bridge.

And this is where it gets tricky, E11 Wanstead clearly not Central London but E2 Bethnal Green while not in the circle line it's pretty central.

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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...

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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.

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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.