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Pettits, Havering Park, Romford Town and Brooklands will be absorbed into new wards.
Romford Town, which has three Conservative councillors, will be split into two wards – St Alban’s and St Edward’s – with five combined seats.
The current Romford Town ward (left in blue) will be split next year into two wards - St Edward s and St Alban s (right in red).
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South Hornchurch, which has one Conservative councillor and two independents, will be split into two wards – South Hornchurch and Beam Park – with two seats each.
Hacton, whose three seats are all held by opposition members, will go down to two.
“Raising it to that extent makes it more difficult for people who are on minimum wage to get considered.
“If people are earning £50,000 a year, I’m sure they can actually afford to go into private accommodation.”
The council’s director of housing services, Patrick Odling-Smee, said the council needed to ensure there were people on the list who could afford more expensive, but still technically “affordable”, homes in the borough.
He said: “One of the issues we have at the minute is that some of the properties that we are letting are properties that have “affordable rent”, which can be up to 80 per cent of market rent.
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