Boroughs | Harrow

• Location – Harrow & Wealdstone – direct 11 minute fast train to London’s Euston station and 5 miles south of Watford
• Made up of Harrow on the Hill, Harrow Weald, Headstone, North Harrow, Pinner, Kenton, Rayners Lane, South Harrow, Wealdstone and West Harrow.
• Is in Travelcard Zone 5 with direct Underground and rail links from Harrow-on-the-Hill  to the West End (Oxford Circus), the City, Uxbridge, and through the Chiltern Hills to Aylesbury.
• Direct trains from Harrow & Wealdstone to the West End, Croydon, Gatwick Airport, Watford, Hemel Hempstead and beyond towards Brighton and Birmingham.
• Home to the world renowned Harrow School
• Harrow has 52 primary schools and 26 secondary schools. Ofsted rate 23 as outstanding and 31 as good.
• Innovative business - with a large proportion of micro businesses

Other facts about Harrow:

• 36% of Harrow residents are working from home, according to the 2021 Census (Covid).
• Working age qualifications Level 3 and above; Harrow 71.5%, London 71.4% (Dec 21 ONS)
• Six of our town centres have a vacancy rate below 5% (Kenton (part), Kingsbury (part), Rayners Lane, Belmont, Harrow Weald and Queensbury.
• Three of our town centres have a zero vacancy rate: Edgware (part), South Harrow and Sudbury Hill.
• Harrow Metropolitan Town Centre had 31 vacant units in July 2023 — 8.84%, well under the Greater London vacancy average of 10.8%
• We are an enterprising borough — our self-employment is higher than London and Britain.
• Professional, scientific & technical businesses — we have the highest concentration of these innovative businesses within Harrow.
• Within outer London and at the national scale — construction sector is the second most prevalent in terms of numbers of businesses.

Emma Talbot, Director of Regeneration and Sustainable Development

emma.talbot@harrow.gov.uk

““The Harrow Strategic Development Partnership, with our partner Wates Residential, gives us a unique and once in a lifetime opportunity to make a real and lasting difference to the lives of our residents and boost the local economy. We’re delighted to work with those who have already invested in Harrow. To those looking who are looking for exciting new opportunities please come and work with us to help us deliver a Harrow that all of our residents and businesses can be proud of.””

• Putting people first: we want to achieve this through a focus on business growth and job creation, and skills and employment, helping our residents benefit from the jobs created. This will be delivered through accelerating our growth sectors.
• The Knowledge Economy: Harrow is nationally in the top 10 per cent UK competitiveness, with 60 per cent of Harrow jobs in this sector.
• The Construction and Green Economy: utilising our existing and future regeneration programmes to stimulate new homes, jobs and deliver a low carbon economy. Focus on Local Town Centres: Harrow metropolitan town centres and our 9 district centres which are our commercial, community and employment hubs.
• Local Plan Review and Call for Sites: the Local Plan review includes responding to the local housing, employment, town centre and infrastructure challenges. Call for sites will encourage landowners to come forward with sites they are interested in developing.