Editing Feltham (section)

===Recent developments===
[[File:Feltham, The Centre 1.jpg|thumb|right|The centre, Feltham]]
Feltham's town centre developed in the period 1860–2010 when the focus of the village moved north from by St Dunstan's Church after the coming of the railway in 1848. For most of the twentieth century, it had a traditional-looking High Street, including more [[mock tudor]] shop fronts, and a large medieval [[manor house]] which was controversially demolished in the mid-1960s to make way for a car dealership and petrol station. This has since been demolished but replaced with a hardware, carpets and supermarket site ''Manor Park''.

Most of the original [[High Street]] shops were also demolished in the mid-1960s through to the early 1970s. Victorian and Edwardian tall-storey terraced, semi-detached and detached homes are found on Hanworth Road and adjoining roads, and in the small [[conservation area]] at Feltham Pond on the High Street. Many old cottages and workman's terraces were demolished alongside the railway line to make way for [[brutalism|brutalist]] [[high rise]] blocks of housing, of originally purely [[social housing]] to house the homeless and overcrowded people in the borough, such as Belvedere House, Hunter House and Home Court, demolished in the 2000s and replaced with mixed-ownership apartments in a more ornate style in a [[nucleated village|cluster]], incorporating designer balconies and architectural demonstrations of free-form structure such as propped overhangs and an unobtrusive at street-level, multi-faceted [[floor plan]].{{cn|date=May 2024}}

The current shopping hub,<ref name=future/> The centre, Feltham (also known as the Longford Centre, if only by the original developers and some retail tenants), opened in 2006. It retained and refurbished many of the shop units built in the 1960s to replace the demolished buildings, along the High Street frontage, but replaced most of the others with new, larger units. Also added as part of the re-development was a Travelodge hotel, 800 homes, a new and larger library, and a medical centre. The anchor (and largest) store in the centre is an [[Asda]] hypermarket, coupled with fashion chains, small restaurants, a [[public house]] and cafés. Near to the retail park mentioned is a [[Tesco]] superstore and numerous grocery outlets are dotted along the area's High Street. Added to this are regular local trades/services in small clusters in the main named neighbourhoods of North Feltham and Lower Feltham.<ref name=future/> Prior to this large-scale redevelopment, the rock band Oasis filmed the video for their song [[Stand by Me (Oasis song)|''Stand by Me'']] in The Centre in 1997. Rap group [[So Solid Crew]] also filmed the music video for their 2003 single, ''Broke Silence'', on Highfield Estate (nearby The {{not a typo|Centre}}), before its eventual regeneration.{{cn|date=November 2023}}

In retail, the closest destination with more than 100 outlets is [[Hounslow]], centred less than {{convert|2|mi}} to the north-east, followed by [[Kingston upon Thames|Kingston]] and [[Staines upon Thames|Staines]]. Late 2017 saw the approval of the "Feltham Masterplan" by Hounslow council which will see the transformation of Feltham for the next 15 years.{{cn|date=June 2024}}

In June 2024 a [[Surrey Police]] officer, who repeatedly drove his police car into a 10-month-old breeding [[heifer (cow)|heifer]], called Beau Lucy, in Raleigh Road, was removed from frontline duties.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Vernon |first=Hayden |date=2024-06-16 |title=Surrey police officer who rammed cow removed from frontline duties |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jun/16/surrey-police-officer-who-rammed-cow-should-be-fired-says-owners-partner |access-date=2024-06-28 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>