About The Society

Planting Tree for Queen's 90th birthday

We welcome as members individuals and organisations who care for Hammersmith

As a Member, you will receive at least two printed newsletters and regular email updates each year, outlining our activities, and giving you the opportunity to participate in our campaigns. Members are always encouraged to take an active part in the work done by the committee – come along and see if you can help. 

The membership year runs from 1st January, and only costs £6 for individuals £8 for couples or families, and £15 for organisations. Additional voluntary donations are always welcome.

Join Here

 

 

Join Us

Featured Award Winners

The Society

We are Hammersmith’s only borough-wide dedicated amenity society. Our membership includes both individuals and affiliated local groups interested in the built and natural environment in Hammersmith. As such, we represent over 3000 members, and campaign and work with public, local and national authorities for improvements to the townscape. Our area of interest is the Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith at the time the society was created in 1962 (approximately the upper 8 wards of the current London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham).

Our main areas of activity are:

  • Planning
  • The Environment
  • Community participation and consultation
  • Transport
  • Homes
  • Open Spaces
  • Employment opportunities
  • And many more…

We are actively interested on behalf of all Hammersmith residents and workers in such matters as proposals for new development schemes, the preservation of beautiful buildings and their surroundings, parks and trees, the use of open spaces, our stretch of the Thames, the problems of road traffic and parking, noise and pollution, etc.

We want to make Hammersmith a safer, more convenient and better place in which to live, work and enjoy ourselves; and to influence the Local Authority, the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, to accept greater and genuine public participation.  One of the ways we encourage this is by making annual Awards to the best and worst schemes, which we showcase on our website and on social media.

The Hammersmith Society is  a member of the London Forum of Civic and Amenity Societies and a founder member of the West London River Group. 

We work closely with the Hammersmith & Fulham Historic Buildings Group and other affiliated groups

 

Recent News

Optionally select a single news topic

All topics
Affiliations
Avonmore/Brook Green/Olympia
Capability Brown
Conservation
Council
Cycling
Environment/Streetscape
Government
Hammersmith Bridge
Local Plan
London Plan
Major Developments
Neighbourhood planning
OPDC
Parks/Open Spaces
Ravenscourt
Riverside
Smaller Developments
Society/Awards
Town Hall
Transport/TfL
Triangle Site

Enables the separator bar (with css)

News Topics

ACV Affiliations Airports Air Quality Arts/Culture Avonmore/Brook Green/Olympia Broadway Capability Brown Conservation Council Counters Creek/Tideway Tunnel Crime Cycling Environment/Streetscape Flyunder Government Hammersmith Bridge Local Plan London Plan Major Developments Neighbourhood planning OPDC Parks/Open Spaces Ravenscourt Riverside Shepherd's Bush Smaller Developments Society/Awards Town Centre Masterplan Town Hall Transport/TfL Triangle Site White City

Our Diary

  • Committee meeting

    Mon 22nd Feb | 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
    Zoom (Map)

  • Committee meeting

    Mon 12th Apr | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

  • Committee meeting

    Mon 17th May | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Our History

The Capability Brown Statue
Capability Brown Statue unveiling
Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, described by Horace Walpole as ‘Lady Nature’s Second Husband,’ created landscapes on an immense scale that have endured for over 250 years ...
Read more...
The Hammersmith Study Group 1969-70
Exhibition: Hammersmith Flyover
Our president Hans Haenlein remembers the Hammersmith Study Group... ...which I set up in 1969 with my students from the Polytechnic of Central London (now ...
Read more...
Notable Achievements
Environment Award
1960s
  • The Society is set up in response to the damage done to Hammersmith by the widening of the A4
  • Stops a six-lane bridge ...
    Read more...
50 Years of the Hammersmith Society: An Edited Review
Hamsoc AGM 2012
Hans Haenlein remembers some early successes of the 1960s and 1970s The Society’s job is to be actively interested on behalf of all Hammersmith residents ...
Read more...
50 Special Places: Images of Hammersmith
Houseboats, Lower Mall
A Pictorial Record To co-incide with its 50th anniversary in 2012, the Hammersmith Society ran a photo project in conjunction with the Hammersmith & Shepherds ...
Read more...