In March 2026 Hammersmith & Fulham Council approved TfL’s proposal for a new cycleway on Holland Park Roundabout, despite significant concerns about its impact on safety, congestion, journey times, and pollution. We last looked at this proposal in June 2025 – it remains unchanged.

The TfL proposal for a convoluted two-way cycle lane goes round the inner east and southern edge of the central island of the roundabout requiring cyclists to cross vehicle traffic in 3 different places which is far more likely to cause accidents than upgrading the existing cycle lanes into a two-way cycle lane round the perimeter/outer edge of the roundabout only crossing traffic at existing traffic lights.… Continue reading on our website »

Nomination for a Nancye Goulden Award, 2026.

The area outside Goldfinger’s Grade II* Greenside school has been transformed with a landscaping scheme funded by the Council’s Green Investment scheme.

The pupils at the school helped design the scheme which has a slightly raised curving path which they enjoy running along.

The planting scheme was by the Hammersmith Community Gardens Association (who won a Hammersmith Society award for the King Street rain gardens in 2025) in conjunction with the school pupils.

Nomination for an Environment Award, 2026.

Although we’ve heard a range of opinion, there’s a lot to like in the total refurbishment of Olympia, now complete and open, aside from the theatre, due in 2027. A mixture of well restored and cleaned existing exteriors of the exhibition halls, conversion of the car-park into a Hyatt Regency hotel and Wetherby Pembridge school, and new interior roof build for restaurants and offices, a substantial music venue, plus good planting.… Continue reading on our website »

Nomination for a Nancye Goulden Award, 2026.

We received several nominations for the Town Hall redevelopment, these are split – generally positive towards the opening up and refurbishment of the GII listed Town Hall itself and its new piazza, but rather less so of the RSHP-devised scheme around it.

This nomination is specifically for the landscaping by Gillespies in the piazza and around the residential blocks, which is sensitively realised, helping reveal the listed town hall as a building of presence and charisma. … Continue reading on our website »

Nomination for a Nancye Goulden Award, 2026.

We’re fascinated by this unusual new building, especially its odd shape, and zig-zag brickwork, directly in front of the Contract Chair Co in Glenthorne Road.

Nomination for a Wooden Spoon, 2026.

We received several nominations for the Town Hall redevelopment, these are split – generally positive towards the opening up and refurbishment of the GII listed Town Hall itself and its new piazza, but rather less so of the RSHP-designed scheme around it. There’s a separate Nancye Goulden nomination for the Piazza.

Nominating members reserved particular opprobrium for the unnecessary renaming of the Town Hall as ‘Civic Campus’, now officially ‘The Civic Campus, 1 Unity Square, London, W6 9JU’, lit up 24 x 7 in signage unseen in any planning CGI, as if to deny its documented heritage.… Continue reading on our website »

This is our twelfth update since 2019 closure to motorised transport.  The last time we reported on the bridge was nearly three years ago, when boreholes were being drilled to assess the strength of the river bed as part of preparation for straightening and potentially enacting the Foster-Cowi proposal.  Since then, the cracked pedestals have been filled, cast iron decorative covers completely removed, and the roadway resurfaced and reopened as a cycleway / walkway only, though high speed electric bikes and scooters whizz across it too.… Continue reading on our website »

The Hammersmith Society’s committee was pleased that the Council’s Planning Committee refused consent for the Phoenix Academy/London Square application for a combined educational and residential development at Phoenix Academy, which was of considerable concern to local people. Residents’ associations, with whom committee members had been in contact, raised a formidable campaign against the overbuilt proposal.

The planning application is here: 2025/02541/FUL and earlier scoping is 2024/03003/SCOEIA. The application is registered in the planning portal as ‘under assessment’, and provided the above image, demonstrating the inappropriate scale of the proposal.… Continue reading on our website »