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Mogden sewage works

River Pollution

With the recent boat races having brought with them the annual hand-wringing over river pollution, providing the Mayor with an opportunity to remind us of his 2024 pledge to make London's rivers swimmable within 10 years, it seems an appropriate moment to ...
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/ Counters Creek/Tideway Tunnel, Environment / Streetscape, News, Riverside
King St rain gardens

King Street Public Realm Improvements

Nomination for a Nancye Goulden Award, 2025. The replacement of the bus lane in King Street by a temporary cycle lane during the pandemic was not without it's critics, including in this parish, given its impact on public transport - particularly with ...
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/ Award nominations, Environment / Streetscape, Ravenscourt/Grove, Society/Awards
Olympia 2nd February 2025

Olympia Update

The Olympia project is approaching completion after over seven years of planning and construction, and has been holding 'sneak peeks' for locals to see in and around selected parts of the building in recent weeks. We were fortunate enough to join one ...
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/ Addison/Brook Green/Olympia, Consultations, Major Developments, News
Heathrow operations 2025

Heathrow Third Runway

We attended the HACAN AGM at the Irish Cultural Centre last week where our MP Andy Slaughter was guest speaker. Those attending our 2023 AGM will also recall mention of the third runway in his speech, but only in passing. It has ...
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/ Air Quality & Climate, Airports, Consultations, News
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Taking a View – Better Plan making – an engineered view

With both the London Plan and Hammersmith's Local Plan due to be rewritten shortly, and with all the noise being made about 'The Planning System' in recent months, here, our Chairman takes an engineered view. How can we write better planning documents ...
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/ Government, Local Plan, London Plan, Neighbourhood Planning, Taking a View
Plan hierarchy

The Planning System

The planning system has become the whipping boy of our new government, blamed for many of the country's economic ills. The government wants to to 'cut red tape to speed up growth', and with the right tapes cut, that could definitely help.  ...
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/ Local Plan, London Plan, Neighbourhood Planning, News
Earls Court: Warwick Square proposed

Earls Court Hybrid Application – Joint Civic Society Review

The size of the hybrid planning application for Earls Court - 826 weighty documents - means that to address it meaningfully needed substantial resource. We teamed up with local civic and amenity societies and London Forum representatives to review the proposals in ...
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/ Avonmore/West Kensington, Consultations, Major Developments, News, Transport/TfL
Rivercourt LTN council information

Rivercourt Road: a new two-way LTN

Last year, we were contacted by residents of Rivercourt Road concerned about the increased traffic they said they were experiencing. Rivercourt is the road formerly running one-way towards King Street from the Great West Road as shown adjacent, with its twin - ...
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/ Council, Cycling, Environment / Streetscape, News, Transport/TfL
Bikes near a Copenhagen Station

Danish Cycling Culture

Will Norman, London's cycling Czar, has been promoting Danish cycling culture for a decade, usually without mentioning it by name. So, on a recent trip to Copenhagen, it seemed worth making an ad-hoc study of the cycling scene. Back in 2017-18, when ...
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/ Cycling, Environment / Streetscape, News, Transport/TfL
2024 AGM

2024 Awards Evening and AGM

(AGM Photos: Franco Chen. Click for full-size versions) We were delighted to announce our 2024 Awards at the AGM at 245 Hammersmith Road on Monday 30th September. The Awards were introduced by vice-chairman Richard Winterton and kindly presented by the Deputy Mayor, ...
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/ AGM, Environment / Streetscape, News, Parks/Open Spaces, Ravenscourt/Grove, Shepherd's Bush, Society/Awards, White City
255 Hammersmith Road

Development Permitted?

Since the election of the new government, we've seen a significant rise in medium to large offices in Hammersmith being proposed for conversion to residential use, under Permitted Development (PD) rules which are much more relaxed than normal planning rules. So far, ...
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/ Addison/Brook Green/Olympia, Avonmore/West Kensington, Broadway, Consultations, Major Developments, News
thumbnail of Hammersmith Society Annual Report 2023-2024

Annual Report 2023-2024

Attached is this year's Chairman's Annual Report, reviewing the key activities of the Society, plus a look at emerging trends in Hammersmith. Subjects include:
  • Royal Masonic Hospital
  • Earls Court
  • Purpose-Built Student Accommodation (PBSA)
/ AGM, Avonmore/West Kensington, Broadway, Conservation, Education, Flyunder, Hammersmith Bridge, Major Developments, Ravenscourt/Grove, Society/Awards, Town Centre Masterplan, Transport/TfL