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Below are short excerpts of our recent news with links to the full stories. Scroll down to select from our list of news topics, or to check our Diary, recent Twitter and Facebook postings.

crossrail delays

Crossrail, HS2, bridges and Oh… those delays

Crossrail passes through the top of our borough at OPDC, where it joins HS2, the UK’s other high profile and eyewateringly expensive rail project. This, contrasted with failing local infrastructure such as the unfunded Hammersmith Bridge and now 🔗 A40/A3220 …
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/ Government, Hammersmith Bridge, News, OPDC, Transport/TfL
1G to 5G phones

5G : Cutting through the mumbo-jumbo

Health scares, 18 metre masts, autonomous vehicles, economic recovery, critical national infrastructure, Huawei… It’s a long list. In Hammersmith we’ve started to see planning notices for 5G base stations, ironically mostly from the company named Three, and yes, since you ask, …
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/ Consultations, Environment/Streetscape, News, Ravenscourt
12-14 Wellesley Ave - 2019 proposed

Wellesley Avenue Appeal

The Hammersmith Society is supporting our affiliate, the 🔗 Brackenbury Residents Association and the local action group in objecting to the development proposed for the former Aston Martin garage at 12-14 Wellesley Avenue. The application scheme proposes a 3-storey building, …
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/ Affiliations, Consultations, News, Ravenscourt, Smaller Developments
Town Hall extension demolition

Town Hall extension demolition

Since the Town Hall extension was shrouded in scaffolding last year, internal strip-out has been progressing, and this year a gentler strip-out has been taking place inside the old Town Hall building, pictured.  We’re told that this continued where permitted …
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/ Conservation, Major Developments, News, Town Hall
Civic Voice

Civic Voice Manifesto 2020-2023

Civic Voice launched its Manifesto 2020-2023, 50 years after the 🔗Skeffington Report on Public Participation in Planning, which arose from growing concern about the top-down nature of post-war planning and development and growing interest in the idea of ‘participatory democracy’ …
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/ Consultations, Council, Local Plan, Neighbourhood planning, News
Save our Skyline

John Jones

Local residents will remember John Jones, who was for many years Chairman of our affiliate, the Ravenscourt Society, and who died in April.  For several decades he was a formidable defender of his patch of Hammersmith from ill-judged development and …
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/ Affiliations, Council, News, Parks/Open Spaces, Ravenscourt, Society/Awards, Town Hall
Hammersmith Bridge Construction

Hammersmith Bridge – widening the pathways

The Society’s committee is of the view that as part of the renovation work, there is a great opportunity to improve the Bridge to make it better suited to future needs, requiring more space for pedestrians and cyclists, as mentioned …
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/ Council, Cycling, Government, Hammersmith Bridge, News, Transport/TfL
Flora Gardens School Site

Building on School Land

The Council is struggling to finance the upkeep of its school estate, a portfolio which includes over forty primary schools.  Limited funds have been available since the government Building Schools for the Future programme was terminated in 2010, and in …
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/ Consultations, Council, News, Olympia/Brook Green/Avonmore, Parks/Open Spaces, Ravenscourt, Smaller Developments
Olympia performing arts centre 2018-08

Developments in lockdown

Developers’ teams remain busy during lockdown.  Last week we reported on the planning application for 181 Talgarth Road, with nearly 130 application documents and reports prepared and coordinated by a team operating from their home based computers – a remarkable …
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/ Major Developments, News, Olympia/Brook Green/Avonmore, Triangle Site

2020 : The Year of the Tree

Twenty-Twenty was named the “Year of the Tree” by the Tree Council, and moments before lockdown, in Davos the World Economic Forum announced the creation of the 🔗One Trillion Tree Initiative, following on from the UN Billion Tree Campaign of …
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/ Conservation, Council, Environment/Streetscape, Local Plan, News, Society/Awards
West London Magistrates hotels - RSHP - April 2020

Redevelopment of West London Magistrates Court – Update

181 Talgarth Road is the site where the former West London Magistrates building stands, located between the Ark office building and the BP garage, at the foot of the flyover. After the closing of the court facilities in 2017, the …
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/ Broadway, Consultations, Major Developments, News
227 Wood Lane: Women's Pioneer Housing

227 Wood Lane – Women’s Pioneer Housing

We reported in the Winter 2019-2020 newsletter that a proposal was being prepared by Architects Allford Hall Monaghan Morris for a new 25-storey tower block to the north of the A40 on Wood Lane. The proposals replace Browning House, which …
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/ Consultations, Local Plan, London Plan, Major Developments, News, White City
 
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News Topics

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Our Diary

  • Civic Voice Webinar: Prof Gavin Parker on Planning Reforms

    TODAY: Wed 23rd Sep | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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    Prof Gavin Parker to looks at plans for a zonal planning system in England. Register here >

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