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News in Brief

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.

Foster & Partners bridge proposal

Hammersmith Bridge – Radical temporary bridge proposal

Bridge proposal We were surprised and excited in equal measure to see a radical new proposal published by the council, in partnership with Foster and Partners and Sir John Ritblat of Delancey.  This is designed to temporarily solve the conundrum …
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/ Conservation, Council, Government, Hammersmith Bridge, News, Riverside, Transport/TfL
thumbnail of Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP Hammersmith Bridge 16.11.20

Hammersmith Bridge update

Following the Zoom public meeting three weeks ago, we considered our recent articles on the bridge, and, as promised, wrote to Grant Shapps MP, Secretary of State for Transport,  Baroness Vere, Chair, and Dana Skelley, Director of the Bridge Task …
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/ Conservation, Government, Hammersmith Bridge, News, Riverside, Transport/TfL
Hammersmith Society Awards Map

Website Improvements

The website continues to be updated with improvements to layout (such as use of tabs on some new pages), usability, and of course, plenty of new material.  We mentioned the new guide recently, it’s been renamed more accurately the Website …
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/ Capability Brown, News, Society/Awards
Bridge Permanent Stabilisation

Hammersmith Bridge update

Many Society members joined the Zoom public meeting with the Bridge Task Force a week ago. A FAQ, links to Task Force reports, and a copy of critical correspondence between the Task Force chairman and LBHF immediately prior to the …
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/ Conservation, Council, Government, Hammersmith Bridge, News, Riverside, Transport/TfL
Planning for the Future - HMG

Changing the Planning Process

In March of this year the government promised legislation to improve the supply of new homes, including legislation on building safety, rental reform, social housing – and an update to the planning system. Following this, a government White Paper …
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/ Conservation, Consultations, Council, Environment/Streetscape, Government, Local Plan, London Plan, Neighbourhood planning, News
Quaker meeting outside and garden

New Quaker Meeting House

(Click on images for full-sized versions, then scroll through the set) Members of the committee were very pleased to be offered a socially-distanced tour earlier this month around the recently completed Quaker Meeting House in Bradmore Park Road, opposite the …
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/ Affiliations, News, Ravenscourt, Smaller Developments
Hospitality in the Park (Finsbury Park)

Linford Christie Stadium and Wormwood Scrubs update

We reported earlier this year on plans for the Linford Christie Stadium site, which is right on the edge of Wormwood Scrubs and which, like the open space itself, is Metropolitan Open Land. Last year the Council held a consultation …
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/ Conservation, Council, News, Parks/Open Spaces
Hammersmith Bridge closed to river traffic August 2020

Hammersmith Bridge update

A head of steam is certainly building up for Bridge repairs, especially as winter approaches, but it remains to be seen whether this will translate into action. After much media/social media coverage, including stories on London TV news, a task …
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/ Conservation, Council, Government, Hammersmith Bridge, News, Riverside, Transport/TfL
Covid-19 map, 2020-10-14

COVID-19 in Hammersmith

The national picture for COVID-19 is mixed with some areas much more affected than others.  Despite well-publicised issues around test-track-and-trace, in a world of “big data”, the Government has made significant efforts to publish quite detailed data at various levels, …
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/ Consultations, Council, Government, News
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 viaduct, …
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/ Government, 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, significantly …
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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
 
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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

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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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