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- Published: 18th January 2018
Town Hall January 2018
We have been advised that there will be an exhibition in the Town Hall to update progress on the scheme. There are two dates for these which are Thursday 1st February (4pm to 8pm) and Saturday 3rd February (10am to 2pm) – as shown in the society diary (right)
We hope that you will be able to get to one or other of these dates, and we would be pleased to hear any feedback.
- Published: 18th January 2018
The Council Cabinet agreed before Christmas to advance the plans to give many of our green spaces special protection, preserving them in perpetuity for future generations. For each park an individual ‘deed of dedication’ will be created with open spaces charity ‘Fields in Trust’ which is a nationwide organisation (visit www.fieldsintrust.org) and was previously known as the National Playing Fields Association.
The decision follows work by the Council’s Parks Commission set up last year and the Council’s pledge to protect open spaces from being sold off. Each of the main parks in the Borough had resident representatives on the Commission.
- Published: 18th January 2018
Hammersmith Bridge, night – Mariusz Czajkowski
We have been pressing the Council – so far unsuccessfully – for us to be involved in decisions regarding the refurbishment of the bridge which is due to take place later this year. As you will all be aware, the bridge is in need of strengthening so that it can support the weight of double decker buses and some lorries.
This a joint project between Transport for London and the Council who have responsibility for the maintenance of the bridge. Several short term closures have been necessary for temporary works and we understand further closures are necessary to allow detail survey work to be carried out. There still does not seem to be a formal programme for the main works. For obvious reasons we do not expect to be involved in the technical detail and our main interest is in the lighting and redecoration. Since the last lighting upgrade for which the Hammersmith Society gave its Environment Award in 2000 for the ‘blades of light’ created on each side of the bridge, lighting technology has moved on in leaps and bounds so that the individual incandescent bulbs will almost certainly be replaced by strips of modern LEDs.
Continued
- Published: 18th January 2018
As reported in my last News Update, another Listed building to be refurbished is the main auditorium at the Lyric.- Published: 18th January 2018
We think that at last the final piece in the assembly of the Capability Brown statue is nearly complete – the legal agreement whereby the Society gifts the statue to the Council who then formally take over the responsibility and maintenance of the statue. For reasons which we do not understand, the process has been mired in a legal bureaucracy, although there have been no disagreements about the detail. Nevertheless it will be relief when the process is completed.- Published: 18th January 2018
No this is not another football club! How many of you have heard of the Hammersmith United Charity or know of the amazing work that it does? In fact there are two sister charities which have both been operating for 400 years in Hammersmith and Fulham.Continued
- Published: 18th January 2018
Heathrow 3rd runway consultation
- Published: 18th January 2018
- Published: 18th January 2018
To conclude a very heavy year on major consultations (Local Plans for both LBHF and OPDC) we have one more major one which is the Mayor London’s latest draft for the London Plan. It weighs in at a whopping 530 pages, which is 100 pages more than the existing plan last updated just over a year ago – and probably several times heavier that the first Mayoral London Plan produced in 2004 by Ken Livingstone.- Published: 18th January 2018
There have been no new major site applications. The updated Local Plan originally planned for the Spring will not now be ready until the Summer – and this is thought to be due to the difficulties of reconciling the proposals with the realisation that the huge area of land required for the Crossrail Elizabeth line sidings cannot be built over economically and therefore will radically reduce the area of land available for development.Continued
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