…cabinets are appalling, lacking the qualities of elegance and uniformity essential to create an acceptable presence on our streets. Instances of poor design in a streetscape can soon coalesce to create an impression of neglect and mediocrity which stifle aspirations…

…of Architecture that year. A significant part of that plan involved a reworking of Hammersmith to face more towards the river, by removing the awkward A4 spur road to the Broadway (seen above), and connecting King Street to St Paul’s…

King Street West. Block B (image: LBHF) The application will go to the Planning Committee on Tuesday 12 February. If approved, work on site could begin later this year. It has been a long time coming, after extensive public consultation,…

…Tennis Pavilion/café BT telephone kiosks with advertisements 271 – 281 King Street/Vencourt Place – New housing scheme Flats above Apple Estate agents, King’s Parade, Askew Road LAMDA – New extension Cycling signs – Brackenbury area White City : Imperial Campus…

…overwhelming majority, especially elderly, very young, disadvantaged and vulnerable people need buses and bus lanes (removed for CS6 above, and planned for removal as part of TfL’s CS9). We don’t relish King Street or Hammersmith Road looking anything like this….

We were concerned to learn in the Spring that the development was unlikely to proceed because of differences between the Council and the developers, King Street Developments. Cineworld Hammersmith demolished This has now been confirmed and it seems…

…Mayoral pronouncements – with talk of a ‘crisis’. The science is more nuanced than that, and as Kings College has recently said, walking and cycling down a back street you are likely to experience half the pollution, and be within…

…is worse than COVID. Unfortunately there’s also a real possibility that this is a simple old-fashioned cash-grab, as regularly suggested in the media. The Times reported last month via FOI, that LBHF is a parking fine hotspot, (the mechanism also…

…in 2013, 2014 and 2015 – this sadly continues a story of arboricultural neglect. 2021 King Street tree – dead in 2022 2021 King Street tree – dead in 2022 Queen Caroline Estate. Adjacent…

…of 12 houses at the rear. Apart from the penthouse, the scale of the front block sits comfortably in its street setting, but the street frontage, with its dominant projecting balconies and pronounced banding, would bring a heavy, dominant presence,…