The 12-page October Newsletter has been published and circulated to subscribing members.  Subjects include: AGM and Environment Awards Cambridge House Heathrow The Walkabout Air Quality Commission Local Plan OPDC and Genesis Housing Car Giant Capability Brown Statue Cecil French collection Town Centre Masterplanning Festival of Architecture White City Place Friends’ Meeting House St. Augustine’s Church and

The Hammersmith Society today announced this year’s winners of its prestigious Environment Awards, presented by Cllr Mercy Umeh, Mayor of Hammersmith and Fulham, at its AGM on Thursday 9 June at the Dorsett Hotel, Shepherds Bush Green, W12.  Here’s the press release for the 2016 Environment Awards Environment Award: Dunnhumby Building, 184 Shepherds Bush Road,

Our day to day work of monitoring and commenting on planning applications continues relentlessly. Recent and current schemes include Savoy Circus (Student Housing) – turned down by the Planning and Development Committee in February in spite of officer support : Proposals for Latymer Upper School  Boathouse, St Paul’s Girls School, Cambridge House, Auriol Road, Dimes

Negotiations are now progressing for a possible location south of Hammersmith Bridge. Watch this space… In the meantime, John Goodier, Chairman of the Hammersmith and Fulham Historic Buildings Group, has advised us as follows : ‘London Landscapes no 42 Spring 2016 contains a lot of information about Brown in London.  There are 42 Brown sites

The 16-page April Newsletter has been published and circulated to subscribing members.  Subjects include: St. Augustine’s Church And Priory Cambridge House Old Oak Common And Park Royal (OPDC) Car Giant Dimes Place AGM Mobile Phone Masts The Walkabout Air Quality Commission The Third Runway At Heathrow Neighbourhood Planning Hammersmith Residents’ Working Party Latymer School Boathouse

(See Newsletter Page 2) : An application has now been received by the Council. The planning reference no. is 2016/01230/FUL. The address on the application is given as 104 King Street. Early indications are that it is similar to the 2013 application (Ref. 2013/01017/FUL) which local residents accepted. Is the latest application just keeping the

In addition to the larger proposals for development – those which hit the news – our everyday bread-and-butter covers many smaller applications. These might include advertising boards and Highways’ proposals, as well as over-ambitious domestic applications. We respond by using the short-cut offered in Planning Alerts mentioned above. To take one example, the Shepherds Bush

There are as far as we know no immediate threats to our Open Spaces in Hammersmith but we always have to be vigilant. For example, Wormwood Scrubs is within the OPDC area and there are anxieties as to what effects all the development may mean for this Metropolitan Open Land. Similarly Little Wormwood Scrubs (on

News in brief . . . . Triangle Site : The last commercial scheme was refused permission:  A new residential scheme has been submitted but officers are waiting for additional information before the scheme is ‘validated’ and consultations can commence. Walkabout Site : The developers (Dorsett Hotel) are in the process of setting up consultation

For many years there has been rivalry between Hammersmith and Fulham. We were after all separate Boroughs until a Local Government reorganisation in 1968 when they were combined. The Fulham Society and the Hammersmith Society have different outlooks and there has been some ill feeling – usually towards us because we have had the temerity