https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/tag/air-quality/ Working to preserve and enhance our architecture and urban environment since 1962 Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:47:52 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/cropped-hammersmith-society_founded1962.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/tag/air-quality/ 32 32 141086131 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/heathrow-third-runway/ Sun, 16 Feb 2025 10:28:06 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=34299 We attended the HACAN AGM at the Irish Cultural Centre last week where our MP Andy Slaughter was guest speaker. Those attending our 2023 AGM will also recall mention of the third runway in his speech, but only in passing. It has of course never left Heathrow’s agenda, though it must have come as a]]> 34299 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/2023-awards-evening-and-agm/ Mon, 17 Jul 2023 08:32:52 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=31333 (AGM Photos: Franco Chen. Click for full-size versions) We were delighted to announce our 2023 Awards at the AGM at 245 Hammersmith Road on Thursday 29th June, with the Awards introduced by vice-chairman Richard Winterton and kindly presented by our guest speaker Andy Slaughter MP.  Members and supporters were provided excellent hospitality for which we]]> 31333 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/air-quality-in-hammersmith-part-1-can-the-can/ Mon, 12 Jun 2023 10:54:36 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=29265 As an off-beat way to mark the half-century since that iconic song Can the CAN topped the charts in June 1973, in the last six months LBHF has sponsored air quality monitors installed on roadsides near a number of primary schools, and on the C9 cycleway. The short and long-term numbers show that air quality]]> 29265 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/clean-air-neighbourhoods/ Fri, 16 Dec 2022 12:11:13 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=28408 We expect the council’s Clean Air Neighbourhoods policy to be a well-intentioned and researched policy, with its implications and unintended consequences carefully considered. There are good things in here, such as planting more street trees, improvements to street safety, and some incentives intended to discourage car use. However, on examination, few measures actually relate directly]]> 28408 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/edward-woods-estate-lessons-from-a-1-million-solar-flop/ Wed, 25 May 2022 11:48:18 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=26136 Our beady eye on planning applications has noted the seemingly innocuous application 2022/00504/CLP for removal of the arrays of a total of around 1000 solar panels across the southern elevations of the three tower blocks alongside the A3220, that form the Edward Woods Estate on the edge of the borough, but also ‘the largest building-integrated]]> 26136 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/heat-and-buildings-strategy/ Wed, 10 Nov 2021 17:30:05 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=25148 We mentioned the government’s long-awaited Heat and buildings strategy in the article about Zero carbon homes a couple of months ago. Now published ahead of COP26, the direction of travel is a little clearer. Here we summarise what it says, looking at how it will affect you and your decisions as your existing heating system]]> 25148 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/a-practical-zero-carbon-home/ Wed, 11 Aug 2021 15:48:26 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=24207 Zero carbon homes are very much on-topic with the COP26 summit approaching in November, but to date rather more discussion has been around standards for newbuilds, downplaying the fact that by most measures 70-80% of the planned “net zero homes of 2050” are already built, 9-inch solid walls, warts and all.  “Decarbonising” them is now]]> 24207 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/new-quaker-meeting-house/ Mon, 26 Oct 2020 19:15:22 +0000 http://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=18149 (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 Grove Neighbourhood Centre.  Designed by Satellite Architects, chosen from a field of 126 candidates, and]]> 18149