https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/tag/hammersmith-council/ Working to preserve and enhance our architecture and urban environment since 1962 Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:38:01 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 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/hammersmith-council/ 32 32 141086131 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/rivercourt-road-ltn-and-the-west-dulwich-case/ Wed, 11 Jun 2025 12:08:55 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=34839 In the six months since the temporary Rivercourt Road LTN was put in place, we’ve received messages nearly every week – vanishingly few positive – and it’s still regularly our most read article on the website.  Messages fall into the following categories, with more than one correspondent questioning legality: Implementation problems: I’ve received a fine,]]> 34839 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/rivercourt-road-a-new-two-way-ltn/ Sun, 24 Nov 2024 10:30:22 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=33525 Last year, we were contacted by residents of Rivercourt Road concerned about the increased traffic they said they were experiencing. Rivercourt is the road formerly running one-way towards King Street from the Great West Road as shown adjacent, with its twin – Weltje Road – running one-way towards the A4. On Thursday, Rivercourt road became]]> 33525 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/ravenscourt-park-visitors-keep-out/ Wed, 24 Jul 2024 11:49:50 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=32734 Wooden Spoon, 2024. True? It certainly looks like it.  First, the popular paddling pool acquired a costly gated cage, a pre-booking requirement taking much the spontaneity out of a summer visit, with numbers, time limits and families frequently turned away. Next, some gates  – function unclear –  have appeared across the busy Ravenscourt Avenue entrance.]]> 32734 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/town-centre-masterplan/ Tue, 06 Feb 2024 13:50:11 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=32105 The council has reworked several pieces of longstanding planning work, and is asking for feedback from you in a series of consultations – details in our diary. We’ve been keen to progress this matter for a while, and it’s good to see new activity. Firstly we should set the historical context, to better understand how]]> 32105 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/wheelie-bins/ Wed, 06 Sep 2023 12:39:52 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=31435 Members have been writing to us about council plans for wheelie bins in some areas, though parts of the borough already have them from a pilot scheme. Our interest is to ensure that they don’t damage the streetscape and the wider environment through excessive or unnecessary deployment of plastic, especially of the large and/or dayglo]]> 31435 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/a-permanent-cycleway-9/ Wed, 21 Jun 2023 08:30:52 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=29835 The council’s short-notice decision to make C9 permanent was reported in HammersmithToday in March. That would be less significant if the January to June Key Decisions List had mentioned it, or if the cycle and walking commission had been in the loop. This key decision was made on 6th March – on the cusp of]]> 29835 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/shop-fronts/ Mon, 13 Feb 2023 15:39:23 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=28939 In recent months we, our members, affiliates and others have noticed an increase in unsympathetic shop fronts or public realm land-grabs adjacent to shops, particularly in King Street, but elsewhere in the borough too. We are of course aware of the plight of the high street, an issue we wrote about in 2019, but the]]> 28939