https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/tag/local-plan/ Working to preserve and enhance our architecture and urban environment since 1962 Tue, 20 Jan 2026 11:24:29 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 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/local-plan/ 32 32 141086131 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/annual-report-2024-2025/ Tue, 20 Jan 2026 10:40:34 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=35732 Attached is this year’s Annual Report, reviewing the key activities of the Society, and at least three local megaprojects, this year also providing a reflection on the outgoing chairman’s three year term. Subjects include: The changing face of Hammersmith Projects in development  Local Plan Hammersmith Bridge Committee members Reflections on Chairmanship 2022-2025 The agenda, accounts]]> 35732 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/taking-a-view-better-plan-making-an-engineered-view/ Sun, 16 Feb 2025 10:22:41 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=34381 With both the London Plan and Hammersmith’s Local Plan due to be rewritten shortly, and with all the noise being made about ‘The Planning System’ in recent months, here, our Chairman takes an engineered view. How can we write better planning documents to improve the ‘planning system’ ? With the help of established methods, perhaps]]> 34381 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/the-planning-system/ Thu, 06 Feb 2025 12:12:19 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=28207 The planning system has become the whipping boy of our new government, blamed for many of the country’s economic ills. The government wants to to ‘cut red tape to speed up growth’, and with the right tapes cut, that could definitely help.  There can be no doubt that in some cases planning applications are frustrated]]> 28207 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/taking-a-view-opdc-local-plan-adoption/ Tue, 05 Jul 2022 09:53:25 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=27870 Our member Henry Peterson has a a lifetime’s experience in the world of planning, and been a long-term adviser to affiliate St. Helens Residents Association and the Old Oak Neighbourhood Forum.  He’s written on OPDC matters extensively, including for us, and his comments were mentioned several times in the recent Local Plan adoption meeting. Here]]> 27870 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/old-oak-park-royal-local-plan/ Mon, 06 Sep 2021 16:02:59 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=24628 A further consultation stage ended on 5 July. This was made necessary because the Car Giant section of the OPDC area was ruled to be “undevelopable” for the duration of the Plan (as a result of no agreement with Car Giant) – so the quantum of development has to be shifted to the west of]]> 24628 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/changing-the-planning-process/ Wed, 04 Nov 2020 19:43:21 +0000 http://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=19408 In March of this year the government promised legislation to improve the supply of new homes, including legislation on building safety, rental reform, social housing – and an update to the planning system. Following this, a government White Paper Planning for the Future proposed very significant changes to the planning process for public consultation which]]> 19408 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/civic-voice-manifesto-2020-2023/ Sat, 27 Jun 2020 16:30:02 +0000 http://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=15187 Civic Voice launched its Manifesto 2020-2023, 50 years after the Skeffington Report on Public Participation in Planning, which arose from growing concern about the top-down nature of post-war planning and development and growing interest in the idea of ‘participatory democracy’ (that ordinary people need to be engaged in decision-making rather than simply voting for representatives]]> 15187