https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/tag/major-developments/ Working to preserve and enhance our architecture and urban environment since 1962 Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:32:12 +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/major-developments/ 32 32 141086131 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/phoenix-academy-proposal-rejected/ Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:12:44 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=36129 The Hammersmith Society’s committee was pleased that the Council’s Planning Committee refused consent for the Phoenix Academy/London Square application for a combined educational and residential development at Phoenix Academy, which was of considerable concern to local people. Residents’ associations, with whom committee members had been in contact, raised a formidable campaign against the overbuilt proposal.]]> 36129 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/lawn-house-proposed-redevelopment/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 18:54:59 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=35387 Lawn House stands on the corner of The Lawn and Uxbridge Road, next to 2023’s award-winning Hoxton Hotel, partly shown. Previously a Barclays Bank and now vacant, it provides the opportunity to complete The Lawn’s decade-long transformation into a series of hotels with improved public realm. This hotel is proposed to contain 130 rooms, 60%]]> 35387 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/royal-masonic-hospital-approval/ Wed, 06 Aug 2025 08:17:07 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=35202 This project finally received permission by unanimous vote after a long planning meeting on 30th July, but with some remaining concerns expressed by neighbours. A member of your committee attended to observe and note the proceedings. We’ve written about this project four times and have been working to help improve the scheme since the site]]> 35202 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/tall-buildings/ Tue, 27 May 2025 09:09:22 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=32518 Hammersmith has several tall buildings, the latest being 181 Talgarth road, but perhaps the most iconic is 1961’s Empress State (31 Storeys) next to Earls Court. There are more in the pipeline, particularly on our borders. Six years ago, we wrote about the increasing fashion for rather less iconic hi-rises, then referring to what we]]> 32518 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/olympia-update-3/ Mon, 10 Mar 2025 18:18:02 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=34422 The Olympia project is approaching completion after over seven years of planning and construction, and has been holding ‘sneak peeks’ for locals to see in and around selected parts of the building in recent weeks. We were fortunate enough to join one of these tours.   As has been fairly longstanding policy, no independent photos were]]> 34422 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/earls-court-hybrid-application-joint-civic-society-review/ Mon, 02 Dec 2024 11:11:14 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=33771 The size of the hybrid planning application for Earls Court – 826 weighty documents – means that to address it meaningfully needed substantial resource. We teamed up with local civic and amenity societies and London Forum representatives to review the proposals in detail. This was helped in no small part by the work that each group has put in over the last three years of consultation and discussion with the developers, Earls Court Development Company (ECDC), and the huge level of institutional knowledge they brought.]]> 33771 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/development-permitted/ Mon, 14 Oct 2024 18:29:51 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=33182 Since the election of the new government, we’ve seen a significant rise in medium to large offices in Hammersmith being proposed for conversion to residential use, under Permitted Development (PD) rules which are much more relaxed than normal planning rules. So far, nearly 400 potential flats have been proposed, all on busy main roads, with]]> 33182