https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/tag/parks-open-spaces/ Working to preserve and enhance our architecture and urban environment since 1962 Sun, 15 Feb 2026 11:17:59 +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/parks-open-spaces/ 32 32 141086131 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/2024-awards-evening-and-agm/ Mon, 14 Oct 2024 20:20:31 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=33283 (AGM Photos: Franco Chen. Click for full-size versions) We were delighted to announce our 2024 Awards at the AGM at 245 Hammersmith Road on Monday 30th September. The Awards were introduced by vice-chairman Richard Winterton and kindly presented by the Deputy Mayor, cllr. Daryl Brown.  Members and supporters were provided excellent hospitality for which we]]> 33283 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/ravenscourt-park-tea-house-2/ Sun, 08 Sep 2024 19:19:22 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=32931 Tom Ryland Award for Conservation, 2024. The Grade 2 listed, 200 year old Tea House was on the buildings at risk register for some time (see related story), but has now been sensitively restored by the council and made weathertight, along with the adjacent toilet block (to the left of the photos). The interior is]]> 32931 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/parks-and-open-spaces-in-new-developments/ Wed, 20 Dec 2023 10:52:39 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=31189 There should of course be an obvious answer to the question of what constitutes a park. Summer’s faded into a distant memory, so it’s a good time to take stock, with a season of site visits, reviews of virtual CGI, and actual wooden models of new developments in full swing, showing the newly alluring sunlit]]> 31189 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/building-on-school-land-update/ Wed, 21 Sep 2022 11:54:17 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=28107 Members of your committee, affiliates and resident groups around two primary schools – Avonmore and Flora Gardens – were concerned to see the revival of an unreconstructed Community Schools Programme on the recent council cabinet agenda. The agenda item was in effect crystallising the May 2022 Labour manifesto into council policy. However, we wrote 4 letters]]> 28107 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/hs2-muddled-thinking/ Wed, 11 Aug 2021 15:40:58 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=24304 If you saw the HS2 story on last week’s Newsnight, you might be surprised at how so much money has been spent, and how much digging done, including in this borough with parts of Wormwood Scrubs being churned up to break ground for Old Oak station, “the most connected station in the UK”, possibly without]]> 24304 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/ravenscourt-park-tea-house/ Mon, 08 Mar 2021 14:15:25 +0000 http://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=21912 The Ravenscourt Park Tea House, a popular stopping point in the park, has been in a dilapidated condition for some time, and been a concern of the Friends of Ravenscourt Park, as well as being on Historic England’s Buildings At Risk register. It closed in 2019 largely because of its increasingly poor condition. The Friends,]]> 21912 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/linford-christie-stadium-and-wormwood-scrubs-update/ Mon, 26 Oct 2020 19:12:07 +0000 http://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=18892 We reported earlier this year on plans for the Linford Christie Stadium site, which is right on the edge of Wormwood Scrubs and which, like the open space itself, is Metropolitan Open Land. Last year the Council held a consultation on the future of the stadium, which resulted – with apparently a big push from]]> 18892