https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/tag/town-centre-masterplan/ Working to preserve and enhance our architecture and urban environment since 1962 Sat, 18 Oct 2025 10:33:56 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 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/town-centre-masterplan/ 32 32 141086131 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/annual-report-2023-2024/ Fri, 27 Sep 2024 09:25:24 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=33077 Attached is this year’s Chairman’s Annual Report, reviewing the key activities of the Society, plus a look at emerging trends in Hammersmith. Subjects include: Royal Masonic Hospital Earls Court Purpose-Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) 181 Talgarth Road, M&S & 2 Queen Caroline St. Town Centre Masterplan / SPD Transport Hammersmith Bridge Roundabout consultations The Society Prof.]]> 33077 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/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 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/marks-spencer-27-king-street-update/ Wed, 26 Oct 2022 14:49:51 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=28340 Many of you will have been to the exhibition at the Lyric recently to view the proposals and displays.  We exhorted the development team to show full elevations, but the best we achieved at the time were partial CGI images.  They have now come forward with North and East elevations, which are on the consultation]]> 28340 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/marks-spencer-27-king-street/ Tue, 23 Aug 2022 17:57:22 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=27967 You  may have seen the website https://27kingstreet.co.uk recently created for a consultation related to the proposed redevelopment of Marks and Spencer in Hammersmith.  Like many high street shops, this location has become a little tired in the nearly 100 years of its existence, and our M&S has additionally had a curiously broken roofline for as]]> 27967 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/west-london-magistrates-court-redevelopment-update-2/ Tue, 01 Mar 2022 16:01:37 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=25443 The third iteration of this project has been submitted to council planners for approval under ref 2021/03561/FUL. After the closure of the courts in 2017, the usual procedure of retaining the site in public ownership to provide facilities for public benefit was set aside, and the site was sold for around £45M to the Dominvs]]> 25443 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/west-london-magistrates-court-redevelopment-update/ Sat, 10 Apr 2021 15:35:51 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=22673 In April last year we reported on the hotel development proposed for the former West London Magistrate’s Court site at 181 Talgarth Road, a proposal which would include two hotels:  a 442-bedroom, 23-storey luxury hotel, and a 440-bed, 10-storey tourist hotel. Permission for the development was agreed in July, and after referral to the Mayor’]]> 22673 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/redevelopment-of-west-london-magistrates-court-update/ Wed, 29 Apr 2020 09:00:38 +0000 http://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=14350 181 Talgarth Road is the site where the former West London Magistrates building stands, located between the Ark office building and the BP garage, at the foot of the flyover. After the closing of the court facilities in 2017, the site was sold for commercial use, and in January 2019 the new owner submitted a]]> 14350