https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/tag/transport-tfl/ 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 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/transport-tfl/ 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/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/white-city-underpass-approved-now-for-holland-park-roundabout/ Wed, 11 Jun 2025 10:11:46 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=34916 We’re pleased to note that yesterday, LBHF and RBKC simultaneously approved the proposed pedestrian and cycle underpass underneath the Overground (Mildmay Line), linking the Imperial White City North Campus to North Kensington’s Latimer Road.  Modelled on continental schemes by Dutch architects West 8 of Rotterdam, the D&A statement includes images from several similar schemes –]]> 34916 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/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/danish-cycling-culture/ Sat, 23 Nov 2024 18:38:59 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=33122 Will Norman, London’s cycling Czar, has been promoting Danish cycling culture for a decade, usually without mentioning it by name. So, on a recent trip to Copenhagen, it seemed worth making an ad-hoc study of the cycling scene. Back in 2017-18, when the whole CS9 debate got going in Hammersmith, in addition to a proposal]]> 33122 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