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Hammersmith embankment. Waterfront.

AMBITIOUS plans by Delancey, Jamie Ritblat’s private property company, and Akeler, the business space developer, to build half a million square feet of offices on a prime site in Hammersmith face rejection by local councillors, The Times has learnt. The estimated £400 million scheme aimed to create a new Thames-side business quarter with 480,000 sq ft of offices, equivalent to half the size of the original Canary Wharf tower. It was to link Hammersmith Embankment with the town centre, remodel a public park and transform the riverside with a new watersports facility and outdoor cafés. Hammersmith & Fulham council said: “We have received a planning application for this scheme. We do have concerns and will recommend refusal in its current form.”  The developers have now withdrawn their application.

Eamon Corless ● 7061d9 Comments

The vendors of Hammersmith Embankment, O&H construction haved moved back into Hammersmith by buying The Ark. All I can say is good luck to the neighbours as their reputation precedes them.......!!!!

Eamon Corless ● 7014d

Here's a first: I agree with Mark Loveday!The scheme was appalling from the start: the first phase of the site which includes King Henry's Reach and the two mausoleum-esque "terracotta" office blocks next to it got permission (and, in my view, shouldn't have) in 1989.This was the single issue that I spent most of my eight years as the councillor for that area working on.For information the site DOES NOT include Frank Banfield Park, despite successive developers pretending that it does: there is a S106 planning agreement that the developers will improve the park; which they take to mean turning it into some grand boulevard for the purpose of exibiting their site; but which (if the current/future ward councillors are worth anything) should be geared towards better serving the local community who use it - properly fencing it, locking it at night, making it safer.I did actually negotiate some affordable housing into the old application; a terrace on Winslow Road where the old London Newspaper Group HQ used to be.  Whether that survives the new plans is moot - but as Eamon says, if more housing and community facilities is a priority for you and the application doesn't reflect that: object.

Adam Gray ● 7051d

Next time planning goes back in- if you don't agree"Object to it". Thats how the system works.

Eamon Corless ● 7057d

This was a bit of a crackpot scheme anyway. There is a surplus of offices locally - just loom at the Ark which is still empty.

Mark Loveday ● 7057d

Thanks Eamon.  Hopefully it will come to nothing too disastrous.

Caroline MacMillan ● 7058d

No. a walkway along the thames can no longer be removed. but what it will not allow is houseboats to moor in the river and along the river wall. So much for increasing social housing and enhanceing the river...It is the walk from the river Cafe up to pernod richard building.

Eamon Corless ● 7058d

Thanks.  Will it prevent people walking by the river bank or has the Thames Path veered away from it there?

Caroline MacMillan ● 7058d

The site is between Chancellors road and winslow road- First turn right after the broadway-Off fulham palace road. It includes the small frank banfield park.

Eamon Corless ● 7058d

Where exactly are they planning this monster.  By Furnival Gardens or alongside the town hall/Cromwell Avenue?

Caroline MacMillan ● 7058d