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Thank you for all the feedback that was provided during the first stage of public consultation on the proposals for the redevelopment of Farm Lane.

Throughout the consultation process, there have been several key questions that have been asked by multiple respondents.

We have tried to address these within our Frequently Asked Questions document, which can be found by clicking on the below PDF.

This should help answer many of the questions that the local community has.

Dear All,

This is our third round of consultation exhibitions and events about the proposed development of new homes on the Aintree Estate.

These new homes are to replace the recently demolished Hartopp Point and Lannoy Point tower blocks.

We are still developing our designs and we want to invite you to our third round of consultation before we submit a planning application early next year:

The first phase of consultation is now live. Our initial ideas can be found on the PDF below.

We would like to invite you to our first public consultation on the proposals for 11 Farm Lane so that you can learn about our initial ideas for the site and provide your own thoughts and feedback on the proposals.

Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, we will be holding two sessions: one will be online and the other will be in person.

In person:

Date: Thursday 11th November

Time: 5:30pm-8:30pm

Venue: St John's Church, North End Road, London, SW6 1PB

Online:

There's still time to have your say on the new homes and community park for the Aintree Estate.

The closing date for feedback is now Sunday, October 10, 2021

Two online Public Exhibition events took place on Thursday 16 September 2021. You can view both the afternoon and evening events here:

After widespread consultation with residents, businesses and stallholders,  we’re starting work on improving North End Road.

We’re making the road safer by bringing all market bays up to pavement level. We’re repaving footways, planting new trees, installing new street lighting, creating charging points for electric vehicles and electricity for market traders, putting in additional seating and upgrading lampposts.

After being delayed by Covid, we’d planned to start the work this autumn. However, as Thames Water is repairing a sewer in the road at the moment, we’ve brought the work forward to minimise the number of times the road will be disrupted.

The improvements will start on Monday 28 June . I’m sorry for the short notice but hope you’ll agree it makes sense as Thames Water has already started work in the road with limited warning to the Council. The work will happen in stages – the market side of the road should be completed by next spring and the other side of the road by this Christmas.  The road will remain open for shopping throughout.

I apologise in advance for any inconvenience to you and hope you’ll like the results.  An artist’s impression of how the road will look is below.

We’re funding this with money we’ve negotiated from developers and with a successful bid we made to the Greater London Authority. We’re currently exploring funding for further improvements to the road. If you have any questions, please contact Michael Masella at the council or our contractor FM Conway – details below.

Best wishes,

Cllr Andrew Jones Cabinet Member for the Economy

Contact details: Lead Engineer: Michael.Masella@lbhf.gov.uk, Tel. 07795 127 316 Contractor: FM Conway, Tel. 01732 600 700 (24-hour site supervisor)

H&F Council is working to help local residents buy high quality solar panels from trusted suppliers.

Solar panels will help you generate your own green energy, for less. And by taking part, you'll be helping us cut carbon emissions and take action on the climate emergency.

It's open to all homeowners in the borough, or those with permission from their freeholder or landlord.

Please register your interest before Tuesday 23 March.

Hammersmith & Fulham Council has successfully secured more than £2m of funding to help make North End Road a more thriving, sustainable and welcoming high street and market.

It forms part of the work we’re doing in our community-led redesign of North End Road.

We’ve teamed up with Retail Revival to make sure we’re making the right improvements, which local people want and need, to the historic market with the new funding.

We invite you to complete our survey to help us make some positive changes to North End Road Market.

Thank you for taking the time to give us your views on addressing the climate and ecological emergency. We've had a great response and will be feeding back some of the key findings shortly.

In the meantime, you might have your own ideas on community projects that could improve your local environment or raise awareness of the need for all of us to play our part in helping to combat climate change. If you're inspired to set up a community garden or a food waste project, create community art from recycled materials, or raise funds for a green energy installation on a community building, you can join the many organisations across H&F who have used crowdfunding platform Spacehive to raise funds for your idea.

H&F Council has a partnership with Spacehive and have created our own page, the H&F Hive , for projects raising funds in the borough. The council has two funds on the H&F Hive to which local projects can pitch. To date, there have been 43 great projects that have successfully hit their fundraising targets, raising from less than £200 to £112,000!

Do you want to save money on your energy bills? The government is offering up to £10,000 to make your home more energy efficient with the new Green Homes Grant. If you qualify and are successful, you could get a voucher to make improvements that will:

If your household is on a low income you can apply for 100% of the cost of improvements, up to £10,000. All other homeowners and landlords can apply for up to two-thirds of the costs, receiving up to £5,000.

For example, if you’re not on a low income and you install insulation costing £4,000, you will only pay £1,320. The government would pay the remaining £2,680.

Not only could this save you hundreds of pounds per year on your energy bills, it will reduce your carbon footprint too and help in our efforts to combat the climate and ecological emergency.

If you rent your home, energy efficiency improvements to your rented home could save you money on your bills. Please get in touch with your landlord about this opportunity.

Energy improvements for your home can include:

Once you’ve used part of your voucher on these improvements, you can use any left over for upgrading single glazed windows, energy efficient doors, or hot water tank thermostats and heating controls.

Thank you to those of you who have already responded to the consultation on the Defend Council Homes Policy. We can see from your responses that residents of our council homes love where you live, and why it is so important that you are involved in any decision about your home's future.

You'll have read that we worked with council residents to develop the policy. It aims to protect your interests and make sure that if there are any redevelopment proposals affecting your home in the future they can’t go ahead unless you’ve had the opportunity to be fully involved from the very beginning.

Cllr Lisa Homan, Cabinet Member for Housing, has recorded a short video to explain more about why this policy is so important. You can watch it here:

It's important that we get a big thumbs-up from residents for the policy, because the greater the support for the policy, the stronger its protection will be.

Thank you to everyone who has responded to the Parks Commission consultation – there has been a great response and some really interesting ideas put forward for improvements in our parks and open spaces, and for how to involve more residents in decision-making. To enable more people to give us their views, we have decided to keep the consultation open for longer.

The new deadline for submitting comments is Sunday 21st June.

Hope you all had a good weekend!