Hammersmith Town Centre

Hammersmith Town Centre

Decent Neighbourhood Programme

The council proposes the regeneration of Hammersmith town centre to ensure it remains as a major shopping and employment centre. Opportunities should be taken to improve the public realm and improve access between the town centre and the Thames.

The council supports the regeneration of the western part of the town centre around the Town Hall while encouraging the improvement of Kings Mall Shopping Centre and major stores in the town centre.

The council’s preferred way forward is to:

 Promote Hammersmith as an important office, retail and leisure centre

 Redevelop the area around the Town Hall, including the demolition of the Town Hall Extension, to create new high quality offices and public space to restore civic pride to the area. The development would allow a significant increase in housing, with up to 250 additional units, including new shopping and creating easy access to Furnivall Gardens and King Street.

 Improve Kings Mall and Ashcroft Square estate by encouraging a comprehensive mixed use town centre scheme which creates better housing on the same site while providing a substantial amount of new jobs through office development and better town centre facilities.

 Develop Queens Wharf and Riverside Studios as one scheme, including new facilities for the studios, to the highest design quality with scope for rebuilding part of the Queen Caroline estate in the next 20 years to provide better quality homes and a better mix of properties for current and future generations.