Planning Permission in Hammersmith | Fixed-Fee Plans

An Article 4 Direction applies across Hammersmith and Fulham, so check it before assuming Hammersmith permitted development survives. Officers see Hammersmith as Victorian terraces, riverside character — design that ignores it struggles. Inside the Brackenbury Village boundary — one of 45 such designations in Hammersmith and Fulham — a Hammersmith scheme normally goes straight to a full Hammersmith & Fulham Council application rather than relying on permitted development. The designation map is read street by street in Hammersmith.

The Hammersmith Article 4 position is established at survey, before design. Measure a W6 property and the victorian terraces answers most of it — where the original rear wall sat, and what height the Hammersmith street will carry. The borough policy layer over every W6 address is set out on Hammersmith and Fulham planning. The Hammersmith survey then carries into building regulations drawings in Hammersmith if the project runs on to construction.

Validation alone costs London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham one to two weeks even when the Hammersmith pack is complete, and that queue — not the determination — is where most W6 delay starts. The first visit to Hammersmith is a measured survey — every room, every opening, every level change recorded on site.

Statutory periods: 8 weeks from validation for a householder application, 13 weeks for a major scheme, 6 weeks for prior approval with a 21 days neighbour consultation, and 5 weeks for a full plans building control submission. A party structure notice requires one month notice and two months where excavation is involved.

London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham publishes the Hammersmith application online during consultation. Nothing leaves for a Hammersmith address until it matches the local validation checklist.

London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham weighs material objections only — a Hammersmith neighbour disliking the design is not one. Everything drawn for a W6 address traces back to a measurement taken on site.

Serve W6 party wall notices before work starts, not after. Once consent is granted, loft conversion drawings follows for the W6 property.

Hammersmith is characterised by victorian terraces, mansion blocks, concentrated across W6 in the Hammersmith / Brackenbury Village area. What the victorian terraces in Hammersmith allows is a construction question first and a planning question second, and the survey answers it. Reading that across to Hammersmith stock: most applications on these Victorian streets are householder applications validated on existing and proposed plans, elevations, a site plan and a location plan. That is the Hammersmith constraint Hammersmith & Fulham Council will look for. The W6 terrace sets the datum; departures from it show up in the officer report.

Hammersmith and Fulham sets no special basement rule, so a Hammersmith lower-ground scheme stands or falls on the engineering and the neighbours. We do not re-measure a W6 property for each stage of the job.

What the Hammersmith drawing pack contains

The Hammersmith package covers every sheet London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham asks for.

• site location plan for the Hammersmith property
• block plan
• existing and proposed floor plans
• existing and proposed elevations
• Design & Access Statement

Streets and landmarks we survey around Hammersmith

• Notting Hill — gardens deep enough for the 8 weeks householder route on a Notting Hill plot.
• Hammersmith Broadway — gardens deep enough for the 8 weeks householder route on a Hammersmith Broadway plot.
• Brook Green — front-to-back level changes that drive the Brook Green section drawings.
• Cambridge Grove — roof profiles that set the ridge datum Hammersmith & Fulham Council measures a Cambridge Grove dormer against.
• Furnivall Gardens — closet wings that change how a rear extension meets the Furnivall Gardens back addition.
• Furnival Gardens — shared flank walls, so Furnival Gardens party structure notices go out before work starts.
• Ravenscourt Park — side returns where the 45-degree amenity test decides how far a Ravenscourt Park extension goes.
• Apollo — schemes in view of it attract closer officer scrutiny.
• Hammersmith Bridge — schemes visible from it get closer scrutiny in Hammersmith and Fulham.
• The British Library — massing on adjoining W6 plots is tested against it.
• St Paul's Girls' School — schemes in view of it attract closer officer scrutiny.
• Hammersmith Bridge — schemes visible from it get closer scrutiny in Hammersmith and Fulham.
• Charing Cross Hospital — it fixes the local datum a Hammersmith roof extension is judged against.

Getting to a Hammersmith survey

Surveyors travel to W6 addresses from the studio; the nearest stations are Hammersmith power station, coal-fired power station, Hammersmith, West Kensington. Appointments are booked in Hammersmith on weekdays and Saturdays, and the measured survey of a standard victorian terraces takes two to three hours.

Where Hammersmith sits

Hammersmith lies 4.3 miles (6.9 km) southwest of Charing Cross, on Ordnance Survey grid reference TQ233786, with the River Thames shaping drainage and flood-risk questions on lower-lying W6 plots, inside the Hammersmith and Chiswick parliamentary constituency. We plot the Hammersmith site from that reference rather than from a sale plan. Source.

Practical detail for a Hammersmith submission: residents use Hammersmith power station and coal-fired power station and Hammersmith and West Kensington; post town LONDON; dialling code 020. Site plans are drawn to the address as Hammersmith & Fulham Council holds it.

Hammersmith postcode coverage

We draw W6 (Hammersmith / Brackenbury Village), shared with Brackenbury Village addresses, and Hammersmith & Fulham Council validates each on the address itself.

Streets and stations in Hammersmith

Around Hammersmith that means Notting Hill, Hammersmith Broadway, Brook Green, Cambridge Grove, Furnivall Gardens, Furnival Gardens and Ravenscourt Park. most Hammersmith sites are within walking distance of Hammersmith power station or coal-fired power station or Hammersmith.

Areas we cover around Hammersmith

We survey across Park Royal (NW10), Chiswick (W4), Brentford (TW8), Isleworth (TW7), Hounslow (TW3), Feltham (TW13) as well as Hammersmith itself, plus the Wandsworth side of the boundary.

What changes a Hammersmith fee is the property: victorian terraces construction, shared walls on W6, and whether heritage input is needed.

Statutory application fees are set by regulation, not by the council: £548 householder, £610 for a new dwelling, £274 for a lawful development certificate, £249 for prior approval.

On a Hammersmith submission the statutory element is London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham's, not ours. London planning approval-rate dataset · Hammersmith and Fulham planning · planning permission in London · planning permission in Park Royal.

MCIAT chartered technologists handle every W6 submission we make. When a Hammersmith case could go either way we pay for Hammersmith & Fulham Council pre-application advice rather than test it live.

Drawings are produced by chartered members of the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists (MCIAT), the professional body for technical design and building-regulations competence. First-time approval across our London caseload is 98%. Statutory fees shown are those in force in England in 2026 under the Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications) Regulations. Confirm your local authority at gov.uk and submission requirements on the Planning Portal. Studio: 71–75 Shelton Street, London WC2H 9JQ.

The first step for a Hammersmith owner is a measured survey, not a design. This Hammersmith page was reviewed in August 2026.