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ISSUE 7 – OCTOBER 2012
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Contents 7
Boris bike countdown Just one year to wait until hire scheme arrives
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Don’t mess with A&E! Feelings run high with casualty units under threat
Stink-pipe bridge risk
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Worries over iconic Thames crossing
How vintage chic has transformed a Fulham pub into a parents’ haven
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Viv is the top lookout Thieves caught as a result of her vigilance
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Two more schools planned Addressing the future ‘birth bulge’
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Free school gets new home Palingswick House can now be transformed
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Third runway? Forget it! Opposition grows to yet more Heathrow expansion
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H&F is a safer borough Latest stats show dramatic fall in crime rates
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Engravings for Olympics Artist celebrates a great summer with print edition
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Recycle centre’s charity link Now unwanted items go to those that need them
PUBLISHER Hammersmith & Fulham Council www.lbhf.gov.uk
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Interview
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Author, historian and long-time Shepherds Bush resident records the history of Wormholt Park
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ITV newsreader Natasha Kaplinsky at the Daisy Trust event in the Hurlingham Club, Fulham PICTURES BY LEIGH QUINNELL
ENEROUS local residents were out in full force to support the annual Daisy Trust Fair at the prestigious Hurlingham Club in Ranelagh Gardens, Fulham. ITV newsreader Natasha Kaplinsky came along to help raise money for the charitable organisation last month, aided by the mayor of Hammersmith & Fulham Belinda Donovan. More than 1,000 people turned up on the day to see the latest offerings of fashion, jewellery and accessories on show at the trust’s major fundraiser of the year. The stallholders all donated a percentage of their takings to the charity, with money then pumped straight back into Alie Plumstead
the local community. Last year, the Daisy Trust marked its 30th anniversary by giving out 25 grants to charities and voluntary groups in the borough. Daisy Trust chairman Pepita Stonor said: “We have more stalls and people than ever before this year. “It is great to see so many people here today to support the cause and help give something back to the community.” Alie Plumstead, who ran her Little Plum stall at the fundraiser, said: “This is my third year supporting the trust, which is great at supporting the community.” Shopper and Fulham resident Fred Marsh said: “It is a marvellous charity and a wonderful place to come down and do a spot of early Christmas shopping with such a wide array of choices.” The Daisy Trust has previously donated money to the Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation and Volunteer Reading Help. l For more information on the Daisy Trust visit: www.daisytrust.org
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NEWS
Boris bikes have already arrived at the Westfield mall in Shepherds Bush. But by spring 2014 there could be 70 new sites stocked with the hire cycles
Boris bikes are on their way in new westward expansion YOU’VE ONLY A YEAR TO WAIT UNTIL YOU CAN HOP ON A HIRE BIKE IN HAMMERSMITH & FULHAM AS THE SITING DETAILS ARE THRASHED OUT, Writes DELYTH BOWEN
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ORIS bikes will soon become a common sight in west London after H&F Council agreed to help bring them to the borough. The council has pledged £2million to the Barclays hire scheme, recouping that from developers who have built schemes in the local area, so council taxpayers won’t have to foot the bill. An initial list of 200 potential docking station sites, many suggested by local cyclists, is being whittled down to around 70 for a spring 2014 launch. TfL wants docking stations every 300-400
yards, each with a minimum of 25 bikes. H&F cabinet member Victoria BrocklebankFowler said: “We are keen to see the Boris bike revolution expand westwards to encourage more to get on their bikes.” It is hoped to site 2,000 bikes in H&F, Wandsworth, Lambeth and Kensington & Chelsea. There are 3,900 registered users in H&F. Four stations have existed at Westfield mall, Shepherds Bush, for six months. l Visit: www.lbhf.gov.uk/ getmoving to see a map of the potential bike docking stations.
Cyclist numbers on the rise in borough CYCLING schemes have contributed to a rise in the number of cyclists. According to a report at the council’s transport select committee, cycling has increasing by 43 per cent – making H&F one of London’s top bicycling boroughs. Around seven per cent of H&F residents currently cycle to work. The rise is attributed to road improvements, the creation of new cycle paths, an extra 94 cycle parking stands, raised table junctions in side streets and an award-winning training scheme for cyclists and lorry drivers. And there are proposals for two new cycle superhighways on the A4 and the A40. John Griffiths of H&F Cyclists (pictured left in white T-shirt) said: “It’s great to have been heard by councillors. Our aspirations include a 20mph limit for Hammersmith Bridge and a clear run through Beadon Road.” l View Mr Griffiths’ presentation to the council’s transport select committee at: www.hfcyclists.org.uk/BestPractice.ppt
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NHS belongs to everyone!
A resident puts NHS chiefs (bottom right) on the spot. Below left, H&F Council leader Nicholas Botterill (right) and H&F councillors with a 22,000 signatures opposing NHS plans to shut A&Es
‘The NHS belongs to us – the people – not the management consultants and bureaucrats. They need to back off our hospitals’ Ray Champion of Fulham ‘By grouping more clinical specialisms on fewer sites our evidence shows you get clinical benefits. However, we have listened to the fact that there is a great deal of disquiet about this. It is very difficult to evidence better health outcomes’ Dr Tim Spicer, chair of H&F clinical commissioning ‘We are very concerned about these proposals. H&F will lose disproportionately more than other areas. The pace of change will be hectic and our concern is patient safety. What are the safeguards when 1,000 beds are lost out of 4,500?’ Dr David Wingfield, H&F GP ‘If we allow NHS bureaucrats to remove the A&Es from our local hospitals they will wither away and no longer be the hospitals we know today’ Carlo Nero, chairman of Save Our Hospitals campaign ‘The last time I went to A&E, I was seen within half an hour and had the treatment within four hours. GPs just don’t have resources to do that’ Hugh Lennon, 69, of Waterford Road, Fulham ‘It beggars belief that this will improve the health of H&F residents, and we will fight these NHS plans all the way’ Cllr Nicholas Botterill, H&F Council leader
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Keep your paws off our hospitals! That was the stark message from hundreds of residents who flocked to H&F Council’s public meeting on the future of local health care, writes Rob Mansfield
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F THEY had any doubts about the strength of feeling before, they certainly knew afterwards. NHS bosses watched as protestors chanted “Save Our Hospitals!” while a stretcher loaded with a 22,000-signature petition was wheeled in. More than 500 people had turned up to the council-organised public meeting at Hammersmith town hall to ensure health chiefs got the message that it is unacceptable to close both local casualty units. NHS North West London had proposed closing the A&E units at Charing Cross and Hammersmith hospitals, and shutting the hyperacute stroke unit at Charing Cross.
The NHS officials heard that: v GPs are not ready to take up the strain of A&E closures, which could put lives at risk v Ambulance journey times to overstretched out-of-borough A&Es would increase v An independent report from ex-NHS chief Tim Rideout had rubbished NHS NW London’s Shaping a Healthier Future proposals’ flawed methodology v If four out of nine A&Es closed (at Charing Cross, Hammersmith, Central Middlesex and Ealing) a population the size of Sheffield would lose a local casualty unit v The consultation led residents into giving misleading answers
v There is little evidence to back the ‘preferred’ NHS option. Residents bombarded NHS representatives with questions about ambulance journey times and fears that closures would lead to hospital land being sold off to developers. Following the heated meeting, H&F Council responded to the closure threat by describing the proposals as ‘unsafe’. “Ultimately this is a skewed consultation that does not offer a full picture of the current health service, or what is being proposed,” said H&F cabinet member. Read the council’s full response to the NHS plans at: www.lbhf.gov. uk/nhsnwlresponse
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Super sewer excavations threaten our lovely bridge As engineers worry that Hammersmith’s most iconic structure is under threat, Rob Mansfield reports Fulham residents could be forced to evacuate their homes
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HAMES Water’s plans to dig a massive sewer just yards from Hammersmith Bridge could force the iconic river crossing to close. The water company wants to drill part of its controversial Thames Tunnel ‘super sewer’ almost directly beneath the foundations of Hammersmith Bridge, which were laid in 1827. But Hammersmith & Fulham Council engineers have voiced concerns that the bridge could be permanently damaged if the ground is destabilised by the huge excavation works just yards away. Thames Water maps reveal that the mega-pipe, which will be as large as the Channel Tunnel, is expected to burrow just 75 feet below the foundations, before tunnelling underneath homes and businesses around Stamford Brook and surfacing at Acton storm tanks. If the ground settles, due to Thames Water’s works, the foundations of the Grade II listed bridge could be undermined, wreaking havoc if the crossing is forced to shut, H&F Council has warned.
The suspension bridge, which is a listed monument, closed in 1984 when the road surface fell by four inches. The bridge was also closed between 1997 and 2000 for major strengthening works, and is used by at least 12,500 vehicles a day. Cllr Nicholas Botterill, H&F Council leader, says: “We already understand the human misery that the super sewer will bring if it is not stopped, and now one of the borough’s most historic landmarks is also under threat. “Hammersmith Bridge is not just an iconic symbol of our borough, it is a major transport route. If it is forced to shut, because
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NEWS of Thames Water’s unnecessary super sewer, there will be hell to pay.” H&F Council has been a fierce critic of the super sewer and has been highlighting the cheaper, greener and less disruptive alternatives to the massive concrete pipe. These include sustainable urban drainage solutions – such as water butts, green roofs and permeable pavements – which conserve and recycle rainwater instead of letting it flood into the sewers, triggering pollution in the river. Fourteen million customers face paying an extra £100 a year for life, on top of current bills, to pay for the huge £4.1billion tunnel, Thames Water bosses have admitted. Thames Water also stands to make £162million a year in additional revenue from the sewer due to a ‘perverse incentive’ in the way the water industry is financed, according to national experts in water economics. Cllr Botterill added: “London’s historic landmarks are threatened by Thames Water’s white elephant of a scheme that appears to be more about cleaning out residents’ pockets than cleaning up the river.”
Fulham residents could face mass evacuation ahead of stink pipe work l THE super-sewer stinkpipe is set to force hundreds of south Fulham residents out of their homes in the biggest evacuation since the Second World War. Thames Water has admitted that the stink-pipe construction work, which involves the use of heavy machinery around the clock for seven years, could make life unbearable for residents – triggering a massive exodus from south Fulham. Thames Water’s Phil Stride revealed to the Evening Standard (October 16) that thousands of people in London could face being re-housed if the construction work for the £4.1billion tunnel is too disruptive. Residents living near Carnwath Road – including residents in the Piper Building and Philpot Square – face being relocated if the scheme gets the go-ahead in 2013.
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NO TUNNEL VISION: H&F Council leader Nicholas Botterill and a pupil from St Thomas of Canterbury primary school make their feelings known about Thames Water’s super sewer scheme, which could impact Hammersmith Bridge. Above left, the size of the tunnel that could be drilled under the borough
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Taster sessions run during half term week – come and try something new Family learning sessions
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NEWS
Eagle-eyed Viv wins the watchers’ award
Cottage set to raise matchday capacity by more than 4,000 fans
SHE’S THE TOP CRIME-BUSTER IN THE BOROUGH, WINNING A TROPHY FOR HER GOOD WORK, Writes ROB MANSFIELD
Plans to increase Craven Cottage’s capacity by 4,300 seats have got the green light. Home to Fulham FC since 1896, it currently holds 25,700 fans but can now expand to 30,000. The Riverside stand by the Thames will be partly demolished and extended to include a new upper tier to include four luxury flats. The club can remodel the western ends of the adjoining stands, install new seats and remove two floodlight masts. The riverside walk will be opened up on non-match days with the club making a £600,000 contribution to restore Bishops Park, plus £40,000 a year maintenance, and £60,000 for gates at the Stevenage Road park entrance.
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It’s time to apply for your child’s school If YOUR child was born between September 1 2008 and August 31 2009 they will be due to start in the reception class in primary H&F Mayor Belinda school from September Donovan (left), Met 2013... and now is the time Police borough to apply for a place. commander Lucy Applying online is or D’Orsi and ace and reliable. easy APPLY f , E s ONLIN watcher Viv James Go to www.lbhf.gov. school & easy! k uk/admissions. it’s quic There you will also find help and information on schools and the process. The deadline for primary applications school Fulham Camerata adult choir. Book, is set to be is January 15 2013. There are no formal auditions. performed at The The final deadline for All that is needed is Oratory School in secondary school enthusiasm. June next year. admissions is October “It’s always been Christopher, who sings 31 2012. our idea to start a baritone and teaches at youth choir,” said Lady Margaret School, RESULTS! Christopher. Parsons Green, is “We’ll sing musical director of the light songs, Fulham Camerata An action-packed children’s and the Fulham programme of half-term songs and and Hammersmith activities for the over-11s is classical Choral Society. now available. Events run from music.” Details at October 29 to November 3. A new www.fulham To see the whole programme, work, childrenschoir. go to: www.lbhf.gov.uk/fisd or based on com or by calling pick up the latest copy of h&f The Jungle 020 7736 2761. buzz newspaper in libraries.
Somewhere your little angels can sing A CHILDREN’S choir has been set up in Fulham, with voice coaching leading to a performance of a newly commissioned work based on Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. The Fulham Children’s Choir began rehearsing last month on Tuesdays, 5.156.30pm, at St Peter’s church, off Filmer Road, SW6. Choir directors Christopher Wray and Hermione Ruck Keene are encouraging boys and girls aged six to 13 to join, with the chance to perform in concerts, some alongside members of the
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More choices for local pupils as two free schools set to open EXTRA CAPACITY IS NEEDED TO MEET RISING DEMAND FOR PLACES IN COMING YEARS, WITH NEW FREE SCHOOLS POISED TO PLUG THE GAP, REPORTS LOUISE RAISEY
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Top, show of support for new Fulham all-boys CofE school. Left, Sophie Wade and sons Thomas, 6, left, and Charles, 5, back the plan
wo new free schools plan to open their doors in Hammersmith & Fulham in September 2013. A primary version of the popular West London Free School is planned in Cambridge Grove, Hammersmith, and a Church of England school for boys is planned for Fulham, although a specific site has yet to be agreed. The new schools will help meet the rapidly rising demand for school places in the borough. According to current projections, 1,643 children of primary school age will be
applying for reception places in 2013. There are currently 1,508 places available. Additional permanent and temporary ‘bulge’ places are currently being developed in schools where demand is greatest. These include St Stephen’s Primary School, Pope John Primary School and Burlington Danes Academy. Current data indicates that over the next few years a further three
additional forms of entry will be required in the north and two additional forms of entry will be required in the centre of the borough. H&F Council is one of the country’s leading supporters of free schools, with two up and running in the borough.
New courts represent a big net gain
World-class basketball and netball courts in Ravenscourt Park have been officially opened by former England international Steve Alexander. The new courts meet international standards and are west London’s most visible legacy of the London Olympics. The Ravenscourt Park facilities include an international-size basketball show court, new netball and basketball playing surfaces and brand new three-onthree basketball training and competition areas. Seating for spectators and landscaping around the courts
has also been improved. Ravenscourt Park is one of nine Green Flag parks in H&F – meaning that it is officially one of the best parks in the country. The park improvements work was done with the help and advice of the Friends of Ravenscourt Park. Friends organisations let residents sustain and enhance parks in partnership with local authorities. H&F cabinet member Greg Smith said: “I would like to thank the Friends of Ravenscourt Park for their assistance on this project.”
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Queensmill gets green light for new location l A NEW school for autistic pupils aged two to 18 will be built on the site of the former Askham Family Centre and Haven Respite Centre in Askham Road and Ollgar Close, Shepherds Bush. Queensmill School is expected to be finished in time for the start of term in September 2014.
Hammersmith free school has been given permission to transform a historic building into its new home. West London Free School, which is currently based in Cambridge Grove, Hammersmith, will turn Palingswick House in King Street into a new 4,300 square metre school for 600 pupils, aged 11-16. The decision on whether to allow plans for the building to change its use to a school, to renovate the building and build an adjoining block at the site was made at Hammersmith & Fulham Council’s planning applications committee on October 16. The application means two Victorian ‘buildings of merit’ – Palingswick House and the superintendent’s house, known as The Lodge – will now be fully refurbished. A four-storey building with a glass atrium, housing an assembly hall, kitchen and dining room and classrooms will also be built. The plans show 20 standard classrooms, six science laboratories, two art studios, two music rooms, a main hall, a library, rooms for central support staff and administration facilities at the scheme. Cllr Helen Binmore, H&F Council cabinet member for children’s services, said: “These plans are exciting and will provide yet another first-class school in the borough. “This council backs the need for parental choice in H&F and this approval means that not only are much-needed school places for children being provided but also that a historic piece of Hammersmith’s heritage will be preserved for future generations.” Proposals for the scheme have been presented at two council design review panels this year and changes suggested at those meetings appear in this revised plan. The outside games areas will
only be used from 8am to 6pm on weekdays and between 9am and 1pm on Saturdays. No school coaches or minibuses will be able to park, wait, load or unload passengers from or to Weltje Road. No work will begin until the current buildings are photographed and a historical record has been made of the site, for logging in the borough’s archives. A commemorative plaque with information about the property’s history will also be made and put up at the new school. The school’s founder, journalist Toby Young, said: “I’m delighted that the council has given planning consent to base our school at Palingswick House.
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“Not only have we secured a permanent home for the borough’s most over-subscribed secondary school, but we’re going to be restoring a beautiful, historic building in the process.” Palingswick House was built around 1849 as a grand family home, but over the years has been used as an orphanage and workhouse, the orphanage’s superintendent’s house, a school, children’s home, hostel for diabetic children and a community resource centre. West London Free School – which opened in September 2011 – hopes to open at the King Street address next September (2013), with an initial pupil role of 360. Each following year the number of pupils will increase by 120 until the capacity of 600 students is reached in 2015.
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LIBRARIES ROUND-UP If I manage to read 26 books a day for the next 80 years, I might make some dent in this pile! l RESIDENTS, workers and students can now gain access to more than a million books across 21 libraries thanks to the new One Library Card system. The council has teamed up with Westminster City Council and the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea to launch the scheme which means that residents now have access to libraries in all three boroughs. The move means that a oneyear-old, living to the average life expectancy of 81, would need to read at least 26 books every day for the rest of their lives if they wanted to get through the whole combined collection. The three councils agreed last year to combine the management of several of their departments, including libraries, to save tens of millions of pounds and protect frontline services. H&F Council leader Cllr Nicholas Botterill said: “This ‘library passport’ means that west London residents can now access more free books than they could ever have dreamed of.” JW
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OPPOSITION IS GROWING TO THE IDEA OF MAKING HEATHROW EVEN BIGGER, writes ROB MANSFIELD
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airport at Heathrow was taken more than 65 years ago at the end of the Second World War, and it is simply now in the wrong place. “Britain is an island and it makes no sense for thousands of planes to roar over densely populated areas where millions live when they could be making their final approach over water if the airport was closer to the coast.” H&F Council has consistently argued that a third runway, or any other form of expansion, at Heathrow would bring extra noise hell for residents, more air pollution, put further pressure on overstretched roads and public transport in the area, and yet would still not create a fit-forpurpose hub airport. The council will be submitting a response to the consultation, but is
also encouraging residents affected after H&F Council and a coalition by aircraft noise to email: aviation. of other local authorities challenged policyframework@dft.gov.uk the plans. Ninety-three per cent of by October 31. local residents said they were “A pint-sized extra runway against Heathrow expansion in a at Heathrow would do council poll of more than 4,000 little to improve people in 2008. COMPUTER Britain’s economic Meanwhile, complaints SAYS NO... HEATHROW BOSSES prospects but would over increased aircraft noise CAN’t RESPOND allow a big increase in – due to a new runway trial at TO EMAILS SEE PAGE 53 aircraft noise by Heathrow – are soaring. introducing yet another Residents are voicing concern flightpath over our heads.” over BAA’s Operational If a third runway is built, the Freedoms, which allows the flight numbers could rocket from simultaneous use of runways in the current limit of 480,000 to special circumstances. 702,000 by 2030 – equivalent to l Residents can respond directly building a new Gatwick in the most to BAA so concerns are formally densely populated part of the UK. logged. Visit: www.heathrow Plans for the expansion of airport.com/noise, call 0800 344 Heathrow were thrown out by a 844 or email: noise_complaints@ High Court judge in March 2010 baa.com
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Have you ever thought about fostering? You could make a real difference to a child’s life. We are looking for foster carers who have the time, energy and space to look after sibling groups. Daniela da Costa, one of Hammersmith & Fulham Council’s fostering officers, explained: “We have a number of sibling groups who come into care, and wherever possible we try to keep them together. We need people with spare bedrooms, and that’s often a problem in inner London.” She said that a sibling group of two is often difficult to place locally, “but when it’s three or four, it’s quite a challenge to place them together, unless people have a couple of spare bedrooms”. “The intention being, not to disrupt education patterns if at all possible, as the children have already had disruption in their home lives and daily routines’. “They may have been in very vulnerable situations, so separating siblings is the last thing we want to do.” Children are generally placed in short term placements while options are explored as to the best long term plan for the child. “Ideally we try
to place children within the extended family or friendship network, if they cannot return home to their birth parents. However, if this is not possible and if adoption is not an option for the child, then we need a longer-term foster family to care for the child until they are 18 years old. Foster children who are under three years old can sleep in the foster carers bedroom. Every child over the age of three should ideally have their own bedroom. While sibling groups can share bedrooms depending on their age, gender, experiences and of course the bedroom size; looked after children should not share a bedroom with the foster carer’s own children. “We’re looking for foster carers who can provide a stable, loving and supportive home to sibling groups. We also need foster carers who can provide a home to teenagers, children with disabilities and young mothers with their babies. “We’re hoping our residents, may be able to help us to achieve this goal” The London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham, The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster City Council joined their fostering services in April 2012 to provide a dedicated service for fostering across the three west London local authorities. It has led to the net being cast wider in the search for homes to place vulnerable children and young people.
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I’ll give you a cocktail shaker for that electric foot-warmer FACE-TO-FACE SWAPSHOP ADDS A NEW DIMENSION TO THE COMMUNITY RECYCLING PROJECT WHICH BEGAN IN h&f, Writes TIM HARRISON
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OMMUNITY sharing group Streetbank has staged a face-toface swapshop in the borough where the concept began. Nearly 100 people got together at the Hop Poles pub in King Street, Hammersmith, last month for a ‘live’ version of the online service which aims to build neighbourliness and find new homes for unwanted goods. Items exchanged included a television, a new iPad cover, a cocktail shaker, dresses, books, freshly-baked meringues, clothes, an unused computer keyboard, candle holders, and that must-have
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accessory – an electric footwarmer. “It’s the beginning of what we hope will be a close and ongoing relationship with H&F Council,” said Streetbank Live organiser Tess Riley. “Streetbank is a tool to help communities live happier, less costly, more environmentally friendly lives, and we want councils to make the most of us, to help their residents.” The council has already thrown its support behind Streetbank, welcoming founder Sam Stephens’ creation of the website, in the bedroom of his Fulham Palace Road home in 2010. After the first live swap event (which was also supported by groups including Abundance, Transition Chiswick, Project Dirt and BlaBlaCar), organiser Tess added: “The council has been brilliant in recognising the benefits Streetbank can offer the community, and we believe this is a superb blueprint for the kind of work we aim to be doing across the UK soon.” Streetbank Live was aimed at borough residents, where the biggest concentration of members live. Of the 17,000 people who are registered, 4,000 have addresses in west London. Another event is planned for early in 2013. It is calculated that the average Streetbank member in Fulham SW6 has between 400 and 780 fellow members living within a square mile. Early deals done via Streetbank included lending lawnmowers, giving away surplus DVDs, offering music lessons and combining to help elderly people with gardening. l Visit: www.streetbank.com to register and find out what neighbours are offering.
Gloves on, let’s garden in Ravenscourt Park l SPARE a couple of hours to beautify and maintain the delightful Ravenscourt Park walled garden? A chance to dig in looms, and volunteers are welcome – experienced gardeners or otherwise. On November 10 the Friends of the Walled Garden put on gloves (and wellies) to start getting the beds ready for winter. “We usually get 10 people turning up to weed, prune, or do what needs doing,” said Angela Clarke, founder of the Friends.
“We’ll be preparing the garden for the winter, but the actual tasks will depend on the weather.” Part of the plan is to divide herbaceous plants and plant new bulbs for next spring. Gardeners gather at 10.30am for a two-hour session with a break for drinks and a chat. “Everyone is welcome,” added Angela. “We have plenty of tools, and we can show anyone what to do; you don’t need to have any gardening experience.” Volunteer gardening sessions are usually held on the first Saturday of the month, but
November’s has been pushed back so it doesn’t clash with the park’s fireworks display. The friends were set up in 2002 by the Ravenscourt Society and H&F Council. The traditional Victorian-style garden was once the fruit and veg-growing area of Ravenscourt, a mansion destroyed by bombs in the Second World War. If you can’t make November’s gardening morning, the next will be a debris-tidying session at 10.30am on December 1. More information at www. ravenscourtgarden.btck.co.uk TH
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Our blooming marvellous parks win top award... THE BOROUGH IS BLESSED WITH SOME OF THE LOVELIEST GREEN SPACES IN THE CAPITAL, WITH KEEP BRITAIN TIDY OFFICIALLY RECOGNISING THEIR BEAUTY , writes JON WEISGARD
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AMMERSMITH & Fulham has nine of the best parks and open spaces in the country – and that’s official! The parks have all been honoured with Green Flag awards by Keep Britain Tidy. Ravenscourt Park, Frank Banfield Park and Margravine Cemetery have been awarded Green Flag status for the fourth year in a row. Normand Park has won the coveted honour for the third year while St Peter’s Square in Hammersmith has collected a Green Flag award for the second time. In addition, Hammersmith Park, Hurlingham Park, South Park and Norland North on the Edward Woods estate have all won their maiden green flags.
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The council has recently spent £177,000 improving the play area at the park beside Peterborough Road, Fulham. New facilities include a timber climbing nest and rock walls, a shipwreck for children to climb on, a zip wire, a reflection pool and a sand pit.
Hammersmith Park
Hammersmith Park’s historic Japanese Garden, reputed to be one of the oldest Japanese gardens in a public park in the country, has recently been refurbished with a new Orientalthemed natural and adventurous play trail created across the whole site. The park is also set to benefit from a new five-a-side football centre.
Norland North
The 2004 major regeneration of Edward Woods estate resulted in the creation of this well-loved public park which includes a multi-use games area and a mini wildlife garden.
St Peter’s Square
One of the smallest, but one of the most historically significant, open spaces in the borough, the St Peter’s garden square is the only Grade II listed public open space in the borough.
Ravenscourt Park
In the heart of Hammersmith lies a scenic green space with tennis courts, basketball court, bowling green, lake, a cafe and a beautiful walled rose garden. The refurbished and improved outdoor basketball and netball courts being built at Ravenscourt Park are set to become west London’s most visible legacy of the London Olympic Games.
Frank Banfield Park
Frank Banfield Park in Hammersmith has also seen major transformation recently and was officially reopened in October 2008. It boasts a brand new children’s play area, attractive new landscaping, improved railings and gates and new benches.
Hurlingham Park
Also in Fulham, Hurlingham Park has undergone a transformation in recent years and now hosts the hugely popular annual Polo in the Park competition.
Normand Park
Following a £3 million improvement project in 2008, this park features a larger and improved play area with outside table tennis tables, climbing walls, ball games area, wildflower planting, sand pit, and an informal play area with grass, trees and balancing beams. There is also a BMX practice area and a community garden area.
Margravine Cemetery
Long-regarded as one of the borough’s most beautiful open spaces, this cemetery was opened in 1869 and has seen 83,000 burials. A focus on increasing biodiversity is proving popular to a variety of visitors – the rich variety of trees attract at least 25 bird species, including great spotted woodpeckers, long-tailed tits and goldfinches.
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Far left, Cllr Greg Smith enjoys the Ravenscourt Park colours with park friends and the tranquillity of Normand Park. Clockwise this page, Brook Green, Wendell Park, Shepherds Bush Green, Lillie Road and Eel Brook Common
...as four parks are set for upgrades SHEPHERDS BUSH GREEN ALSO SET TO RE-OPEN NEXT MONTH AFTER £3m OF WORK. JON WEISGARD RINGS THE CHANGES
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he refurbished Shepherds Bush Green is due to open next month, and several other parks are to get new play equipment. Shepherds Bush Green has been given a £3million facelift which will include two new playgrounds, with swings and slides, a sandpit with mechanical diggers, an 18ft space net, climbing walls and roundabouts. The footpath and cycle network have been improved to better reflect the paths that cyclists and pedestrians are likely to take, with pathways widened and a
tree-lined avenue providing an attractive walking route around the Green. In addition, the Grade II-listed war memorial has been reset on to a new granite stepped plinth. The new adventure playground at Brook Green, Hammersmith, is now complete and includes a slide, a sandpit, swings, bouncy animals and several wooden play houses. The council has spent in excess of £100,000 improving the green space, with the Friends of Brook Green contributing a similar amount. In addition to these KEEP READING>> schemes, the council THE HISTORY OF is currently installing WORMHOLT PARK new adventurous and REVEALED! natural play equipment at SEE PAGES 34-35 Wendell Park in Shepherds Bush, Lillie Road recreation ground in Fulham and Eel Brook Common in Fulham. Work on all three schemes will be completed before the end of the year at a combined cost of £200,000.
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Century-old public park had slithery beginnings It might have been named Oaklands Park or Sawley Road Park, but in 1911 councillors decided on ‘Wormholt’. Tim Harrison browses through a new history of the popular space
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T BEGAN life as a snakeinfested forest, but today it is one of the most popular open spaces in the borough. The distinctive name of Wormholt Park in Shepherds Bush comes from the Old English Wyrm (snake) and Holt (wood), suggesting a slithery ancient past for this wellused recreation area. To mark the centenary of the park’s formal opening, Peter Trott – who lives round the corner in Thorpebank Road – has produced a delightful little history, illustrated with photos, maps and posters of park events down the years, including sports days, concerts... and an intriguing wartime role. Peter, who works at the Museum of Fulham Palace, was approached by the Friends of Wormholt Park to produce the book after members had admired his local history
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displays at area street parties. “When the park’s centenary was being celebrated in 2011, I appealed for anyone with photos or memories to come forward, and little by little it happened,” he said. “There are also a few reminiscences in the book.” Internet appeals also unearthed photographs from family albums, resulting in a well-illustrated 32-page volume, available via www. friendsofwormholtpark. org.uk at £3.50, with proceeds supporting the friends’ group. Formally launched at a party at the Hummingbird Cafe in Oaklands Grove, Shepherds Bush, with sponsorship by Winkworth estate agents, the book Wormholt Park, The First Hundred Years celebrates a rich
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Main picture, Wormholt Park in the sun. Far left, Sawley Road entrance in the 1920s. Left, Hammersmith mayor Alderman John Rooke bowls the first wood in 1936. Below, centenarian Peggy Aslett, right, and Cllr Frances Stainton at the 2011 centenary
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l Peter Trott, 62, walked tradition of overspill through Wormholt Park to fairs, galas, mortuary. It Christopher Wren School (now festivals, reopened as an Phoenix High) every day from sports days open air pool at 1961-67. The Thorpebank and events the end of the war, Road resident gathered down the years but closed in 1979 conkers in the on the eight-acre when it was replaced park as a boy space. by indoor swimming. Peter’s research In the 1980s, Wormholt has uncovered many Park became a television star gems. When councillors were in its own right when it was used as first casting about for a name, the backdrop for several episodes of they also agonised over Old Oak the BBC’s Grange Hill. Park, Oaklands Park and even Among the reminiscences Sawley Road Park, before deciding quoted in Peter’s book are those of on the name we know today. resident Penny Nagle, who moved By the Second World War the to the area in the late 1990s. park boasted a lido, bandstand and “We always loved the trees, flat bowling green, then shelter trenches space and open sky,” she said. were dug to offer residents some “It’s rare in London to have this protection from bomb attacks, and much green on your doorstep, and the northern section of the park was I loved it. The cricket nets were dug up for allotments, to help the working, and in the long summer home food-growing effort. nights lots of kids would come to The park’s swimming pool play cricket. The tennis courts even (affectionately nicknamed The had real nets!” Blom) assumed a more grisly Disheartened by an increase in wartime role – as a makeshift rubbish and dog mess in her local
park, she helped set up the Friends of Wormholt Park to campaign for improvements. The group now has more than 200 members… and is likely to pick up other followers as a result of the book.
Peter, 62, aims to devote more of his time to local history research in future. “As and when I retire, I hope to write more,” he said. “I’ve been researching Shepherds Bush and doing other research.”
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Crime rates fall again as streets get safer
COUNCIL-FUNDED TOWN CENTRE POLICE TEAMS CONTRIBUTES TO DRAMATIC REDUCTION IN CRIME IN THE BOROUGH, Writes rob mansfield
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HE streets of Hammersmith & Fulham are getting safer with 489 fewer crimes recorded over the last six months. There were 11,504 crimes in the borough from April to September – which is 4.1 per cent down on last year when there were 11,993 crimes over the same six months. If the decrease is maintained for the rest of the year it would be one of the best crime performances locally since records began – and would mean that crime rates will have fallen for all but one of the past eight years in the borough. The breakdown of the stats reveals that residential burglary fell by 22 per cent – the second biggest reduction in London. H&F Council is spending £1.3million a year for three enhanced town centre squads of beat police, with local firms adding an extra £350,000 a year.
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The additional cash means the borough has 44 extra police officers. H&F Council’s deputy leader Greg Smith said: “The police and council are working extremely hard to drive down crime day in, day out. Crime continues to fall and has actually fallen for six years out of seven – partly due to the council’s funding of 44 extra beat police officers. “Combined with other measures – such as the council’s neighbourhood wardens, various dispersal zones and the blanket ban on street drinking – H&F is becoming one of the safest boroughs in London. This is further proof, if any were needed, that zero-tolerance policing works.” As part of a new approach this year the police and council are inviting residents to ward-based meetings which target crime on a very local level. The scheme started in
BY THE NUMBErS CRIME FALLS Gun crime Down 39% (10 fewer offences) Knife crime Down 43% (71 fewer offences) Grievous bodily harm Down 25% (from 97 offences to 72) Crimes with an offensive weapon Down 18%
Fulham’s Munster ward in June and the next event will be in Addison ward next month. The ‘How are we doing on crime?’ roadshows see senior police and council officials tour the borough to hear directly from residents. The events are supported by the Mayor’s Office for Policing and the borough’s Neighbourhood Watch Association. “By listening more closely to
Robberies Down 13% (from 392 to 342) Vehicle theft Down 20% All theft Down 5% Criminal damage Down 18% (164 fewer offences) BURGLARY Down 22% (187 fewer offences)
residents, who often have useful intelligence to share, we are able to better understand the causes of crime spikes and target the criminal minority more speedily,” Cllr Smith added. l The next ‘How are we doing on crime?’ roadshow in Addison ward takes place at Addison Primary School, Addison Gardens, W14 0DT on Wednesday, November 7, from 7pm. Read more at: www.lbhf.gov.uk/crime
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A prime burger and a glass of pale... perfect!
Flavoured tonic waters and exclusive ales have helped a landmark Hammersmith pub reinvent itself. Tim Harrison reports
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ESTORED, revamped and reinvigorated after a major makeover, a historic west London local boasts one beer it can truly call its own. Hammersmith’s Thatched House, on the edge of Brackenbury Village, is the only boozer in the land to stock Sambrook’s Thatched House pale ale, a foamy, fruity, hoppy brew which is carbonated, cooled and passed through floral hops. Unfiltered and unpasteurised, it’s a refreshing hybrid with the thirst-quenching power of a good lager and the taste of a great bitter. It’s one innovation at a pub which seems to have been casting around for its identity for years, and now appears to have found it under the stewardship of Osh Rogers (the landlord with the Midas touch at The Ship in Wandsworth) and Phil White. Modern food – well thought out, well-prepared – mixes with
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London pub traditions to create a friendly, upbeat local at the road branch in Dalling Road, with mix ’n’ match furniture, comfy zones, grandma’s kitchen tables, chalkboard price lists, and discreet rather than dominant TV screens, A Youngs house, the pub also specialises in gin (the Sipsmith distillery is a short stumble away) with its own house infused tonics, ranging from earl grey and coriander to kaffir lime and basil. Built in 1832, the pub has been remodelled at the back to create a light, airy dining area, while fold-back doors open on to outdoor ‘rooms’ The Ship chef Shaun Harrington oversees the menu while Belgian kitchen wizard Medhi Jeanjean conjures up Sipsmith gin-cured salmon (immersed in dry gin and sloe gin for 36 hours), signature-dish Angus beef burgers (£11 and simply superb) and runny-yolk Scotch eggs.
I’d already been tipped off about the burgers. Now you could argue that a burger is a burger, but you’d be completely missing the point. Contrasting a properly cooked, top-quality meat burger with a fast-food version is like comparing a magnificent caesar salad with some leaves of limp lettuce. The Thatched House version is no ordinary burger. It’s made with top-grade meat for one thing, and its construction demands architectural skills and culinary love. “I’m committed to running the Thatched House for at least the next three years, and my reputation hangs on this,” said Osh, who began his long pub career as a teenager pulling pints at the Stag’s Head – a ‘time capsule’ Victorian gem in the heart of Dublin. “The Thatched House is a
great opportunity,” he said. “The feedback has been good, the locals like it, the bloggers like it, and I’m confident that, with Young’s backing, it’ll do well.” In his early 20s, Osh moved to London and took over the now-defunct Magpie & Stump in
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WINE & DINE LALA >> HAMMERSMITH W6
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It’s beyond the pale as landlord Osh Rogers pours a pint at the Thatched House, with its intriguing clutch of furniture
King’s Road, Chelsea, before moving to the Man in the Moon in the mid-90s. Mindful of the way Osh had stamped his personality on the Ship, Young’s asked him to take Thatched House under his wing. He is rising to the challenge. “I have the full support of the brewery, and Phil and I have worked together for a long time,” said Osh, who is patiently building an enthusiastic core of regulars. “I want people to know we’re running it well, and looking after the heritage and the business.” The new-style pale ale is, insists Phil, a good example of
blending tradition and modernity. “We want people to move from lager to this; we don’t want people to move from bitter to this,” he said. “It’s converted a lot of people!” Though popular as a summer pub, you suspect the Thatched House will really come into its own with a winter atmosphere, when drinkers can perch on sofas in front of roaring fires – a welcoming sight as you enter. By focusing on food and friendly service as well as good beers, the pub is pulling in a new crowd, attracted by the look and the buzz. Stand by for a lively pub quiz, starting shortly. l The Thatched House, 115 Dalling Road, W6. Call 020 8748 6174 or visit: www.thatchedhouse.com
T’S easy to forget that Hammersmith has some of the best people-watching perches in the capital. One is Lala, just across the road from the tube station, where you can sit and watch the ever-changing gyratory whirl. You calmly tuck into your hearty Mediterranean/Cypriot/ Turkish food while everyone else scurries to and fro. With everything cooked in full view, at an open kitchen at the back, there’s a sense of theatre to Lala, now very much its own place having shaken off memories of its old incarnation, Bar 38. Lala has two interlocking ground-floor zones (there’s a colossal basement area too) – the lounge bar section, and the 80-seat restaurant. By mixing and matching you can construct a light lunch or early-evening meal, a pleasant savoury afternoon meze graze including grilled halloumi cheese and flavoursome hummus, or settle in to pace yourself through dinner while marvelling at the number of emergency vehicles with flashing blue lights circulating round the one-way system. The two-course set lunch is £13.90, and might include a main course of beef stifado; tender chunks of meat in a rich, reduced gravy and served with a mound of cous cous. Other options include pan-fried grey mullet, roast chicken and slice lamb leg.
Turkish Mediterranean cuisine is hearty and meatorientated, although the starters are light, often vegetarian and eminently shareable. With 12 of the 14 main dish choices either meat or fish, there is a clear overall weighting towards carnivores. And the meat is excellent. My dining partner and I shared the mixed grill platter (£32.50 for two), a monumental salute to meaty flavours, including lamb brochette (herb-infused cubes of meat) and a chicken skewer. Also on the platter, grilled tiger prawns marinated in spicy lime, lamb adana (minced lamb grilled on a skewer), chips and a salad. Everything is prepared on the flaming open oven at the heart of the kitchen, topped by a giant extractor to remove the barbecue smoke. The service is brisk and amiable, there is plenty of elbow-room, the lighting is atmospheric and the walls are dotted with triffid-like towering flower arrangements. There’s a good mix of New World and European wines, with by-the-glass options. All in all, Lala is a hale and hearty town centre dining option for Hammersmith; a place that comes into its own now that there’s an autumn chill in the air. Tim Harrison l Lala is located at 2 Queen Caroline Street, W6. 020 8600 0200 or visit: www.lalaw6.com
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A cucumber sandwich? l ARRANGING the table for the perfect tea party isn’t something that just happens; it requires a lot of thought and care. Thankfully Lulu Gwynne rides to the rescue with a book about creating settings, cutting perfect sandwiches, designing invitations, mixing cocktails, making bunting and dressing in an appropriately vintage style. Published at £9.99 by Pavilion, it is as much about classic 50s etiquette as how to bake scones. Tim Harrison
Lulu Gwynne avoids plastic decor in the smart location for her new society at The Antique Chair and, above, poses with daughter Ralphine, one PICTURES BY JUSTIN THOMAS
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A Local mum launches an oldfashioned society in a Fulham pub for fellow highchair users... because all the alternatives are simply too grim. Magda Ibrahim becomes an honorary member for the day
S MOST parents can testify, finding somewhere to spend a few hours that doesn’t involve a sea of primary-coloured plastic or an assault course of tables and frowning clientele can be nigh-on impossible. It was with this mission in mind that Lulu Gwynne began to develop The Antique Chair, in Lillie Road, Fulham. “I love the creative side of bringing people together and I always had a long-term idea of a child-orientated venue,” says the 34-year-old, who also runs the Betty Blythe 1920s tea shop in Brook Green. “I don’t want to sit in a grubby place just because I have a child.” The grand old pub, looking down on the antiques shops of Munster Road and Fulham Cross, has been transformed into a home of vintage chic, with a firm eye on family fun.
Combining her love of all things vintage with a desire to create a haven for parents has been “wonderful”, adds Lulu, who also has a book – Style Me Vintage: Tea parties, a Guide to Hosting Perfect Vintage Events – just out (see above). Formerly The Chancery sports bar, the Punch Taverns-owned pub reopened at the end of June after a makeover that saw its pool room turned into an artisan delicatessen and the cavernous main bar filled with cute antique knick-knacks. The huge split-level garden has an area dedicated to children, with a treasure chest filled with toys, two tabletop sand pits and a wooden playhouse. For Lulu, who also runs The Pear Tree in Margravine Road, Hammersmith, with partner Darren Seager, the pub’s development coincided with her own experiences as a first-time mother. Daughter Ralphine turned one
in September, and Lulu says she wants to “bring a new dimension to going out for the afternoon”. The Highchair Society was launched at the pub in September, as a place for mums and babies to gather every Wednesday afternoon, with beauty treatments, style advice, arts and crafts, cake decorating and guest speakers. “It is meant to be a tongue-incheek, old-fashioned society,” explains Lulu. “I just want to have fun with it because there are lots of lovely groups out there, but they
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are all very child-focused. This is meant to be a gathering where people can share ideas, perhaps put up a stall of goodies, network and enjoy themselves. Just because we have had children doesn’t mean we have put our ambitions and creative side on hold.” The idea of making The Antique Chair a meeting place for the local community is a theme which runs through Lulu and Darren’s revamp. The team has been working closely with St Alban’s, Fulham, since taking over the Pear Tree lease in 2009, and Lulu hopes to develop links with local charities and groups. Meanwhile, details that include emergency supplies of nappies in the baby-changing room, feeding spoons and spare baby food mean child crises can be easily averted. “I hope it feels like a home from home,” adds Lulu. l To find out more about The Antique Chair email: peekaboo@ highchairsociety.com
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FOOD & DRINK
A cucumber sandwich? l ARRANGING the table for the perfect tea party isn’t something that just happens; it requires a lot of thought and care. Thankfully Lulu Gwynne rides to the rescue with a book about creating settings, cutting perfect sandwiches, designing invitations, mixing cocktails, making bunting and dressing in an appropriately vintage style. Published at £9.99 by Pavilion, it is as much about classic 50s etiquette as how to bake scones. Tim Harrison
Lulu Gwynne avoids plastic decor in the smart location for her new society at The Antique Chair and, above, poses with daughter Ralphine, one PICTURES BY JUSTIN THOMAS
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A Local mum launches an oldfashioned society in a Fulham pub for fellow highchair users... because all the alternatives are simply too grim. Magda Ibrahim becomes an honorary member for the day
S MOST parents can testify, finding somewhere to spend a few hours that doesn’t involve a sea of primary-coloured plastic or an assault course of tables and frowning clientele can be nigh-on impossible. It was with this mission in mind that Lulu Gwynne began to develop The Antique Chair, in Lillie Road, Fulham. “I love the creative side of bringing people together and I always had a long-term idea of a child-orientated venue,” says the 34-year-old, who also runs the Betty Blythe 1920s tea shop in Brook Green. “I don’t want to sit in a grubby place just because I have a child.” The grand old pub, looking down on the antiques shops of Munster Road and Fulham Cross, has been transformed into a home of vintage chic, with a firm eye on family fun.
Combining her love of all things vintage with a desire to create a haven for parents has been “wonderful”, adds Lulu, who also has a book – Style Me Vintage: Tea parties, a Guide to Hosting Perfect Vintage Events – just out (see above). Formerly The Chancery sports bar, the Punch Taverns-owned pub reopened at the end of June after a makeover that saw its pool room turned into an artisan delicatessen and the cavernous main bar filled with cute antique knick-knacks. The huge split-level garden has an area dedicated to children, with a treasure chest filled with toys, two tabletop sand pits and a wooden playhouse. For Lulu, who also runs The Pear Tree in Margravine Road, Hammersmith, with partner Darren Seager, the pub’s development coincided with her own experiences as a first-time mother. Daughter Ralphine turned one
in September, and Lulu says she wants to “bring a new dimension to going out for the afternoon”. The Highchair Society was launched at the pub in September, as a place for mums and babies to gather every Wednesday afternoon, with beauty treatments, style advice, arts and crafts, cake decorating and guest speakers. “It is meant to be a tongue-incheek, old-fashioned society,” explains Lulu. “I just want to have fun with it because there are lots of lovely groups out there, but they
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The pub is meant to be a tongue-incheek, old-fashioned society...
are all very child-focused. This is meant to be a gathering where people can share ideas, perhaps put up a stall of goodies, network and enjoy themselves. Just because we have had children doesn’t mean we have put our ambitions and creative side on hold.” The idea of making The Antique Chair a meeting place for the local community is a theme which runs through Lulu and Darren’s revamp. The team has been working closely with St Alban’s, Fulham, since taking over the Pear Tree lease in 2009, and Lulu hopes to develop links with local charities and groups. Meanwhile, details that include emergency supplies of nappies in the baby-changing room, feeding spoons and spare baby food mean child crises can be easily averted. “I hope it feels like a home from home,” adds Lulu. l To find out more about The Antique Chair email: peekaboo@ highchairsociety.com
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ARTS
Elms are missing from Lyric tragedy THEATRE REVIEW
THE ACTING IS GOOD, THE DIRECTION IS FINE... BUT THE SET USED IN THE LYRIC’S LATEST CLASSIC REVIVAL IS A DISTRACTION, Writes tim harrison Wily new arrival Abbie Putnam (Denise Gough) flirts with stepson Eben Cabot (Morgan Watkins) while, inset, the locals party PICTURES BY KEITH PATTISON
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l LYRIC artistic director Sean Holmes’ first panto runs from Nov 24 to Jan 5, featuring Steven Webb (a superb Wishy Washy in last year’s Aladdin). Box office: 020 8741 6850.
SALAD DAYS
l ONE of the most popular musical comedies of all time is revived at Hammersmith’s Riverside Studios, from Dec 20 to Mar 2. Book on 020 8237 1111.
CHAPEL STREET
l A NEW comedy by Luke Barnes runs at the Bush Theatre (020 8743 5050) from Nov 7-22, taking a wry look at life and love on the dole in Britain today.
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WO of the main characters in Eugene O’Neill’s rural American tragedy Desire Under the Elms are absent from Sean Holmes’ current revival of the 1924 drama at Hammersmith’s Lyric. O’Neill set great store by the pair of giant, sinister, brooding trees in the play’s title, trees planted – we presume – by early New England settlers 200 years before. They are supposed to dominate the stage either side of Ephraim Cabot’s farmstead, with O’Neill likening them to ‘exhausted women resting their sagging breasts and hands and hair on its roof’. Holmes instead stages the drama under what looks like a large kitchen extractor fan, with the different scenes wheeled on and off in mobile pods, entering and leaving the performance space in the half-light. Sometimes it works. When two bedrooms are pushed on, then pushed apart, it echoes the message in the scene itself. At other times, however, the choreographed pod switching breaks the tension. Set in 1850, the play is a Greek tragedy transplanted to 19th century rural USA, with everyone chirruping ‘Ay-eh’ at regular intervals, as a kind of multi-purpose greeting and affirmation. Morgan Watkins and Denise Gough (pictured) play the central characters, Eben Cabot and Abbie Putnam
– with Gough in particular turning in a passionate performance. This is partly a play about age differences and consequent assumptions. Eben is 25, his father 75, his new bride Abbie, 35. It is no great surprise that Eben and Abbie feel more for each other than old Ephraim (Finbar Lynch) feels for his young wife – a fact picked up and gossiped about by others in the tight, rustic community. After his two half-brothers (played by Mikel Murfi and Fergus O’Donnell) have left to seek their fortune in California, Eben and Abbie’s clandestine relationship flourishes behind old Ephraim’s back, and produces a child. The tragedy twists and develops. Yet, after all the patient build-up and character construction of the first half, the ending rushes by with indecent haste. The sheriff (Jim Creighton) arrives, brandishing a
handgun, gazes around and describes the farm as ‘jim-dandy’ before wishing he could have owned it. Having watched the extended Cabot family self-destruct, the audience greets his statement with hollow laughter at the final blackout. The original script can be almost impenetrable at times, with the ‘Pilgrim fathers’ accent dominating, and Holmes has wisely watered down the accents to make them more readily understood. Overall, it’s a fine work, with powerfully painted characters and a heavy sense of dread running through it. But the staging distracts rather than enhances. Another small point. The men in the play are forever putting on and taking off trousers fitted with zips, a boon not developed for at least half a century after the play’s time setting.
Desire lms e d Un r the E c until ri y L runs at the er 10. Novemb .50 -£35. Tickets £12 ce: Box offi 850 or 020 8741 6.lyric. visit www co.uk
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HIP HOP YOU DON’T STOP
Rap superstar Tinchy Stryder. Inset left, Brooklyn rapper Nas in mid-flow at Under the Bridge
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FULHAM’S HOT NEW VENUE – UNDER THE BRIDGE – JUST CAN’T HELP BRINGING THE BIGGEST NAMES IN RAP TO SW6, Writes GEOFF COWART l BURIED deep in Fulham is one of the most exciting new venues in London. Under the Bridge, which sits just behind Chelsea FC’s Stamford Bridge home, has scored yet another coup in attracting young London rap star Tinchy Stryder to perform on Thursday, November 1. For one night only, East London rapper Tinchy (right) will perform past hits as well as showcase exclusive new material from his forthcoming studio album. The appearance comes just weeks after the club signed up Brooklyn rap legend Nas to perform an intimate gig at the 550-person capacity venue (pictured above). In just over a year, the club has also put on gigs by musical legends Rufus Wainwright and Dr John, as well as FulhamFest and BluesFest. For times, tickets or details, visit: www.underthebridge.co.uk
In reel time at Riverside Studios’ film festival
Celebrating new writers at Bush Theatre means you can discover something unique
l A THREE-day film festival opens at Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, on November 2. The event, which celebrates British and Filipino culture, launches with a short film entitled Senility, followed by a feature-length film, Trespassers. One high point is a comedy (see poster) about filmmaking entitled Ang Babae sa Septic Tank (The Woman in the Septic Tank), a 90-minute movie by Marlon Rivera. The film festival, Reel Gate, mixes drama and documentary entries. Box office: 020 8237 1111.
l NOVEMBER is new writers’ month at the Bush Theatre, Uxbridge Road, with a three-week festival of fresh drama under the title Radar 2012. Shows include Chewing Gum Dreams by Michaela Coel, The Looking Screen by Anne Chmelewsky, Boy in a Dress by La John Joseph and Illusions by Ivan Virapaev. “I wanted to explore what makes us unique, and examine the big questions in new writing
today,” said artistic director Madani Younis. A low-price ticketing policy makes the Bush as accessible as possible, with multi-buy discounts and £10 tickets for those aged 26 or under. Chewing Gum Dreams is a one-woman show focusing on the last days of innocence before adulthood. Boy in a Dress, directed by Sarah Chew is a remarkable true story. Book online at: www.bushtheatre.co.uk
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ARTS ROUND-UP HH is back, sharing the stage with a giant-size sausage
l FUNNYMAN Harry Hill is
Book festival at Brook Green will be a real page-turner l BOOKWORMS eagerly await the fifth Brook Green Festival of Books, which opens on Monday October 29, to ‘engage, provoke and amuse’. Founded in 2008 by the Rev Terry Tastard (pictured) of Holy Trinity, past festivals have attracted literary heavyweights such as PD James, William Fiennes and Sebastian Faulks. The event launches with an evening with War Horse creator Michael Morpurgo at the Bush Theatre on the 29th. Kate Summerscale, author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, is at the Bush on November 5, while the following evening, novelist Andrew Miller will field questions. Other author events are being staged in the Holy Trinity parish hall. For more details, visit: www.brookgreenfestival.org TH
back on stage for the first time in six years with his Sausage Time show at Hammersmith Apollo from March 26. The floppycollared comic promises proof God exists... as well as battling an outsize banger. Tickets from £30 via: www. hammersmithapollo.com
Sgt Pepper goes under the hammer l A distinctive 1960s
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collage by Hammersmith pop artist Sir Peter Blake is coming under the hammer at Sotheby’s.
The artwork, which was printed and included in the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band LP, is believed to be the only surviving original piece of art from the landmark album. The auction house, which will be selling the collage on November 13 as part of a modern and post-war British art evening sale, estimates it could fetch between £50,000 and £80,000. Sgt Pepper, released in 1967, was one of the bestselling albums of all time. Critic Ken Tynan called it “a decisive moment in western civilisation”. James Rawlin of Sotheby’s said: “Sir Peter’s collage is a tangible slice of rock history. Sgt Pepper had a huge impact on the cultural landscape. It was the first concept album, when music, story, image and studio expertise all came together.” Sir Peter remains one of the most active artists in west London, working from a studio near the centre of Hammersmith. THTim Harrison
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N ARTY Shepherds Bush studio has celebrated the Olympics with a series of wood engravings marking the ‘sitting down sports’ that provided Team GB with so much summer success. Starch Green in Greenside Road has printed a signed limited edition of engraver Jonathan Mercer’s cute circular prints, with subjects including cyclist Lizzie Armistead, who won the first GB medal of London 2012 in the women’s road race. “The Australians may have started the idea of Team GB’s success at sitting down as a jibe, but in true British style we have embraced the slight and turned it into a positive,” said Jonathan who, with Kate
SIT DOWN: The art works marking the fact that Team GB did well seated Fishenden, set up the studio to produce hand-made quality designs. He has created five engravings, each 52mm wide in editions of 250, at £180 for the set, signed by the artist
Sport youth win awards at ceremony l Sports clubs and young athletes were recognised for their hard work at the annual H&F sporting excellence awards. Held in the town hall, the event honoured Sands End Boxing Club, Let Me Play, Chelsea & Westminster Swimming Club, H&F Rugby Club, Hammersmith Harriers Netball Club, Phoenix Flyers Trampolining Club and Rocks Lane/Bishops Park Tennis. All were awarded the local sports accreditation Club Excel or the Clubmark award. Five young taekwondo stars who receive Linford Christie Trust grants from the council also attended. All represent St Katherine’s taekwondo club and compete at the highest level. They were Grace Smith, Yassine Saidoune, Endris Tafilaku, Shayanne Sarsoza and Jamarah
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St Katherine’s taekwondo member Sal Issa trains in White City
Irish. Some already train with the GB youth squads and have a chance of making the 2016 Olympics in Rio De Janeiro.
and available online at www. starchgreen.com As well as cycling, the sports commemorated are sailing, rowing, wheelchair racing and equestrian skills. The prints first went on sale at the recent
Artists at Home open house day, which provides an annual shop window to Hammersmith & Fulham artists. Other popular lines at Starch Green include the jam-making kits. TH
A teatime treat for 300 dancers
l More than 300 senior residents of Hammersmith & Fulham danced the afternoon away at Hammersmith town hall at the mayor’s jubilee tea dance. Special guests including Strictly Come Dancing’s Karen Hardy taught the mayor, Cllr Belinda Donovan, some fancy footwork. Ms Hardy, whose dance studio in Imperial Wharf is going from strength to strength, said: “Ballroom dancing is for five to 105-year-olds. If you teach your children ballroom dancing, it never goes away. Today proves that.” Founding members of Rampage, which organises holidays for retired and elderly people Eileen Nicol and Kathy Goodes enjoyed the atmosphere and music. Eileen, 89, born, bred and still living in Fulham, said: “I’ve been
here many times but there are more here than ever. “Even if I can’t dance because I use my stick I’m still really enjoying watching the youngsters perform. All I can say is ‘Eat your heart out, Brendan Cole!’” This year’s tea dance was a Diamond Jubilee special.
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Fulham FC Foundation chief Steven Day with youngsters Freddie Goodyear and Harry Linehan. Below left, members of Rampage Holiday Project Eileen Nicol and Kathy Goodes; and (below right) project members enjoying a steam cruise in Scotland
Council awards more cash to community groups to keep good work coming From martial arts clubs to drama centres, choirs to specialist teachers, the borough’s volunteers have been given a £67,500 boost from council coffers, writes Jon Weisgard
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oluntary groups from across the borough are celebrating after learning that they have been awarded a share of a £67,500 cash windfall from H&F Council. In total, 23 local community groups have been allocated funds through the hugely popular Fast Track small grants scheme which provides individual grants of up to £10,000. H&F Council is one of the most generous boroughs in London in terms of voluntary sector budgets, with a total grants pot of almost £4 million. That equates to £21.60 per head. Since the Fast Track scheme started in 2007, more than 500 grants have been made to local voluntary organisations. Among the most recent recipients are Rampage Holiday Project, which provides budget-priced group and individual holidays for senior citizens.
The council has awarded Rampage £1,200 so that it can provide a pick-up service for people going on holiday. Mary Ravenscroft, chair of Rampage, said: “Rampage Holiday Project is extremely delighted to have been awarded a grant of £1,200 towards our valuable project. “It is wonderful to know that the borough recognises the support we are trying to provide to older people with limited mobility.” Also in the money are the Voice 4 Somali Community Altaqwa Supplementary School which has received £2,000. The school teaches maths, English and science to approximately 50 Somali youngsters aged 11-16 from a base in Dawes Road, Fulham. Group representative Ismail Dirir said: “It is getting harder and harder to get external funding every year and this cash will help us to continue our service which is provided by volunteers.”
Who Got a Fast TRack Grant? Broadway Bush Theatre DeafPLUS Ethnic Minorities Elders Group Evening Shade Flatfeet Dance Company Fulham Camerata Fulham FC Foundation Fulham Palace Trust Grove Neighbourhood Centre Hammersmith Martial Arts Club Kingdom Kats Entertainment The Consultative Forum London Sports Trust MBS Enterprise Open Age Opportunity for All Original Club Posklub Rampage Holiday Project Vietnamese Association Voices 4 Somali Community Westside Community Foundation
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AN off licence and grocery store in Shepherds Bush is £740 out of pocket after being found guilty of fly-tipping. H&F Council officers discovered illegally dumped black bags containing plastic packaging and empty bottles in August last year at the junction of Lime Grove and Goldhawk Road. The officers were able to track the bags back to A Jazz in Goldhawk Road. At Hammersmith Magistrates Court on September 25 the shop was fined £400 for flytipping and £325 for failing to produce trade waste documents. To report a fly-tip call 020 8753 1100 or email: cleaner.greener@lbhf.gov.uk
Honouring the dead from two world wars
Right, Chanel Medrano with Cllr Helen Binmore. Below, Daniel Medrano of the Children In Care Council
BRAVE men and women who gave their lives in two world wars and other conflicts around the world will be honoured during two Remembrance Sunday events on Sunday, November 11. The mayor, Cllr Belinda Donovan, will attend a service at Shepherds Bush Green and the deputy mayor, Cllr Frances Stainton, will join the march to Fulham war memorial. The Fulham procession will gather in Parsons Green Lane at 10.20am and march via New Kings Road to the Fulham war memorial, in Vicarage Garden, next to All Saints Church. The open-air service at Fulham war memorial will be conducted by the Rev Joseph Hawes of All Saints Church, Fulham. The Shepherds Bush procession gathers in Sulgrave Road at 10.15am and marches to Shepherds Bush Green war memorial. The open-air service at the memorial will be conducted by the Rev Canon David Tann and Rabbi Geoffrey Shisler.
new fund will provide life’s little extras to those who most need them, Writes LOUISE RAISEY hildren in care rarely get the added extras most families provide to help their youngsters do well. That is set to change. Children who are ‘looked after’ by H&F Council now have access to a special fund for extra tuition, sports equipment, driving lessons – anything other children benefit from in fulfilling their ambitions and making the most of their talents. A celebration event to highlight the achievements of children in care at Hammersmith Town Hall on Saturday, October 20, included the launch of the H&F Opportunity Fund – a new source of cash for the 230 children currently looked after by the council. Set up by the borough’s Children in Care Council and administered by donation management charity the London Community Foundation, the fund’s coffers have been filled by councillors and employees via the Give as You Earn scheme and through local business contributions.
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The first major business donation of £5,000 has come from the Earls Court & Olympia Venues’ charity fund. “This year EC&O is celebrating 10 years of its Charitable Trust and I can’t think of a more fitting way to honour such a landmark,” said Anna Golden, commercial director at EC&O Venues. We are keen to engage with the community and this very worthy cause offers us a real chance to support young people in the area.” The day also showcased some of the exceptional talent the fund aims to nurture, including an art exhibition and performances by some of the borough’s looked-after children. l For more details, call Etiene Steyn on 020 8753 5024 or visit: www.londoncf. org.uk/giving/ the- opportunityfund.aspx The event in Hammersmith Town Hall’s council chamber
New ‘hubs’ will help young talent More children will have the opportunity to develop their interest and skills in music following the launch of an exciting collaboration between world-class musicians and teachers, and three London councils. The Royal Albert Hall and its partners the Royal College of Music and Aurora Orchestra have teamed up with Hammersmith & Fulham, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, and Westminster City councils to give the boroughs’ young people, aged five to 18, the chance to sing, learn an instrument or play with other children as part of an ensemble or choir. The scheme is one of 122 newly developed ‘music education hubs’ across the country, which have attracted more than £171 million of funding, and will help promote music in schools.
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A single cigarette costs smoker £1,000 At a cost of more than £1,000, a cigarette butt thrown on to the pavement by a woman last November must go down as one of the most expensive nicotine fixes in history. Nuzhat Distri dropped a fag end outside Hammersmith Broadway and was given a fixed penalty notice for £80 after being stopped by council street scene enforcement officers. However Distri, of Bishopsford Road, Grosslea, gave a fake address, and refused to pay the fine. On August 28, Hammersmith magistrates found her guilty of littering (£80 fine) and giving inaccurate information (£400 fine) and ordered her to pay costs of £574... a total of £1,054.
HONEY, I NEED: Kay Davis, a finalist in the local H&F business awards, in her Goldhawk Road hair and beauty salon PICTURE BY LEIGH QUINNELL
Re-think on town hall plans has a height restriction Residents will be at the heart of new proposals to regenerate the area around Hammersmith Town Hall – with a height limit of eight storeys a ‘cast-iron guarantee’. A rethink on plans to breathe new life into the west end of King Street has been signalled by council leader Cllr Nicholas Botterill, who said the council and developer had ‘listened and learned’ from opposition to the previous plan. He said the revised scheme would not be higher than the existing Hammersmith town hall extension, meaning that eight storeys would be a maximum possible height. “We got it wrong with the previous King Street proposals and we have learned from it,” he said. “We guarantee the tallest buildings in a new scheme will not exceed the height of the existing town hall extension. “The council’s office space requirements at the time and the impact from the economic downturn on residential values pushed the height of the two tallest blocks too far, and we will not repeat this mistake.”
On the first day of Christmas... …Hammersmith gave to me – a month’s worth of special deals, free gift wrapping, sparkling lights and a towering, festive tree! Look out for the Countdown to Christmas – presented by local Hammersmith amenity group HammersmithLondon – when daily deals, giveaways, VIP shopping events, in-store competitions and daily draws at our town centre shops, pubs and restaurants will all be part of the adventure. For more details, visit: www. hammersmithlondon.co.uk or sign up to the Facebook page to receive daily notifications of what’s hot in the shops that day. All purchases made in Hammersmith between December 1-23 can be wrapped for free by helpful elves in the Xmas cabin in Lyric Square.
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Kay’s salon success shows it’s a woman’s world now! Backed by the Prince’s Trust, Young Honeys underlines how hard work can triumph in a crowded marketplace, writes Dan Levene
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ay Davis is causing a real buzz in Goldhawk Road, following the opening of her new hair and beauty salon, Young Honeys. Since April she has been providing a one-stop shop for families looking for the full makeover effect. Kay says she is ‘a real west Londoner’, and that anywhere beyond the capital’s bounds is ‘outside my comfort zone’. She was born in Hammersmith Hospital, has lived her whole life in the area, and gave birth to her own daughter in Queen Charlotte’s Hospital. She now has two girls and a boy. It was her children who got her thinking about setting up a business. Before her family was born, Kay worked in the hotel trade, and was also a visiting hairdresser. Then she saw a gap in the market. “I wanted to make a family one-stop shop,” she says. “It’s hard to get your hair done with the kids hanging about. So why not go to one place where mum, dad and the kids can all get their hair done? And while you’re at it, mum can get her nails sorted, and a bit of waxing too.” Kay took her ideas to the Prince’s Trust, which helped her get going with a business loan. She opened the shop at 151 Goldhawk Road in April. Knowing that she was entering a tough market at an even tougher time, Kay has used her fierce
marketing brain to dream up offers to boost her new business. Her positive attitude helped see her through those tough weeks all start-up businesses experience; and being her own boss means she can set her own schedule to juggle work and family commitments. Asked why so many new startup businesses seem to be run by strong, independent women, Kay smiles and says: “It’s a woman’s world now! “I think, after having children, a lot of women have to think about what they want to do, and how they can manage changes in their lifestyle.” Others have noticed Kay’s positivity, marketing zeal, and infectious personality when it comes to both customers and networking. She was runner-up in a contest to find the best young entrepreneur, and is now a finalist in the H&F business awards. Never one to shy away from a challenge, Kay has decided to add to the pressures of running a business and caring for a family by taking on a charity cycle ride. In late September she will leave that London ‘comfort zone’ to cycle across Jamaica, raising funds for Marie Curie Cancer Care. “It’s 400km in five days,” she says, “and my target is to raise £3,250. I’ve been flat out in the gym training for this, because I want to help as much as I can for what is a great cause.” l For more details and location, visit: www.young-honeys.com
Linda on shortlist for national prize A foster mum who has cared for more than 50 children over 13 years has been nominated for an award on the television show Lorraine. Linda Graham, 62, from Shepherds Bush, has been shortlisted for the Inspirational Woman of the Year award, as part of the annual Women of the Year awards. She became a foster carer for Hammersmith & Fulham Council in 1999, caring for 53 children from diverse cultural, social and medical backgrounds. The former creche worker is a single mum of five, with three children, Rachel, 42, Justin, 41, and Jack, 23, and adopted sons Asair, five, who has severe cerebral palsy, and Ryan, 13.
Spooky times in Lyric Square this Halloween Ghosts, gravestones and a very, very wicked witch will be chilling spines in Lyric Square from Monday October 29-Wednesday October 31. As the sunlight dims each afternoon, do you dare go into the cabin of cauldrons? Will you take your chances in the pursuit of pumpkins hidden in shops up and down King Street? Will you win a prize on the 31st for being the most ghoulishly garbed? Can you shake a leg like a zombie in the lunchtime Thriller dance-off? Hair-raising activities are free for all – HammersmithLondon’s Halloween festivities are aimed at entertaining young people (and their families) and raising footfall in local shops. No tricks, just treats; win a goody bag of sweets and instantly printed photo with the wicked witch in the Pumpkin Hunt, then dress up on All Hallows Eve itself for a fistful of Mizu Moto meal vouchers and a frighteningly large cauldron of candy.
Complaints are overwhelming us! Heathrow Airport’s noise complaints unit is so overwhelmed with grievances that it has given up providing individual responses to disgruntled residents. Theresa Gruber, community communications manager at Heathrow Airport Ltd, emailed a borough resident (who wishes to remain anonymous), who was complaining about increased aircraft noise last month, and said: ‘Thank you for your email and I hope this finds you well. Unfortunately due to the high volume of complaints we are receiving at the moment, we are currently unable to provide detailed individual responses. We aspire to providing individual responses in future.” The revelation comes as borough residents who are already concerned about disruptive aircraft noise at Heathrow will be invited to a public hearing in November. For more details, visit: www.lbhf.gov.uk
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A futuristic masterplan is agreed for Earls Court It will create 9,500 new jobs and 7,500 new homes. Jon Weisgard reports on the biggest building project since the London Olympics
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transport links, healthcare centre and community centre. It will also create up to 9,500 new permanent jobs and 36,000 construction jobs over the 20-year development period. H&F Council leader Cllr Nicholas Botterill said: “Britain needs more homes and more jobs and this is just the kind of privately funded construction, on a brownfield site, that can lift the UK out of recession. “Growth is the engine of economic opportunity and this country needs many more visionary projects like this. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for the residents of West Kensington and Earls Court to benefit from a massive investment in their own area. “All our residents can now look forward to a new era of prosperity and opportunity, with new homes and jobs on offer, and the council will be there to help every step of the way.” A detailed planning application to build 808 homes at nearby Seagrave Road has already been approved by H&F Council. Up to 200 of these homes could be used in the first phase of redevelopment of the West Kensington and Gibbs Green estates.
Benefits of Earls Court scheme l New replacement homes in local transport for tenants of the Gibbs Green infrastructure. West and West Kensington estates Ken tube station will l A new primary school and get a new entrance, two new nursery schools with a lift to be built l Training and skills at West Brompton programmes so local people Overground station take advantage of thousands l Bike and car hire of new jobs to be created schemes and l A new health hub with GP cycle routes and dental surgery l A new community centre, with potential for library, job shop, multi-faith space, youth space, children’s centre, training and meeting space, community police space, hire halls and training space l Affordable leisure centre l Lost River Park, a ns will 2-hectare green open tion drop-i Hotel, a rm fo In space, and three the Ibis garden squares be held at e Road, on li in Lil l A new high street 8, with shops and Novemberm p -6 restaurants noon 8, l A big investment ovember 2
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resident feedback I’ve lived here all my life and seen the area deteriorate. There’s nothing in the area and this will give us opportunities: a new high street, leisure facilities, a school. It will be good for business as it will draw in the local people and create jobs, which we need desperately Maureen Way, Aisgill Avenue
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The ex-mayor of Hammersmith & Fulham Council, Cllr Frances Stainton, has presented £50,126 to Walking with the Wounded, her chosen charity during last year’s mayoral term. The money was raised in a series of events which included a gala dinner at Chelsea Football Club, the London Mayor’s parade and dedicated bucket collections across the borough. The money will go towards the work the charity does to retrain and re-educate wounded servicemen and to help them find long term employment after they have left the armed forces.
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NWANTED electrical items, furniture and bikes are now among the extra items that can be recycled at the new waste and recycling centre at Smugglers Way, in Wandsworth. The site has 13 bay areas set aside for members of the public to leave items for reuse. The items are then given to local charities for resale. If they are in need of some repair, work will be carried out on-site at a workshop which supports young people on jobseekers’ allowance by giving them some experience and practical skills to help them find full-time employment. The refurbished facility has been designed to provide a better service to the public by reducing queuing times. Recycling, rather than throwing away unwanted goods, also means savings for taxpayers. It costs the council £136 per
Ticket touts who harass fans on their way to Chelsea matches are being targeted by the UK’s first matchday exclusion zone. Anyone suspected of touting tickets within half a mile of Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge stadium will be ordered to leave and told not to return for 24 hours. Any tout who returns, or is caught selling a ticket, will be arrested. H&F Council and the Met Police introduced the dispersal zone after residents and fans complained about aggressive touts. The rules come into effect from Sunday (October 28) when the Blues host Manchester United at Stamford Bridge. It is common for at least 30 touts to gather near Fulham Broadway and North End Road before games. Twenty-two of Chelsea’s 30 home games saw disruption caused by feuding ticket tout rivals, and segregation of fans not being observed.
Comedian keeps the OAPs laughing tonne to send rubbish for disposal, while recycling the same amount costs £77.50. Non-recyclable waste is now sent to the energy-to-waste plant at Belvedere, Bexley, where it is transformed into enough electricity to power 100,000 homes. Residents will soon be able to visit the centre’s website: www. wrwa.gov.uk to see the length of any queues before they set off.
More than 120 of the borough’s senior residents turned out for Age UK’s open day. With live entertainment including a comedian and three groups of singers, the event was organised to reach out to some of the borough’s more isolated older people. Chief executive Dawn Stephenson calculates that the borough has almost 14,000 people over 60 living alone. “We are trying to reach those who may be isolated or facing loneliness,” she said. “We have a befriending service, maintained by wonderful volunteers, offering the emotional and practical help these people need to improve their lives. The borough’s mayor, Cllr Belinda Donovan, attended the open day. To know more about Age UK’s home visits/befriending scheme call 020 8386 9085 or visit 105 Greyhound Road, W6.
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Creating a new housing ladder of opportunity RADICAL CHANGE TO COUNCIL HOUSE POLICY AIMS TO REWARD ASPIRATION AND HELP THOSE WHO MAKE A POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION TO THE COMMUNITY, writes Jon weisgard
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fixed term for social housing tenancies and a maximum income cap for people considered for council housing are set to be introduced, Hammersmith & Fulham Council has announced. From April 2013, a number of radical policies come into force aiming to increase low-cost homeownership, tackle the borough’s social and economic divide and give greater priority to people who are making a community contribution. The council believes that a ‘council house for life’ does not
promote personal aspiration or provide tenants with the incentive to try to move into homeownership, and fails to take into account the fact that a household’s need for social housing may be temporary.
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anyone from any part of the country, and indeed overseas, can today apply to go on to the register, which currently stands at 10,300 people. These people are graded according to priority, but with resources so scarce and 94 per cent of people on the list on the lowest priority bands, the chance of ever getting social housing is very small. In fact, one person has been on the waiting list in Hammersmith & Fulham for 36 years. Resources are so stretched that last year only 470 new lettings were made. The year before, a total of 131,000 bids were received for social housing and on average each three-bedroom property attracted 157 bids.
l Households earning more than £40,200 will no longer get on to the housing register. l Priority will be given to local, working residents, members of the armed forces, foster carers and those who make a community contribution. This new way of working will replace an antiquated and inefficient system that created false hopes and expectations. That is because
Cllr Andrew Johnson, H&F’s cabinet member for housing, said: “At H&F Council, we are leading the way in ushering in a new era for social housing in this country. “We are saying that the current system, whereby anyone can apply
“We want to give honest, hard-working, local residents on low to middle incomes, who make a positive contribution to their local communities, the opportunity to access social housing”
l Existing tenants will be unaffected by the new proposals. New tenancies in sheltered accommodation and for those with special housing or health needs will still be on a secure basis.
for a council home irrespective of housing need, has failed. “We believe that the notion of a tenancy for life is outdated and that it’s wrong to expect to inherit a welfare benefit in the form of a subsidised house irrespective of housing need. “Instead, we want to give honest, hard-working local residents on low to middle incomes who make a positive contribution to their local communities the opportunity to access social housing. We believe the changes will give residents a hand up, not a hand out.”
The new system will give the council the opportunity to review whether the rationale for granting the tenancy in the first place is still there, and will also encourage good behaviour and greater contributions to community life and the local economy.
Changes to tenancies l The notion of a council house for life will end, replaced by five-year fixed-term tenancies. l Two-year tenancies will be issued to those with a history of antisocial behaviour and for those between the ages of 18 and 25. l The notion of an inherited welfare benefit will end by preventing the children of tenants inheriting their council property. l Secure tenancies will still be available for the most vulnerable residents.
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SPORT SPECIAL REPORT BY DAN LEVENE
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The idea is that this provides more opportunities for young home-grown stars to be tested against opposition of a similar standard. The new set-up has the support of the FA, which sees it as a way of improving the chances of youngsters making it to highest levels in the professional game – including, of course, the England team. Chelsea have shown how seriously they are taking all this, by naming the biggest development squad of any Premier League club; 63 players under the age of 21, all of whom can theoretically be called up to first-team STORY CONTINUEs ON PAGE 60
Above, Todd Kane celebrates Chelsea’s FA Youth Cup final win. Left, Fulham FC’s Kerim Frei has come up from the club’s youth academy. Far left, Chelsea’s Brazilian hope for the future, Lucas Piazon PICTUREs BY ACTION IMAGES
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level immediately, should they show sufficient promise. Players such as Todd Kane, Nathaniel Chalobah and Lucas Piazon were all taken with the first team on this summer’s playing tour of the USA. Part of the reason for the big squad is the extra games thrown up by Blues involvement in the NextGen Series – a sort of Champions League for development and academy sides. The competition involves 24 of Europe’s top teams, including Barcelona, Paris St Germain and Juventus, as well as Arsenal, Aston Villa, Liverpool, Manchester City and Tottenham from the Premier League. The Blues’ U21 side will also be fighting for silverware on the home front, in one of three groups that form the new U21 Premier League – the first national competition for players in this age group. Among the teams in Chelsea’s group are neighbours Fulham who, like Chelsea, gain entry because the Premier League has placed them in the highest category for youth development under their new national Elite Player Performance Plan. The Whites are trying to build on what was, last year, a successful academy season, which saw first team debuts for Kerim Frei, Alex Kacaniklic, Tom Donegan and Neil Etheridge – all at various times part of the Fulham academy. QPR are also striving for excellence in youth development, having recently formed their own academy, which includes the recruitment of former Loftus Road hero Paul Furlong as a coach (pictured right). For the time being, Rangers’ youngsters play their football in the U21 Professional Development League 2 (South). But it is hoped that they can reach the Premier League’s highest standards, and eventually gain admission to the national competition.
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Big summer spending has still to repay IT’S BEEN A DIFFICULT START TO THE 2012/13 PREMIER LEAGUE FOR rangers, despite major squad rebuilding in the summer, but the club is focused on long-term growth and an exciting new training ground, writes DAN LEVENE
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Beard said: “It is fantastic to have Populous on board. “Having secured Warren Farm, we wanted to work with the best people in the industry to develop a training ground which will benefit not only the first team, but also the academy and the local community. “Populous have great experience in this field and are the perfect fit for us. “Over the summer, a great amount of renovation has taken place at our current training ground at Harlington which has reduced the urgency for us to move to a new site. “We are working very closely with Ealing Council and are very excited about what we can create. It is our intention to have a fully operational training facility in place ahead of the 2014/15 season.” The start of the season has been tricky for Rangers fans, with just three draws – at Norwich, at home to local rivals Chelsea and at home to Everton – to show for the wholesale reinvestment in the team over the summer. They will be hoping for an upturn in fortune with the prospect of a November fixture list which includes trips to unforgiving Stoke and Manchester United.
EFENDER Aaron Hughes has just signed an extension to his contract that will see him remain at Craven Cottage until just short of his 35th birthday. Asked if he might now end his career with the Whites, the popular centre-half said of the two-year extension: “It’s funny, because that’s what everyone’s mentioning to me. I don’t actually feel like that, I still fell like I’m in my 20s! “But now I’m getting towards that sort of stage where I’m getting towards the end of my career – I think it’s realistic to say that. I just hope to enjoy it.” But he warned not to write him off just yet and, while still playing close to the pinnacle of his abilities, insists there’s It’s great to be plenty more football ahead for him. involved with Hughes, 32, said: “This time something next year when I sit down, and got eight months left, if that shows the I’ve I’ve done well enough then side of football maybe I’ll get another year.” Hughes is not the only one people don’t see thinking about his future at Fulham FC after the first 16 people qualified from a new Fulham Football Club scheme to make youngsters more employable. The My Future Goal programme, run by the club’s charitable foundation, seeks to increase employment opportunities for 16 to 25-year-olds in the borough. Success stories of the programme, run in
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partnership with Barclays Spaces for Sports, include one participant who has gone on to be a matchday employee for Fulham, and another who volunteers with the foundation. Others have made progress elsewhere, thanks to the help they have received in interview techniques and CV writing over the 10-week employability programme. Graduates were presented with certificates at a session hosted by Fulham manager Martin Jol and Hughes. Hughes added: “The course is not just tailored to a specific job, it’s life skills. Skills that are going to help them no matter what job they go into, no matter what road in life they decide to go down. “I guess it’s important because we’re not all lucky enough to live a privileged life or have the same upbringing. “Sometimes people find themselves in a position where they need that little bit of help. And things like this today, the club can provide something that gives them that.” He said Fulham were ideally placed to run a programme such
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as this. “Being a Premier League club we have a lot of contacts and a lot of exposure via the media,” said the former Northern Ireland captain. “We’re affiliated with a lot of big companies that can invest and help promote the scheme. “But this is part of what Fulham is. I think it’s part of the image, and the perception that people have of it being a family club.” As well as the obvious help it gives to young people, Hughes says it is a good opportunity to prove that football and footballers are about more than bad behaviour and fast cars. He said: “Unfortunately the times when things go wrong seem to make the headlines a lot more, and I’m sure lots of clubs do their thing like this as well. This is what we do. It maybe doesn’t make the headlines in the way the bad press does. “But it’s great to be involved with something that’s positive and maybe shows the side of football that people don’t see every week. “They see the games, they see the cars, they see whatever else it is, but they don’t see this side of it, and what the clubs do for their communities.”
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FULHAM CHAMPION BOXER GEORGE GROVES NAMED PATRON OF NEW HURLINGHAM & CHELSEA GYM. NICK SKORIC WEIGHS IN
Opening day at the new Hurlingham & Chelsea school gym. Clockwise from below left, Sands End boxing club patron George Groves trains with JJ Kelly; Daniel Hudson and coach Roy Reid; Jermaine Ramus shows off his haul; Kareem Zaoni with coach Tom Ridney; Sgt Gordon Barlow watches the training; former London Irish captain Bob Casey drops by PICTUREs BY Leigh Quinnell
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FORMER Olympian is hoping to help a White City athletics club build on the 2012 legacy by doubling its membership over the next year. Michael Parker competed in the 110m hurdles at both Tokyo 1964 and Mexico 1968. His time of 13.09 remained a UK record for six years and he won silver medals at both the 1966 Commonwealth Games in Jamaica and 1966 European Indoor Championships in Germany. Michael has had a successful career in advertising, including 20 years at Saatchi & Saatchi, and wants to use his experience to help the club grow. The Thames Valley Harriers (TVH) club, based at Linford Christie stadium in Du Cane Road, celebrates its 125th birthday this year. Michael explained: “The focus of the campaign is to build on the legacy of the Olympics and to make the Harriers the heartbeat of athletics.” He explained his involvement in the campaign. “It’s an amazing club; you go down there on a Tuesday or Thursday evening and you’ll see 120 athletes and 10 coaches,” he said. “The club is entirely run by volunteers, it’s quite amazing.” Michael explained how important he thought it was that London 2012 delivered on the promises it has made to create a legacy for UK sport. He explained that he felt no other Olympics had quite lived up to the promises made to increase involvement in sport. “We have to make sure that we have a positive impact,” he said. “The club offers an amazing opportunity for anyone wanting to get involved in athletics to receive top-level coaching. We just need to make sure people know about us.” The club has had pro bono support from the RPM Marketing Agency which has created a marketing campaign of posters, flyers and banners. Membership is almost entirely from the Hammersmith and Fulham area and the club is keen to welcome new members of any ability. Michael said: “The first step is to raise awareness. After we’ve done that we want to focus on local schools, hospitals and doctors’ surgeries.” The campaign has already gained high-level support with both QPR and Fulham football clubs backing its efforts.
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The club is steeped in history and counts many top-class athletes among its current and past membership. TVH is in the league just below the premiership. Michael described it as “one of the top 10 clubs in the country; really challenging for a premiership spot”. Unsurprisingly, the most famous athlete from the club is the man who gave his name to the current stadium, Linford Christie. Linford is still involved in the club in his role of club president. And Linford’s coach from his glory years, Ron Roddan, still coaches at the club. Ron has coached at the club for more than 50 years and currently coaches Linford’s niece, Rachel Christie, former winner
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of Miss England. The club has a long history of sending members to the Olympics, with club member Amber Simukonda in action for Malawi in the 400m at London 2012. Another coach, Roy Clarridge, has also been part of the club for more than 50 years. Last year he was awarded the Hammersmith and Fulham lifetime achievement award, as well as being an Olympic torch bearer. The plans to do not stop at encouraging new members as the club hopes to attract a sponsor as well as gaining volunteers to help run it. Michael added: “To run a club like this doesn’t just take coaches. We need people to help with transport, the cafe, judging and even accountancy.” l To find out more about joining the club as an athlete, volunteer or coach, call Paul Oppe on 07941 311726 or John Husbands on 07951 927724 or visit: www.thamesvalleyharriers.com
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Broughton Road. July’s free-play event in Lyric Square was part of Ping! 2012, a pop-up public table tennis movement which is now in its third year. Ping pong tables appeared in all kinds of locations across eight cities, encouraging
everyone to have a go at one of the simplest and liveliest sports. The Hammersmith event was an offshoot of Sing London, a citywide project designed to lift people’s spirits. It was also linked to the transmission of a recent Channel 4
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documentary, Ping Pong: Never Too Old for Gold, which followed a group of pensioners from across the globe as they competed in the over-80s World Table Tennis Championships in Mongolia. The Hurlingham & Chelsea community scheme also includes a new library for use by pupils and residents, and the refurbishment of a formerly unused area of the school, which has been turned into a purpose-built arts and crafts, pottery and textiles suite. “This project helps to realise our long-standing ambition to become a learning ‘hub’ for the community in south Fulham,” said Dr Cross. H&F cabinet member Greg Smith, added: “I am confident that the local community will come to value this innovative new hub as much as they did the previous one.”
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Fulham learnt to waltz past defenders on the dancefloor FULHAM FC LOOKBACK
HAVE A BALL: a 1891 WLO Cup medal; 1897 season ticket and black leather cover; an 1896 Fulham town hall dance card, and the bearded figure of Fulham FC’s Arthur Thomas
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orkshireman John Cardwell (1842-1921) was the first vicar of St Andrew’s Fulham Fields and the first patron of its football and cricket club. Every year at his own expense he took the 1st XI to Crowborough in Sussex for a cricket match against the local side. This portrait shows him late in life when he was prebend of St Paul’s Cathedral. From January 1889 the club was known as Fulham FC. Its first success under the new name was to win the West London Observer Cup in April 1891, beating local rivals the Stanley 5-3. Amazingly this medal from the day has survived. It was awarded to the losing captain Harry Hatsell and is shown by permission of his great great grandson, Russell Seggar. In 1895 and 1896 Fulham transformed the burnt-out shell of Craven Cottage into a football ground. Harry Coleman and his volunteer helpers constructed the dressing rooms and the club house. This is Harry’s dance card (front and back) for the annual ball on March 16 1896. As one of the emcees, he timed all 23 dances, after which the revellers walked home, washed, put on fresh clothes and began their day’s work. Craven Cottage saw its first match in October 1896. Harry Coleman was rewarded for his construction work by being made vice-president for life. This is the black leather cover and the season ticket for 1897-98 that it enclosed. His grandson Tim Coleman helped me trace these precious souvenirs. In December 1898 Arthur
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John’s early death at age 39 prompted this portrait
Thomas, the former captain of the 2nd XI succeeded in persuading his fellow members to make Fulham a professional club. Sometimes he had to use his own money to pay the wages. His early death in 1903 at the age of 39 prompted the issue of this portrait as part of a leaflet appealing for memorial funds. As a result the Arthur Thomas Cup became an important competition for young west London footballers. The leaflet was preserved by Leslie Bowker, the first organiser, and is now in the possession of Keith Whitehouse.
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OU’VE sneaked down to the kitchen for a late-night cuppa... but, Arrrgh! Those freezing tiles under your toasty tootsies! Ever dreamt of underfloor heating? “It’s very popular in Fulham at the moment,” said Candice Lotter, of European Heritage – the tile and wood flooring specialists in Dawes Road. “If underfloor heating is ever mentioned, people seem to go for it!” European does a brisk trade in underfloor heating mats, laid under tiling, wood or natural stone, both in extensions and new-build. As a rule of thumb, expect to pay somewhere between £44 per square metre and £50. “It’s a useful selling point, and it can add value to your home,” said Candice, who says H&F residents don’t restrict it to kitchens and bathrooms. “You can use it to heat any room, although the running cost can be more expensive,” she said. “It takes between half an hour and an hour to reach the right temperature, so set it for an hour before you want the heat on.” Parsons Green plumbing and heating specialists Atlantic believes the winter feel-warm factor is a major incentive to anyone to consider installation. Director Frank Harrington said underfloor systems were especially popular in new-build properties, or with major concretebase extensions, but that it was also perfectly possible to have a system fitted in old houses too. “The only disadvantage is you need insulation in place, which is easier with new-build,” he said. “Timber-joist floors of Victorian houses can make it tricky.” Concrete underfloors are among the simplest to create, with heating contained in the screed, which can then be covered with any flooring material. “People are going away from the idea of using carpets in bathrooms, with a ceramic, porcelain or stone finish giving
you a luxurious feel and a nice comfort level, as well as keeping damp at bay,” said Frank. For wooden flooring, use engineered wood, to prevent warping. “Not all wood is suitable,” Frank warned, adding that one benefit was space-saving (especially in small bathrooms) by removing the need for radiators. Peter Doherty at Fulham Heating Merchants, Dawes Road, says the key to underfloor’s popularity is the evenness of the warmth it generates. “You don’t get draughts as the whole floor becomes the radiator,” he said. “It’s an ambient temperature.” He is sceptical about systems adding much value to a house, but confirmed it was growing in popularity as an option in Fulham – both in new and old homes – as plumbers become more confident about installing it. Interestingly, European Heritage advises people to think twice before fitting underfloor heating in every part of their kitchen. “We try to discourage that because it can sometimes get too toasty, with radiators and central heating as well,” said Candice… not to mention the heat generated by hobs, ovens and other kitchen appliances. “Some people opt for a ‘heated pathway’ rather than heating the full kitchen if their home has additional heating,” she added. The real plus about underfloor heating is that it warms your extremities first (no more freezing
foot squeals) without overheating the upper areas of a room to achieve a comfortable floor temperature – a criminal waste of energy. The cost of heating a room with an underfloor system varies with factors such as insulation
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level and room size. But experts calculate that floor-heating an average UK bathroom works out at roughly 10p for a day. Ask anyone who has underfloor heating for their verdict, and they invariably sing its praises. The only exceptions seem to be when the work has been done by cowboys, and problems have resulted… so stick to the experts. l European Heritage, 48 Dawes Road, SW6. Call 020 7381 6063. Fulham Heating Merchants, 229 Dawes Road, SW6. Call 020 7381 1147. Atlantic Plumbing and Heating is at 6 Peterborough Mews, SW6. Call 020 7736 0303.
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Above, the tubes of hot water in a typical underfloor heating system. Left, the Nu-Heat LoPro10 which is ideal for retro-fitting in Victorian and Edwardian homes
l The ‘wet’ underfloor heating system involves a long snaking maze of plastic pipework beneath the surface, with hot water pumped through it. It runs at a lower temperature than central heating pipes, and provides a more even distribution of heat within a room. Provided it is insulated correctly and installed by professionals, it is very effective and efficient. The electric system has come a long way in recent years. It is inexpensive to run, and is wafer-thin, so it won’t add to the height of the floor. The cable is hidden in the adhesive under the tile, so only measures between 1mm and 1.5mm. Provided it is installed by professionals, it should carry a lifetime guarantee. You can maximise the heat and efficiency by laying insulating board beneath it.
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housing company set up by the council. H&F has the fourth highest house prices in the UK and the new properties are all being sold at a discounted rate so people living or working in the borough can get on to the property ladder. The housing company has also renovated the flat next door and has agreed to sell it to Moulay Znida, a 36-year-old train driver who was renting in Shepherds Bush. He said: “I have never felt particularly happy renting – it feels like I have just been pouring my money down the drain.” l For details, or to put your name forward for future properties, call 020 8753 6464 or email: h&fHome-buy@lbhf. gov.uk
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Fulham | Parsons Green Hammersmith | Shepherd’s Bush Barons Court | Ravenscourt Park Hello! We would like to introduce ourselves as Hammersmith & Fulham’s newest letting agent and property manager, Belvoir! With over 15 years’ experience and 145 locally-owned and managed branches across the country, we are an award-winning national network with the key benefit of local insight. The tree-lined streets of Victorian terraces, red brick mansion blocks and stucco townhouses all give our neighbourhood its distinct character and us our passion for property. We are proud to be the lettings specialist, offering a professional yet personal service to Landlords and Tenants. If you are thinking of letting your property or renting a property this year, please get in touch and give us the chance to show you what we can do. To book your free, no-obligation property appraisal and up to date rental valuation or register your property search requirements, please call us on 020 7736 2786 or pop into our Fulham Road office.
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