Profile 2004; boundary changes 2017 and 2018Brook Green Conservation Area No. 3
The profile records a first designation in March 1971, additions in April 1974, August 1981 and February 1988, and an extension on 7 March 2006 taking in King’s House, Latymer Court, EMI House and Vineyard House on the north side of Hammersmith Road. The council has since moved some properties to the Lakeside / Sinclair / Blythe Road Conservation Area, from 18 July 2017, and added 50F Brook Green, from 13 November 2018. It notes that boundaries have moved on since its 2018 Policies Map, and keeps the up-to-date maps on its conservation area pages.
LBHF: Brook Green Conservation Area character profile, approved 8 March 2004 · LBHF: Brook Green Conservation Area, with the 2017 transfer and 2018 extension · LBHF: public notice of conservation area changes, November 2018 · LBHF: Local Plan, adopted 28 February 2018 · LBHF: conservation areas, character profiles and maps
The profile’s design guidelines speak directly to refurbishment. It generally rejects front roof extensions, accepting one only where such extensions have already significantly impaired the terrace, and treats raising a ridge to gain internal ceiling height as unacceptable. Rear extensions, it says, should not cover more than half the width of the main building or rise above one storey below the original eaves or parapet. It also states that rear roof terraces cut into the slates of rear extensions, and the removal of an original chimney stack visible from the street or a public space, need planning permission and should be resisted.
LBHF: Brook Green Conservation Area character profile, approved 8 March 2004
Designated 1990; profile July 2017Lakeside / Sinclair / Blythe Road Conservation Area No. 36
This neighbouring area was designated on 17 January 1990 and extended on 18 November 1991. In July 2017 a further extension and the transfer in of some Brook Green and Melrose properties were approved, and Cabinet adopted its character profile the same month. The profile splits the area into six sub-areas, among them Lakeside Road – Minford Gardens and Addison Gardens – Bolingbroke Road. It records an important view from Lakeside Road to the Grade II listed St Simon’s Church, and notes that most of its protected trees stand in the private courtyard enclosed by Richmond Way, Addison Gardens and Sinclair Gardens.
LBHF: Lakeside / Sinclair / Blythe Road Conservation Area character profile, adopted by Cabinet July 2017
For Sub Area 3, Addison Gardens – Bolingbroke Road, the last part to be developed, the profile describes red-brick terraced houses generally of two to three storeys, more suburban in character, generally without the purpose-built basements of their older neighbours and many with Dutch gables. The houses it describes there include 67 to 97 and 70 to 148 Addison Gardens and 32 to 70, 51 to 67 and 69 to 83 Bolingbroke Road, along with parts of Blythe Road and Richmond Way. No. 27, Nos. 29 to 59 (odd) and 40 to 62 (even) Addison Gardens and 1 to 21 (odd) and 2 to 30 (even) Bolingbroke Road are described under Sub Area 2, Sinclair Road, so read the section that covers your number.
LBHF: Lakeside / Sinclair / Blythe Road Conservation Area character profile, adopted by Cabinet July 2017
Directions 1977 to 2004; basements 2018Article 4 directions, house number by house number
The council’s Article 4 property list (last amended 1 October 2011) records the three Brook Green directions as served on 25 October 1977, 24 November 1982 and 19 December 1984. No. 1 requires permission for any change to the front roof or gable at 44 to 54 (even) Bute Gardens, 21 to 31 (odd) Rowan Road and 32 Wolverton Gardens. No. 2 covers front elevations and vehicle hardstandings at 8 to 46 (even) Rowan Road and 18 and 19 Brook Green, with boundaries at those Rowan Road houses and exterior painting at 18 and 19. No. 3 reaches numbered properties on Brook Green, Bute Gardens, Dunsany Road, Rowan Road and Rowan Terrace, where, depending on the address, it covers front elevations and porches, hardstandings, boundary walls and fences, and painting.
LBHF: properties affected by Article 4 directions · LBHF: properties affected by Article 4 directions, list last amended 1 October 2011 · LBHF: Brook Green (No. 1) Article 4 direction summary · LBHF: Brook Green (No. 2) Article 4 direction summary · LBHF: Brook Green (No. 3) Article 4 direction summary · LBHF: Brook Green Conservation Area character profile, approved 8 March 2004
The one direction that the 2017 Lakeside / Sinclair / Blythe Road profile records as in force, served on 11 October 2004, applies at 67 to 97 (odd) and 70 to 148 (even) Addison Gardens, covering front elevations, the roof and roof coverings, porches, boundaries and all outside painting except doors and window frames; the profile names none for Lakeside Road or Bolingbroke Road. The council confirmed a borough-wide basement direction on 16 April 2018; it has been in force since 26 April 2018 throughout the borough, save for the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation area, removing householder rights for the enlargement, improvement or other alteration of a house by way of a basement, lightwells or other development beneath it or its curtilage.
LBHF: Lakeside, Sinclair and Blythe Road Article 4 direction summary, Addison Gardens · LBHF: properties affected by Article 4 directions, list last amended 1 October 2011 · LBHF: Lakeside / Sinclair / Blythe Road Conservation Area character profile, adopted by Cabinet July 2017 · LBHF: Article 4 directions, including the borough-wide basement direction · LBHF: borough-wide basement Article 4 direction, in force 26 April 2018
Adopted 28 February 2018; draft to 2042The 2018 Local Plan, the SPD and the draft plan
Hammersmith and Fulham adopted its Local Plan on 28 February 2018, superseding its Core Strategy (2011) and Development Management Local Plan (2013), and its Table 5 names Brook Green and Lakeside / Sinclair / Blythe Road among the borough’s conservation areas. Under policy DC4 an extension should be subservient and never dominate its parent building in bulk, scale, materials or design. Policy DC8 protects conservation areas and listed buildings among other heritage assets: an application affecting a designated heritage asset, alterations and extensions included, is permitted only if the asset’s significance is conserved or enhanced.
LBHF: Local Plan adoption statement · LBHF Local Plan 2018: policy document
The council’s Planning Guidance Supplementary Planning Document, dated February 2018, names Brook Green among the village greens that first shaped the borough and are now the focus of conservation areas. Under its key principle HS4, permission will not normally be granted for a rear extension over 3.5 metres long, counting any existing extension and measured from the original back addition, one within 4 metres of the rear boundary, or one covering more than half the original rear open area. A first draft of a new Local Plan to 2042 has been prepared under Regulation 18, but it is still emerging and has not been adopted, so the 2018 plan remains the adopted plan.
LBHF Planning Guidance SPD, adopted 28 February 2018 · LBHF: draft Local Plan introduction, October 2025
Before any window order, roof alteration, change to a front wall or railings, or excavation, confirm which consents the exact Brook Green address requires, and record each answer in the brief. Article 4 directions and the basement direction decide whether planning permission is needed where a householder right would otherwise apply, and conservation-area and basement policies shape the council’s decision on any application. Separate again are listed building consent, Building Regulations approval, any landlord’s consent the lease requires and Party Wall notice, and each must be dealt with in its own right.
