North of Goldhawk Road, 1997Ravenscourt and Starch Green north of Goldhawk Road
Conservation area 8 in the Local Plan’s table, first designated in February 1974 and extended three times up to March 1991, has a profile that describes it taking in varied Victorian and Edwardian housing in the Starch Green area north of Goldhawk Road. Starch Green itself, between Askew Road and Ashchurch Road, is named, the profile says, after a laundry or laundry ground once there; the profile describes it and its mature tree, King’s Parade near the Goldhawk Road junction and No. 215 Askew Road, a villa of about 1830 converted into The Eagle public house, in its sub-area A text. Sub-area B holds the Victorian pairs and terraces, and sub-area C the later Edwardian housing, laid out on a more open plan, and Wendell Park.
LBHF Local Plan 2018: policy document · LBHF: Ravenscourt and Starch Green Conservation Area character profile, designation and character · LBHF: Ravenscourt and Starch Green Conservation Area character profile, part 4: Starch Green, Askew Road and the Victorian housing north of Goldhawk Road · LBHF: Ravenscourt and Starch Green Conservation Area character profile, design guidelines, printed pages 20 to 24
The profile’s design guidelines run across all three sub-areas: rooflines should stay undisturbed, and Napoleon Hats, decorative ridge tiles, finials, cast-iron gutters and downpipes and original roof materials should be kept. In sub-area C it singles out roofs punched through by badly designed dormers and altered glazing patterns as the greatest risks, and notes that inappropriate alterations are particularly evident at the rear of properties in Wendell Road, a street whose Nos. 65–103 are in garden-suburb style. For directions and Buildings of Merit, do not stop at the lists printed in the profile, which the council’s page for the area says are not complete; check the direction summaries and the 2015 register too.
LBHF: Ravenscourt and Starch Green Conservation Area character profile, design guidelines, printed pages 20 to 24 · LBHF: Ravenscourt and Starch Green Conservation Area
In the August 2015 version of the Buildings of Merit register the council keeps, the entries here include Nos. 1–24 and 25–32 Ashchurch Park Villas, Nos. 8–27A and 34–42 Ashchurch Grove, The Shrubbery and its coach house on Ashchurch Terrace, the folly behind No. 2 Rylett Road, rescued from dereliction from 1976, and on Askew Road King’s Parade, Nos. 205–211 (odd) and The Eagle at Nos. 213 and 215. Wendell Park School and St Saviour’s with St Mary Church on Cobbold Road are on it too.
LBHF: Local Register of Buildings of Merit, as at August 2015 · LBHF: Ravenscourt and Starch Green Conservation Area character profile, design guidelines, printed pages 20 to 24
Directions No. 1 and 4; list 2011Article 4 directions on the Rylett and Ashchurch streets
Hammersmith and Fulham’s summary list of properties affected by Article 4 directions, updated on 1 October 2011, gives 8.5.79 as the date of Direction No. 1 and 2.1.85 for No. 4, both Ravenscourt and Starch Green directions, and records both at Rylett Road 1–43 (odd) and 2–50 (even), Rylett Crescent 1–23 (odd) and 2–34 (even), Binden Road 1–35 (odd) and 2–34 (even) and most of Ashchurch Park Villas, where Nos. 12, 16 and 19 carry No. 4 alone. The list warns that it may contain errors and points readers to the direction itself for the properties and rights concerned. The No. 1 summary note does not name Rylett Crescent, so ask the council whether No. 1 applies there and, if it does, which rights it removes.
LBHF: properties affected by Article 4 directions, list last amended 1 October 2011 · LBHF: properties affected by Article 4 directions · LBHF: Ravenscourt and Starch Green (No. 1) Article 4 direction summary
The council’s non-technical summary notes, which it says are not part of the legal documentation, describe the controls. Under No. 1, planning permission is needed at the listed numbers in Ashchurch Grove, Ashchurch Park Villas, Ashchurch Terrace, Binden Road and Rylett Road to paint unpainted brickwork, to change roof coverings at the rear, or to alter a roof, gable or dormer at the front, coverings included. No. 4 does the same for enlarging, improving or otherwise altering the front elevation at its listed numbers in Ashchurch Park Villas, Ashchurch Grove, Rylett Road, Rylett Crescent and Binden Road, and adds gates, fences and walls on the front boundary at Ashchurch Park Villas 1–32 and 15, 16 and 25–27 Ashchurch Grove.
LBHF: Ravenscourt and Starch Green (No. 1) Article 4 direction summary · LBHF: Ravenscourt and Starch Green (No. 4) Article 4 direction summary
Basements are covered by a borough-wide direction: made on 25 April 2017 and in force since 26 April 2018, it removes permitted development rights for basement development across Hammersmith and Fulham, except in the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation area. The Coningham and Lime Grove profile, as updated in 2004, recorded no Article 4 directions in that conservation area at the time, so ask the council whether a direction for that conservation area has been made since.
LBHF: Article 4 directions, including the borough-wide basement direction · LBHF: Coningham and Lime Grove Conservation Area character profile, approved 9 February 2000, updated June 2004
Coningham 2000; Shepherds Bush 1997Coningham and Lime Grove, and the conservation area by the Common
The Coningham and Lime Grove character profile, for conservation area 33, was approved on 9 February 2000 and updated in June 2004. The area was designated on 17 January 1990 to protect its double-fronted stucco villas, three-storey brick terraces and two-storey detached villas from demolition, cladding and roof extensions, and on 2 July 2002 it was extended to include Nos. 54 to 64 (even) and 54A Goldhawk Road. Its design guidelines treat a roof terrace formed by cutting into the slates over a rear extension as needing planning permission, and say such terraces should be resisted.
LBHF: Coningham and Lime Grove Conservation Area character profile, approved 9 February 2000, updated June 2004 · LBHF Local Plan 2018: policy document
The Shepherds Bush Conservation Area, number 21, was designated in October 1984, extended in July 1986 to include the Common, the entertainment facilities on its west side and the housing on its south-west side, and extended again in April 1991. Its profile, approved on 22 September 1997, records that by the late 19th century market gardens had given way to row upon row of speculatively built terraced houses for white-collar workers commuting to the City.
LBHF: Shepherds Bush Conservation Area character profile, approved 22 September 1997 · LBHF: Shepherds Bush Conservation Area character profile, designation and history · LBHF Local Plan 2018: policy document
Local Plan, February 2018The Local Plan, town centres and basements
The Local Plan adopted on 28 February 2018 is the council’s basis for planning decisions, and a Planning Guidance SPD was adopted in the same month. The plan treats Shepherd’s Bush as a metropolitan centre and lists Askew Road among its key local centres; the Wendell Park ward profile places most of that ward’s commercial premises along Askew Road. For extensions and alterations, Policy DC4 asks for additions subservient to the parent building that never dominate it in bulk, scale, materials or design.
LBHF: Local Plan, adopted 28 February 2018 · LBHF Local Plan 2018: policy document · LBHF: Wendell Park ward profile 2024
A new or extended basement is tested against Policy DC11, which keeps its reach into or under the garden to half the depth of the host building, measured from the principal rear elevation, and to half the garden’s depth, limits it to a single storey, with exceptions possible on large sites, requires at least one metre of soil over any part beneath a garden and asks for a Construction Method Statement by a qualified structural or civil engineer with every basement application.
LBHF Local Plan 2018: policy document
Order windows, book roof work or start digging only once the consent route for the exact house number is clear. Ask, one regime at a time: whether the job needs planning permission, remembering that a flat has no householder permitted development rights and that Direction No. 1 or No. 4 may apply to the number; whether the building is listed, so that the work needs listed building consent; what the conservation area guidance expects; whether Building Regulations approval is required; whether the lease reserves consent to the landlord; and whether the work is notifiable under the Party Wall rules. Across the borough outside the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation area, basement development needs planning permission under the borough-wide direction.
