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The Hammersmith Society Environment Awards Nominations 2008

The Hammersmith Society has received some interesting nominations for its annual Environment Awards this year and choosing a winner is going to be a difficult job for the judging committee.

The Hammersmith Society Environment Award, which is made to a development that the society feel best meets their ideals of preserving and enhancing the architecture and amenities of quality in Hammersmith.

A second award, the Nancey Goulden Award, is given for smaller schemes which have improved the local environment in some way - be it through a building or landscaping.

The Jane Mercer Award For Co-Operation, Collaboration And Consultation is a new award only made for the first time in 2006 and given for initiatives of benefit to Hammersmith which have involved proactive co-operation, collaboration and communication. This award is in memory of former Chairman of the Society Jane Mercer who died during 2005.

This year for the first time there is also to be a Conservation Award.

7 schemes have been shortlisted for the Awards and are:

• Maggie's Centre, Charing Cross Hospital
• The new social housing scheme behind Shepherd's Bush Place
• New infill social housing by DuCane Housing Association in Ducane Road
• Sacred Heart and Larmenier Primary School, Brook Green
• Infill glass extension to the Chinese church (former synagogue)
  Brook Green
• Office/design studio development in Alma Place off Harrow Road
• Renovation of St Andrej Bobola Church, Greenside Road

Wooden Spoons are given to ones that got it wrong. Suggestions that have been submitted this year for these wooden schemes are :

• Continuing poor state of the landscaping of the Thames Water roundabout Shepherd's Bush
• Council's street banners in King Street, round Hammersmith Broadway and down into Fulham Palace Road
• Total lack of the promised landscaping of the Temporary bus station in Hammersmith Broadway
• L'oreal ad, Hammersmith Broadway.

The winners will be announced at the Hammersmith Society's AGM to be held on Wednesday 21 May at the London Corinthian Sailing Club, Upper Mall W6. The meeting starts at 7pm

 

May 16, 2008