Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands achieves planning permission for two environmentally advanced residential schemes for client London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham.

The scheme at Lillie Road has 42 new homes (50% social rent/shared ownership), a new community hall and public play space for local residents set in a generous new landscape. The site presented challenging constraints including a former tenants’ hall and public right of way, existing mature trees and a neighbouring terrace of listed Georgian buildings. The new community hall is on the west of the apartment building and is set on a new pocket square with a footpath that ties the space into the West Kensington and Gibbs Green estate.

The Farm Lane scheme is on the site of a vacant children’s home and has 31 new dwellings of which 50% are social rent/shared ownership). The landscape design achieves a net gain in biodiversity and exceeds the required urban greening factor of 0.5. New trees set in green spaces are framed by lush hedges around the site, special bird and bat boxes will be installed and the buildings and external cycle and refuse stores have blue and green roofs.

The homes will be highly sustainable and constructed using high quality robust materials.  The brick clad buildings adopt zero-carbon design principles to meet Passivhaus Classic standards with mostly dual-aspect glazing, low form factor and high-performing building fabric. On-site renewables are maximised through the use of roof level photovoltaics and electric vehicle charging points will be provided in addition to generous cycle storage.

The buildings are highly flexible fully accessible layouts enabling future change to safeguard embodied carbon.

Cllr Andrew Jones, LBH&F Cabinet Member for The Economy, said: “There’s a chronic shortage of affordable homes right across the country, so we are working hard to deliver more of these to help make H&F the best place in which to live, work and socialise.’’

Douglas Inglis, Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands director, commented that: ‘’These homes have been carefully designed to sit in the urban fabric of existing communities with the lightest carbon footprint and a wonderful green outlook.’’