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Some topics from Hammersmith Today Website which may be of interest ...
- Hammersmith and Fulham Council’s cabinet is set to consider a new plan which incorporates the replacement of Hammersmith Flyover with a tunnel.
- Council bumps up proposed Garden Waste Collection Charge
Replacement of Hammersmith
Flyover with a tunnel.
Hammersmith and Fulham Council’s cabinet is set to consider a new plan which incorporates the replacement of Hammersmith Flyover with a tunnel.
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The borough is looking to replace the 1960s flyover as part of its long-term plans for a key town centre, where nearly 3,000 flats would be built. The Hammersmith Town Centre Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) details how it intends on knocking down the ‘eyesore’ flyover and introducing a ‘flyunder’ to improve the townscape and ease traffic.
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Council bumps up proposed
Garden Waste Collection Charge
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The annual cost of a garden waste collection service in Hammersmith and Fulham is to be £25more expensive than initially proposed, after council benchmarking found the fee would be the cheapest among local authorities in London.
The council had included a provisional £65 subscription fee for the new collection service in its 2024/25 budget, which was approved earlier this year.
Cllr Sharon Holder, Cabinet Member for the Public Realm, has however now green-lit upping the annual fee to £90, after subsequent research identified the charge “would be the cheapest subscription in London” alongside further consideration of the costs involved.
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The £65 charge was revealed in the run-up to the council’s 2024/25 budget, with documents detailing how the service was expected to bring in £650,000, assuming 10,000 households sign up. The ongoing cost to the local authority to run the scheme was estimated at £278,000.
In a new decision notice published this week, Cllr Holder approved a recommendation from officers to increase the charge to £90 a year following further work benchmarking Hammersmith and Fulham against other London councils, plus additional consideration of “the costs of providing the services from a collection and disposal perspective”.
The average annual fee among the capital’s local authorities is £75, officers wrote, though these are typically seasonal or fortnightly collections. Hammersmith and Fulham’s scheme, which is to be introduced on July 22, will involve up to 49 collections a year, primarily weekly though with a break in December/January.
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The revised charge will bring in a further £250,000 than the original rate, again assuming 10,000 households sign up. The frequency of collections and charges are to be reviewed annually. Most homes in Hammersmith and Fulham do not have a garden that would require the service, with sign-up optional.
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