Macfarlane Place Wins Hammersmith Society Award

Macfarlane Place wins Environment Award

Macfarlane Place on Wood Lane has won an Environment Award at the 2025 Hammersmith Society Awards, held last week at Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith. 

According to the Hammersmith Society wesbite: "Finely detailed brickwork is the feature in this new development on the corner of Macfarlane Road and Wood Lane opposite Westfield, designed by Maccreanor Lavington for Peabody Housing Association. 

It replaces the former BBC car park with a pair of appropriately-sized mid-rise buildings, providing 142 affordable homes in a mixture of shared ownership, London Affordable Rent and London Living Rent with 68 x 1 bed, 67 x 2 bed and 7 x 3-bed flats."

Wooden Spoon Awards

The Hammersmith Society also nominates buildings for a "Wooden Spoon" award. This year the Uxbridge Road was nominated, as part of the "Fix Uxbridge Rd" campaign. However this year's Wooden Spoon winner was the "Hammersmith Belle" pub on King St, formerly the "Hampshire Hog", and a now a sports bar, with all the charm of a "Bulgarian Black Sea beach resort".

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