Council Approves Redevelopment of Lillie Road Building
Former tenants' hall and nursery building to be turned into flats
A visualisation from the council of the new Lillie Road development
June 12, 2023
Permission has been given for the redevelopment of a former tenants’ hall and nursery building on Lillie Road into 42 new flats.
The council’s own scheme was approved at a planning committee meeting on Tuesday 6 June. As well as the flats the scheme will include a replacement community hall, and a new public play space with new landscaping. 21 of the flats will be available at rents classed as affordable.
There will be a mixture of one, two and three-bedroom flats, with some available at social rent levels or on shared ownership schemes. In addition, 10 per cent of the development’s new homes will be fully accessible, with five dedicated car parking spaces for Blue Badge holders.
All the homes will be built to ecological ‘Passivhaus’ standards, featuring air source heat pumps and solar panels to reduce energy bills for residents.
Three electric vehicle charging points will be installed, along with secure cycling storage facilities. Special bird and bat boxes will also be incorporated into the building, along with a new sapling tree planted for every home built.
The council earlier this year gave the green light for 31 flats in Farm Lane in Fulham. It currently has a commitment to build or start building 3,000 new affordable housing units over the next four years.
A CGI image from the council of the Farm Lane development
Meanwhile, construction work has begun to build 134 new units on the Aintree Estate in Fulham.
Located on the site of the former Hartopp Point and Lannoy Point, between Dawes Road and Munster Road, the new homes will likewise be built to the highest ‘Passivhaus’ ecological standards with 84 per cent designated as affordable.
The council says that local residents in housing need will get priority to secure one of the new flats being built.
Cllr Andrew Jones, H&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.
“It’s also vital that local families, with real need, are first to be given the chance to move into these new homes in Fulham.”
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