Hammersmith and Fulham Council is inviting local residents to comment on planning applications submitted by EC Properties Ltd, the company proposing to redevelop Earls Court.

The applications consist of two outline planning applications and a conservation area consent application for the Earls Court site, plus a detailed planning application to redevelop the Seagrave Road Lorry Park site and land off Roxby Place.

Together, these applications seek permission for the redevelopment of an area of 28 hectares (69 acres), including the Earls Court Exhibition Centres, the Lillie Bridge Rail Depot and the West Kensington and Gibbs Green Housing Estates. 

The Seagrave Road application seeks permission to provide 808 residential properties, including 200 affordable properties, constructed in 8 residential blocks, ranging from 4 to 16 storeys height above ground level. In the centre of the development is a garden square. The application also includes a gym facility with associated café and 485 car parking spaces.

The affordable housing provision would comprise the first phase of the development enabling the regeneration of the Gibbs Green and West Kensington estates being considered under a separate outline planning application.

In the event the wider Earl’s Court proposals do not occur, this application would still seek to provide an affordable housing provision of 200 units on this site.

The proposed development at Earls Court meanwhile would provide up to 7,500 homes, plus a new high street offering retail, commercial and community facilities, and a new public Lost River Park.

You can view all the documents related to the applications and make online comments at the council's website. You will find the Seagrave Road documents here and the Earls Court documents here.

The application drawings and supporting documents including the Environmental Statement can also be seen between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday (excluding public holidays) at Hammersmith Town Hall in King Street.

Copies of the full Environmental Statement can be purchased from Dp9 Planning at a charge of £1,500. Alternatively, Dp9 Planning will provide either CD’s or memory sticks detailing the Environmental Statement free of charge. Please write to:

Dp9 Planning, 
100 Pall Mall, 
London SW1Y 5NQ

As well as commenting on the website, you can make your comments on the proposal by writing to the planning case officers.

If you are commenting on Seagrave Road, write to John Sanchez, quoting the application reference number 2011/02000/FUL and marking all correspondence as Seagrave Road Car Park.

To comment on Earls Court, write to John Finlayson, quoting the application reference number 2011/02001/OUT and marking all correspondence as Earls Court Application 2.

Post your letter to:

Development Management Services 
Hammersmith Town Hall Extension 
Kings Street 
London 
W6 9JU 

 
If you would like to discuss the proposal please call John Sanchez on 0208 753 3346, Ieuan Bellis 0208 753 3474 or John Finlayson 0208 753 6743

EC Properties have produced a website about the proposed development, My Earls Court.com and are also inviting people to make their comments on its forum.

September 9, 2011