Boxing Day deadline for hall
RESIDENTS HAVE UNTIL DECEMBER 26 TO GIVE COMMENTS ON TRANSFORMATION OF LISTED BUILDING
RESIDENTS can help give Fulham a great Christmas gift this year in the shape of a new hotel, bar, restaurant, gym, spa and co-working offices.
People have until Boxing Day to give opinions on the plans to transform Fulham’s Grade II listed town hall.
The 19th Century hall in Fulham Road is being lined up as an 80-room hotel, with rooms housed in a fivestorey extension above the historic Concert Hall and Council Chamber.
There could also be a new bar, restaurant, gym, spa and co-working offices, according to plans filed to Hammersmith and Fulham Council by Ziser London.
Blueprints show its debating chamber, once the scene of verbal sparring between Labour and Tory councillors, will become a conference centre if the plans go ahead.
The first floor of the Harwood Road wing, built as an extension in the 1930s, would also become a coworking area. In total the building boasts 51,350sqft of floor space, the equivalent of a football pitch.
Ziser bought the town hall in February this year from a private owner for £10 million, after it was sold by Hammersmith and Fulham Council in 2014. The company held an exhibition in May, and a planning application was submitted in June.
Before judgement is passed by the council’s planning committee, Fulham residents have a chance to submit comments on the council’s website, with a deadline of December 26.
Built in 1890, the town hall was used as a municipal centre for local government until 1965, when council chiefs deemed it too small.
It continued as a destination for events and a popular setting for weddings thanks to its stained glass windows and Portland stone facade.
Go to https://public-access.lbhf. gov.uk/online-applications/. Then search using the reference code 2015/04022/FUL.