Investment Opportunities
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Green Belt
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Rail station
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The new Civic Campus will be one of the most environmentally friendly listed buildings in the country. It will also be one of the most accessible buildings for disabled people in the world.
It will include the following community benefits:
The Earls Court site is owned by Earls Court Partnership Limited (ECDL), a joint venture between Delancey (on behalf of its client fund DV4 and the Dutch pension fund manager, APG) and Transport for London (TfL). It will deliver 12,000 jobs and 4,800 homes on the 40-acre site. Its masterplan will include providing workspace for major global firms and start-ups to move into as H&F becomes the next global hotspot for business. As one of the first major pieces of urban regeneration to be planned and brought forward in the post-pandemic environment, the new masterplan vision will be based on four priorities:
Planning application scheduled for submission this summer 2024.
The White City Innovation District brings together educators, innovators, creators, artists and residents to collaborate and grow. A creative cluster includes companies such as the BBC, ITV and Publicis Media. The science and technology cluster includes Blenheim Chalcot, the MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences and more than 60 life sciences start-ups. These clusters are anchored by Imperial College London which has developed space at White City for companies from around the globe to work directly alongside their world-leading academics. Their academic specialties in White City include molecular sciences, biomedical engineering, med-tech and public health, as well as many multidisciplinary institutes. Businesses of all sizes can choose from a vast selection of flexible office and laboratory space to grow in White City. This includes the Translation & Innovation Hub (I-Hub) and the Scale Space buildings on Imperial’s 23 acre campus, and more than 17 acres of office and laboratory space in White City Place and Television Centre. Small organisations can benefit from the coworking and small office offers at Central Working and Huckletree White City. L’Oreal has moved into their new building in White City for their 3,000 employees. While ITV are set to move their headquarters, with 2000 employees, to White City in 2022. Imperial College London has also broken ground for a new School of Public Health which is currently under construction.
As a major commercial centre in the heart of west London, there’s a growing range of exciting mixed-use development opportunities in Hammersmith.
The forthcoming Hammersmith masterplan builds upon the area’s existing strengths as a major commercial, arts, cultural and retail centre alongside encouraging new high-quality development. It includes ambitious plans that would see the ailing A4 Hammersmith flyover demolished and replaced with a tunnel – reclaiming space above ground for new public realm and buildings and reconnecting the town centre to the river. The masterplan will also focus on creating a safe, accessible and welcoming environment transforming the public realm and transport network to create new public space. New developments will contribute to addressing the climate emergency and ensure a more green and liveable Hammersmith, able to thrive in a changing economic climate.
The £1.4billion regeneration of Olympia is set to be London’s newest creative district. A destination for art, culture, education, entertainment, exhibitions, music, incredible offices and some of the best food and drink in town. The development boasts an enhanced exhibition centre, a new 1,575-seat theatre operated by Trafalgar Entertainment Group, a new music venue operated by Anschutz Entertainment Group, a Hyatt Regency hotel, a Citizen M hotel, a new jazz club style restaurant, a performing arts school, 550,000sqft of office space with state of the art amenities, and 2.5acres of new public realm space.
Project Owner: Yoo Capital and Deutsche Finance International
Development value: £2bn +
Development cost: £1.4
Planning status: Consented
Completion date: Q4 2024
Hammersmith & Fulham is well on its way to becoming the best place in which to live, work and play in Europe. With exciting regeneration projects right across the borough from White City and Hammersmith town centre to Earls Court and Old Oak, we’re expecting more than 22,000 new homes and 38,000 jobs to be created over the next decade.
Through our pioneering Industrial Strategy with Imperial College London, we continue to use the power of local government to support growth, bring partners together, regenerate town centres, build affordable workspaces and teach essential skills.
White City is a now a leading innovation district able to compete with the best in the 21st Century. Over 150 life science businesses have been created, grown or moved into H&F in just four years, alongside high growth anchor businesses and science and tech unicorns. We are delivering more than 1.5million square feet of high-tech workspace as part of major regeneration totalling over £10bn.
H&F is also a great location for businesses. It is close and well connected to Heathrow and boasts exceptional transport links with 16 Tube stations. The West End and the City are also within easy reach. The new HS2 line at Old Oak Common will connect the borough to the rest of the UK, speed up journey times to other major cities and bring a new Overground station to Old Oak Common Lane.
Population projections 2021 183,000
Population projections 2050 257,101
London plan new homes (ten-year target) 16,090
Building council homes for Londoners (four-year programme) 251
Phil Clement, Inward Investment & Internationalisation Manager
Phil.Clement@lbhf.gov.uk
“Since our Industrial Strategy was launched, 25% of residents work in the science and tech sectors which accounts for 17% of the jobs in the borough, significantly higher than the London average. We must also provide our young people with the qualifications they need for future careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, by supporting STEM start-ups and innovators and by creating a business environment where climate innovations can flourish.
By putting in place the right infrastructure, education and training and by building a culture of innovation, there’s no reason why the steam engine of this next Industrial Revolution – the Green Revolution – that repairs the carbon-based damage of the past, but still captures the same entrepreneurial vision, can’t be grown here, in H&F.”
