Construction Management Plans in Hammersmith and Fulham

Hammersmith & Fulham manages construction through its Construction Code of Practice, issued in April 2023, alongside the basement, air quality and logistics policies of its 2018 Local Plan and Planning Guidance SPD. The council does not publish a CMP pro-forma. Instead, planning conditions typically require a Demolition and Construction Management Plan, a Construction Logistics Plan prepared to TfL guidance and phase-by-phase Air Quality Dust Management Plans on the council’s own templates, with Section 106 monitoring contributions on top. Here is what each part requires.

Hammersmith & Fulham’s Construction Code of Practice

H&F issued its Construction Code of Practice (Version 1.0, dated February 2023) on 1 April 2023. It is a council policy attached to relevant planning approvals and building control applications, and any work that would deviate from it, such as noisy work outside permitted hours, needs prior agreement through a Section 61 consent. Before work starts, every site must be placed in one of three categories, agreed with the council’s Noise and Nuisance Team, which sets the minimum neighbour liaison and noise monitoring and whether a Section 61 consent is required:

• Category 1 (100 or more new homes, or 10,000 sq m or more of floorspace): a Section 61 application must be submitted
• Category 2 (10 or more new-build homes, 1,000 sq m or more of new-build floorspace, or any basement of two or more levels): a Section 61 application should be considered, and if none is made the council will serve a Section 60 notice
• Category 3 (everything else, including single-level basements): no Section 61 is required, although the council may serve a Section 60 notice, and a site can be upgraded where neighbours are particularly sensitive or significant high-impact structural work or substantial refurbishment runs for 12 months or more

What Applications and Conditions Require

H&F’s local validation checklist for major applications (10 or more homes, or 1,000 sq m or more of non-residential floorspace) asks for a draft construction plan and a draft logistics plan with the application, and a demolition management plan for any demolition, plus a demolition logistics plan where demolition is substantial. On smaller schemes, the checklist asks for a demolition management plan where the demolition is in a conservation area. The Planning Guidance SPD (February 2018) adds that a Demolition Method Statement and Construction Management Plan will be required for substantial developments and wherever the site is close to other premises, and the supporting text to Local Plan Policy T7 says any development involving excavation works will need a Construction Logistics Plan.

Location matters too. The borough’s 44 conservation areas cover about half of H&F, and sites in the north of the borough within the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC) area are planned by OPDC, not H&F. The 2018 Local Plan remains the adopted plan, although a draft replacement went to Regulation 18 consultation in October 2025.

After permission, these are secured as pre-commencement conditions. Recent H&F permissions typically require:

• A Demolition and Construction Management Plan covering dust, noise, vibration, lighting, delivery locations, the permitted working hours, advance notice to neighbours and a publicly displayed contact for the site
• A Demolition/Construction Logistics Plan prepared in line with TfL guidance, covering vehicle routing, site layout, wheel washing, skips, access points and membership of the Considerate Contractors Scheme
• On some schemes, CLOCS membership, FORS Silver or above for all vehicles connected to the works, a Direct Vision Standard rating of 3 stars or more for vehicles over 12 tonnes, and before-and-after highway condition surveys
• Separate Air Quality Dust Management Plans for the demolition and construction phases, and approval of the Non-Road Mobile Machinery to be used before enabling works start

Construction Working Hours in Hammersmith & Fulham

Noisy work audible at the site boundary is permitted 8am–6pm Monday to Friday and 8am–1pm on Saturdays, and not at all on Sundays or bank and public holidays. Concrete deliveries and the collection of construction and demolition waste count as noisy work, and the Planning Guidance SPD applies the same hours to deliveries of materials, equipment and machinery. High impact activities (demolition, pile breaking and reduction, and concrete break-out using powered percussive equipment) are further restricted to 9am–12 noon and 2pm–5.30pm on weekdays and 9am–12 noon on Saturdays, unless neighbours agree otherwise or evidence submitted to the Noise and Nuisance Team before commencement shows the noise can be kept below 70 dB LAeq,10hr. Noisy work outside the standard hours needs a Section 61 consent, given only in special circumstances such as traffic restrictions, emergencies, public safety or engineering reasons.

The Code does not set a fixed school-run delivery window. It asks that delivery times take account of local issues such as commuter traffic, transport hubs and schools, recommends a booking system to stagger deliveries, and expects trained traffic marshals at site access points. For piling, it favours augered, CFA, secant, diaphragm-wall or rotary methods and requires non-percussive pile reduction (hydraulic cropping, or the Elliott or Recipeux methods), with the construction management plan showing how these have been used.

Section 61 Consents: Lead Times and Fees

H&F’s contractor guidance recommends contacting officers at least two months before works start, then a staged process: a preparatory stage around eight weeks before works, a draft application at least six weeks before (the council generally responds to drafts in about two weeks, although it is under no legal duty to), and the final application strictly 28 days before work starts. The council counts the 28-day period from the date it receives the application, not the date it was sent, and will not issue a consent if construction or demolition, beyond minor enabling work agreed in advance, has already started. Its application template is optional: applications can follow the layout set out in the guidance, and the council advises using an acoustic consultant.

Once a consent is granted, material changes such as extended hours or different major plant need a dispensation, applied for at least 14 days in advance. The council’s contractor page lists fees, labelled 2024–25, of £347.80 for a Section 61 or Section 60 dispensation or variation, and £87, £173 or £347.80 for small, medium or large pre-application advice. The Planning Guidance SPD also sets construction vibration limits of 3 mm/s PPV at homes, listed buildings, offices and buildings in a poor state of repair, and 5 mm/s PPV at buildings that are not vibration-sensitive.

Basements in Hammersmith & Fulham

A borough-wide Article 4 Direction has removed permitted development rights for basements since 26 April 2018 (outside the OPDC area), so every basement, lightwell or other development below a house or its curtilage needs planning permission. Local Plan Policy DC11 limits new basements to one storey, with exceptions possible on large sites, and to no more than 50% of the depth of the garden or of the host building, and requires a Construction Method Statement (CMS) by a qualified structural or civil engineer with every basement application, including a construction traffic management plan. H&F lists a missing basement construction method statement among the most common reasons applications are made invalid. Basements also set the Code category: two or more levels is Category 2 and a single level is Category 3.

The supporting text to DC11 asks applicants to make the CMS available to neighbouring owners at the same time as the application, and to locate the building compound and skip on site wherever possible. For listed buildings, the Planning Guidance SPD (Key Principle BL2) also requires details of the construction and excavation method, temporary works, spoil removal and protection of historic fabric. The CMS is expected to cover:

• Appointment of a qualified civil or structural engineer
• Ground and hydrological conditions, including groundwater flow and structural stability during excavation and demolition
• Temporary propping and works, sequenced to minimise the effect on neighbours, and borehole drilling
• Impact on trees and cumulative impacts with other development
• Professional verification of the noise, vibration and dust controls
• A construction traffic management plan

Air Quality, Dust and Machinery

The whole borough is an Air Quality Management Area for nitrogen dioxide and PM10, and Local Plan Policy CC10 requires air quality assessments to consider the construction and demolition phase separately. Where the council requires one, an Air Quality Dust Management Plan (AQDMP) must be submitted for each of the demolition and construction phases, including a dust risk assessment to IAQM guidance and prepared on the council’s AQDMP templates (A–D), available on request from its construction air quality team. Recent permissions show what that means in practice, even on small schemes:

• Template A for demolition and Template C for construction where real-time monitoring is required, with at least two MCERTS-compliant PM10 monitors on the site boundary, a site action level of 190 µg/m³ (1-hour mean) and live data shared with the council
• Templates B and D on smaller sites, such as a six-flat conversion, with dust deposition monitors instead
• Non-Road Mobile Machinery meeting Stage V emission criteria, with CESAR Emissions Compliance Verification, registered on the GLA NRMM register and approved before enabling works start
• A Section 106 contribution of £5,000 a year towards the council’s AQDMP compliance monitoring

Highways Licences, Suspensions and Monitoring Fees

H&F does not publish a flat CMP review fee. Instead, Section 106 agreements on recent schemes include £3,000 a year towards monitoring the Demolition and Construction Logistics Plan, alongside the £5,000 a year for AQDMP monitoring, for the duration of demolition and construction. Highways licences are applied for separately: only scaffolding companies can apply for scaffold licences and only building contractors for hoardings, and the parking suspension must be booked first because its reference number is needed for the licence application.

H&F’s highways licensing charges from 1 April 2026 are:

• Scaffolding and hoarding: £660 a month for single commercial frontages and residential sites up to 15m, or £1,170 a month for longer sites, plus a damage deposit of at least £1,000; allow five working days, and renew at least five working days before expiry
• Cranes: £610 a fortnight for cherry pickers under 50 tonnes or £1,230 for cranes over 50 tonnes, plus a £1,000 deposit; allow 10 working days, or eight weeks where a road closure is needed, with a traffic order costing £2,750
• Skips and builders’ materials: £165 a fortnight each
• Parking bay suspensions: £48 per bay per chargeable day for the first five days, rising to £74 (days 6–31), £99 (days 32–93) and £110 from day 94, with eight days’ notice for up to six bays for up to three days, two weeks for longer or larger suspensions up to 12 bays, and four weeks for more than 12 bays or more than a week

How CMP Construct Helps in Hammersmith and Fulham

CMP Construct prepares council-compliant Construction Management Plans across Hammersmith and Fulham and more than 20 London boroughs. We draft most plans within 7–10 working days, submit in the format Hammersmith & Fulham Council expects, and handle officer comments through to discharge of your condition. Where your condition also asks for a Construction Traffic Management Plan (CTMP), a Construction Logistics Plan (CLP) or a Construction Environmental Management Plan (CEMP), we produce them as one consistent package. New to the process? Start with our complete guide to Construction Management Plans or see what a CMP costs.

Official Hammersmith and Fulham Guidance

The council documents below set out Hammersmith & Fulham Council's own requirements. We work to these day to day; they are linked here so you can verify any requirement directly:

• H&F Construction Code of Practice (Version 1.0, February 2023)
• H&F construction guidance for contractors: Section 61 forms and fees
• H&F Local Plan (February 2018): Policies DC11, CC10 and T7
• H&F highways licensing fees and charges (April 2026)

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