What the council is building
Besides day-to-day services, the council pays for things that last: buildings, roads, parks, school places and council homes. From 2026/27 to 2029/30 it plans £135.0m of this work across the borough, and £317.2m on council homes, which have an account of their own paid for by rents.
Where the £135.0m goes
Open an area to see its schemes. Amounts are for the four years 2026/27 to 2029/30, as the council’s report rounds them.
New homes: the council's share outside the council homes account£36.6m
- Mund Street£0.3m
- Avonmore (the council's share outside the council homes account)£36.3m
Climate and transport£30.6m
- Pavements and roads (climate and transport)£0.6m
- Schemes paid for by Transport for London£8.6m
- Other climate and transport schemes£19.4m
- Green investment projects£2.0m
Schools and children£18.3m
- School places for children with special educational needs£9.3m
- School places£0.3m
- School windows and cutting carbon£3.9m
- School repairs£4.8m
Pavements, roads, street lights and parks£16.6m
- Pavements and roads£7.5m
- Replacing street light columns£1.4m
- Parks£7.7m
Council buildings£12.4m
- Repairs and step-free access in council buildings£10.3m
- Nourish project£0.2m
- Carnwath Road£1.9m
Town hall and civic campus£12.2m
- Hammersmith Town Hall refurbishment£8.9m
- Buying shop units£0.5m
- Work on the civic campus shop units£2.0m
- Fitting out the cinema£0.8m
Regeneration£3.4m
- Streets and spaces on the West Kensington and Gibbs Green estates£1.5m
- Costs of leaving a joint venture (WMC)£1.9m
Hammersmith Bridge£3.2m
- Hammersmith Bridge works£3.2m
CCTV£1.8m
- CCTV£1.8m
Show every scheme, year by year
| 2026/27 | 2027/28 | 2028/29 | 2029/30 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New homes: the council's share outside the council homes account | |||||
| Mund Street | £0.3m | – | – | – | £0.3m |
| Avonmore (the council's share outside the council homes account) | £7.8m | £26.5m | £2.0m | – | £36.3m |
| Climate and transport | |||||
| Pavements and roads (climate and transport) | £0.2m | £0.2m | £0.2m | £0.2m | £0.6m |
| Schemes paid for by Transport for London | £8.6m | – | – | – | £8.6m |
| Other climate and transport schemes | £18.4m | £1.0m | – | – | £19.4m |
| Green investment projects | £2.0m | – | – | – | £2.0m |
| Schools and children | |||||
| School places for children with special educational needs | £3.0m | £3.0m | £3.3m | – | £9.3m |
| School places | £0.3m | – | – | – | £0.3m |
| School windows and cutting carbon | £3.9m | – | – | – | £3.9m |
| School repairs | £1.6m | £1.6m | £1.6m | – | £4.8m |
| Pavements, roads, street lights and parks | |||||
| Pavements and roads | £1.9m | £1.9m | £1.9m | £1.9m | £7.5m |
| Replacing street light columns | £0.3m | £0.3m | £0.3m | £0.3m | £1.4m |
| Parks | £2.7m | £3.5m | £1.6m | – | £7.7m |
| Council buildings | |||||
| Repairs and step-free access in council buildings | £3.1m | £2.4m | £2.4m | £2.4m | £10.3m |
| Nourish project | £0.2m | – | – | – | £0.2m |
| Carnwath Road | £1.9m | – | – | – | £1.9m |
| Town hall and civic campus | |||||
| Hammersmith Town Hall refurbishment | £7.9m | £1.0m | – | – | £8.9m |
| Buying shop units | – | £0.5m | – | – | £0.5m |
| Work on the civic campus shop units | £2.0m | – | – | – | £2.0m |
| Fitting out the cinema | £0.8m | – | – | – | £0.8m |
| Regeneration | |||||
| Streets and spaces on the West Kensington and Gibbs Green estates | £1.0m | £0.5m | – | – | £1.5m |
| Costs of leaving a joint venture (WMC) | £1.9m | – | – | – | £1.9m |
| Hammersmith Bridge | |||||
| Hammersmith Bridge works | £3.2m | – | – | – | £3.2m |
| CCTV | |||||
| CCTV | £1.3m | £0.5m | – | – | £1.8m |
| All schemes, as the report totals them | £74.1m | £42.9m | £13.2m | £4.8m | £135.0m |
How it is paid for
The report rounds every figure, so these add up to £135.1m against the £135.0m of work.
Borrowing for building work still to repay, end of year: £375.8m at the start of 2026/27, and £356.5m forecast at the end of 2029/30 (down £19.3m). The council calls this its capital financing requirement.
Show the funding and debt year by year
| 2026/27 | 2027/28 | 2028/29 | 2029/30 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grants | £15.4m | £5.1m | £3.3m | – | £23.8m |
| Payments from developers | £26.5m | £3.0m | – | – | £29.5m |
| Selling land, buildings and homes | – | – | £2.0m | – | £2.0m |
| From yearly budgets and reserves | £2.3m | £0.5m | £1.6m | – | £4.4m |
| Borrowing | £29.9m | £34.3m | £6.3m | £4.8m | £75.4m |
| 2026/27 | 2027/28 | 2028/29 | 2029/30 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| End of year | £384.8m | £374.5m | £362.5m | £356.5m |
Pledges these schemes pay towards
Where a scheme is what a manifesto pledge names. Whether the pledge is kept is judged on its card.
- Avonmore (the council's share outside the council homes account), £36.3mLabour pledge: “Build over 10,000 genuinely affordable homes for local people”
- Green investment projects, £2.0mLabour pledge: “Install new green schemes to reduce energy bills and cut emissions”
- Parks, £7.7mLabour pledge: “Deliver over £8m new investment in playgrounds and parks”Conservative pledge: “Protect and enhance our precious green spaces as the lungs of the borough, get more trees planted, and encourage the community to get involved”
- CCTV, £1.8mLabour pledge: “Introduce AI-enabled CCTV that identifies weapons and criminals”
What has been paid so far
A plan is not spending. The council’s spend files show what it actually paid for building schemes, month by month: by ward, and every payment on the payments pages. Council decisions that approve or change schemes are on the decisions page.
About these figures
Full Council resolved on 25 Feb 2026 to approve £135.5m of building work and £318.8m for council homes. The report’s own tables add up to £135.0m and £317.2m, £0.5m and £1.6m less. This page shows the tables, because they name every scheme. If you know why the two differ, tell us at boroughs@guzh.uk.
A misprint in the report, on PDF page 26: in the funding of “new council homes and regeneration”, the line “Revenue Contributions and Other Reserves” has its four-year total is printed as a dash, but its 2027/28 figure is 7.1 and the totals for that year need it. We use £7.1m.
From Four Year Capital Programme 2026-30 and Capital Strategy 2026/27 (report to Full Council, 25 February 2026): Table 1 (PDF page 17), Tables 2 to 5 (pages 18 and 19) and Appendix 1 (pages 24 to 28).