Fulham FC Banners Near Bishops Park to Stay
Council discounts hundreds of objections and plans to add more
Fulham FC banners on a street next to the park. Picture: H&F Council
July 10, 2026
Fulham FC banners installed near Bishops Park will be staying up despite a backlash from outraged locals.
The banners are just some of 36 commercial advertisements that have been erected in and around Grade II-listed green space.
Hammersmith and Fulham Council has already erected 12 non-illuminated double-sided banners – some of which are for Fulham FC – on Stevenage Road, which borders the park. It now plans to put up five more of the adverts in this location.
Eighteen banners have also been installed within Bishops Park itself, many of which showcase the new Fulham Pier development.
On Tuesday (July 7), the Planning and Development Committee approved two planning applications for the advertisements despite hundreds of objections.
Marc Medina, who has lived in the Bishops Park area for 30 years, told the local authority that the advertisements in the park had changed the character of the green space.
“For 133 years people have come to Bishops Park for its openness, tranquillity, its historic landscape and distinctive civic character. Today for the first time that experience has changed,” he told the committee.
“People visiting from either Bishops Road, Stevenage Road or Putney Bridge are immediately, and I do mean immediately, met by commercial advertising that’s promoting a single private development. Those advertisements continue throughout the full length of the park.”
The advertisements located inside of the park are 1.6 metres high and 0.6 meters in width.
Meanwhile, the banners erected on Stevenage Road are slightly larger – at 2.2 metres high and 0.785 metres wide.
The applications for Bishops Park and Stevenage Road received 164 objections and 95 objections respectively.
Fulham FC banners in Bishop Park. Picture: H&F Council
A council case officer, commenting on the first application, said: “The design, size and siting of the advertisements are considered to be acceptable in visual amenity terms and do not have a detrimental effect on the residential amenities of the occupiers of neighbouring properties, or on highway safety.
“It is considered that the banner advertisements preserve the character and appearance of the Bishops Park conservation area and the registered historic park and garden and do not cause harm to the settings or significance of adjacent designated and non-designated heritage assets.”
Ben Lynch - Local Democracy Reporter