Vacant Fulham Reach Office Building to Become Care Home
Chivas House to be converted into 45-bedroom facility
The building has been unoccupied since 2019. Picture: Google Streetview
November 18, 2025
A vacant 1980s office building by the River Thames is to be refurbished into a 45-bedroom care home.
A 10-minute walk from Hammersmith station and within the Fulham Reach Conservation Area, Chivas House has sat empty since 2019. Care home provider KYN Devco and PPR Estates submitted plans earlier this year to turn the five-storey block into a new 45-bed site catering for older people.
Members sitting on Hammersmith and Fulham Council’s Planning and Development Control Committee last week unanimously approved the scheme.
David Roe, Group Origination and Development Director at KYN, said the team “look forward to developing the designs in detail prior to construction starting next year”.
Chivas House faces the Thames Path just across from the Fulham Reach Boat Club. KYN already runs care homes in Hurlingham and Bickley with further sites planned in Highgate and Kensington.
According to an officer’s report prepared ahead of the planning meeting: “The care home will provide ensuite bedrooms for all residents, along with communal lounges and dining areas, and will offer 24-hour care and nursing provision with specialist healthcare facilities and accommodation including for people living with dementia. The existing building will be retained, with the proposal primarily focusing on adapting and reusing the existing building.”
The proposed scheme received just one objection during consultation with 13 submissions in support. Officers had recommended the refurbishment be approved with the loss of the office space deemed to be justified.
One question raised during last week’s meeting related to the lack of affordable provision, specifically for local people within the scheme.
Cllr Nicole Trehy described the proposal as “an absolutely delightful scheme in a beautiful part of the world” though queried this element. She was told by a council officer that the intention is to secure contributions towards affordable placements through the Section 106 agreement, a contract finalised between the local authority and the developer.
Mr Roe told councillors the plans will deliver “new and much-needed jobs in the area” alongside the revitalisation of a “tired and redundant office building”.
Following the meeting he told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS), “We are delighted that the committee have unanimously passed a resolution to approve the application for a 45-bed care home. We look forward to developing the designs in detail prior to construction starting next year.
“KYN’s vision is to create care homes where our own mothers and fathers – our kin – would be happy to live. Our aim is to reimagine and transform what later life looks like and reframe standards in this category.”
Ben Lynch – Local Democracy Reporter