Grenfell
Grenfell: RBKC referred to CPS for corporate manslaughter
Kensington and Chelsea Council is one of 20 organisations the Met has referred to the CPS over Grenfell. Charging decisions are due before June 2027.
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Events
What's On in Kensington: Halloween in Holland Park, Freddie
The free Freddie Mercury display opens at the V&A on 24 October and Holland Park's ticketed Halloween night is on the 31st. 40 dated listings to 14 November.
What's on
Tabernacle accordion concert: two orchestras, 25 Oct, £12
London Accordion Orchestra and Germany's Akkordeon-Studio-Orchester Bielefeld play The Tabernacle, Notting Hill, on 25 October at 2pm. Tickets £15 or £12.
Kensington
Kensington parking wardens: council pays to avert strike
Kensington and Chelsea will fund a three-year pay deal for its parking wardens to head off a repeat of the 2023 strike. The cost is exempt from publication.
Christmas
Kensington Palace at Christmas: Victoria display from 25 Nov
Kensington Palace's Christmas display runs 25 November to 3 January, included in the £19 adult ticket. Closed 24 to 26 December, open New Year's Day.
South Kensington
V&A South Kensington Strike: What's Open 25 and 26 Sep
Only the Schiaparelli show, the café and some ground floor galleries are open at the V&A on 25 and 26 September while Prospect and PCS staff strike.
South Kensington
South Kensington station step-free work starts by December
TfL intends to award the South Kensington step-free contract to Costain. First work starts at 34 Thurloe Street before the end of 2026, the station by 2031.
Kensington
Kensington libraries review: your say closes 17 November
The council is asking what its libraries should do next, and its own page says money is why. The survey closes 17 November, with forums from 13 October.
South Kensington
South Kensington mirrors: both her parents had dementia
Dineo's father had young onset Alzheimer's at 58. Her mother's symptoms were mistaken for grief. Her own account of both diagnoses, told in full.
Planning
Notting Hill Gate: shops cut 681 sq m, offices up 332
Councillors approved revised Newcombe House drawings on 15 September: 681 sq m less shop space, 332 sq m more office, a medical centre 9 sq m over minimum.
House prices
Kensington flats hit £971,688, lowest since June 2013
The average Kensington and Chelsea flat sold for £971,688 in July, the first month under £1m since 2013. June has been revised back above the line.
West Kensington
West Kensington heart surgery fund reaches £75,725
Roshan Sohi, 24, needs an operation his surgeon says should happen within a month. The NHS wait is nine to twelve months. The appeal is at £75,725.
South Kensington
South Kensington tube: six Alzheimer's mirrors to 4 Oct
Six mirrors sit before the ticket barriers until Sunday 4 October, asking commuters whether the first person cured of Alzheimer's is standing beside them.
Kensington and Chelsea is one of the smallest boroughs in London and one of the most varied. Knightsbridge, Chelsea and Holland Park at one end, Earl’s Court, West Brompton and World’s End in the middle, Notting Hill and Ladbroke Grove going north, and North Kensington and Golborne at the top, where some of the most deprived neighbourhoods in England sit a few streets from some of the most expensive.
The Kensington Post covers all of it. The Royal Borough decides the things residents actually deal with: parking zones and permits, what may be built or altered in a conservation area, basement applications, licensing on the busier streets, and where each council tax band lands. Those decisions are published, and we read them and write down what they say with a link to the file.
What we publish here
- Local Info: house prices, Tube zones and fares, and roadworks, permits and parking costs.
- News: the record, including what is being built and where across the borough.
- What’s On: things to do in Kensington, and what is happening in Chelsea and Notting Hill.
Every fact is linked to the official document behind it.