Featured Consultations
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Council Tax Reduction Scheme 2026-27
The Council is reviewing its Council Tax Reduction Scheme (the scheme), which helps residents on low incomes by reducing the amount of Council Tax they need to pay. Some households currently receive up to 100 per cent support, meaning they do not pay any Council Tax. We are proud to have one of the most generous schemes in London, helping around 8,000 working-age households each year. However, this may have to change in the future as the Council is facing the biggest financial...
Closes 7 December 2025
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Draft Budget Proposals 2026-27
Help us tackle our biggest budget challenge yet by sharing your views on the Council’s budget for the financial year 2026/27. The Council delivers around 200 services – from keeping our streets clean and maintaining open spaces to providing vital services such as adult and children’s social care and homeless prevention. Each year, we are legally required to set a balanced budget, ensuring that the money we spend does not exceed the income we receive from...
Closes 9 January 2026
Open Consultations
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Council Tax Reduction Scheme 2026-27
The Council is reviewing its Council Tax Reduction Scheme (the scheme), which helps residents on low incomes by reducing the amount of Council Tax they need to pay. Some households currently receive up to 100 per cent support, meaning they do not pay any Council Tax. We are proud to have one of the most generous schemes in London, helping around 8,000 working-age households each year....
Closes 7 December 2025
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Future support for the voluntary and community sector
The Council is facing the biggest financial challenge it has ever faced over the next few years. Currently, between now and 2030 we are expecting to lose £82m of funding from Government which represents 40 per cent of our controllable spend. This is due to the Government’s Fairer Funding Review, where they are looking to move funding out of London to the areas of greatest deprivation...
Closes 7 December 2025
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Darnley Terrace Cycle Hangar
Enabling more cycling is one of the Council’s borough transport objectives. Making travel by bicycle convenient for residents is one way to improve our air quality, reduce traffic congestion, and work towards our goal for the borough to be carbon neutral by 2040. One of the ways we can make cycling easier is to provide cycle storage. Residents living in flats experience particular difficulty...
Closes 7 December 2025
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Strengthening Portobello Road Phase 1 Consultation
Have your say on proposals to make Portobello safer, greener, more flood resilient and better for trading. Portobello Road is our famous market street that is rich in heritage, character, and community. We will make sure Portobello remains a unique place where people are proud to live, trade and work. We have developed ideas with local people for almost three years. The key...
Closes 10 December 2025
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Housing Fraud Policy
The Council is introducing a new Housing Fraud Policy that establishes clear definitions of housing fraud and unacceptable conduct and confirms Kensington and Chelsea council's approach to tackling housing fraud. The policy sets out the following: Definitions of tenancy and housing fraud Reporting and investigation procedures Criminal and civil enforcement...
Closes 14 December 2025
Closed Consultations
Local Listed Building Consent Order for Grade II listed buildings in the Queen’s Gate, Pembridge, and Holland Park Conservation Areas
The Council is consulting on a Local Listed Building Consent Order (LLBCO) for Grade II listed buildings in the Queen’s Gate, Pembridge, and Holland Park Conservation Areas. This measure would allow...
Cycle Hangars October 2025
Enabling more cycling is one of the Council’s borough transport objectives. Making travel by bicycle convenient for residents is one way to improve our air quality, reduce traffic congestion, and...
King’s Road / Beaufort Street Proposed Signalised Crossings
Enabling more journeys on foot is one of the Council’s key objectives and helping to make it easier and safer for pedestrians to cross the road is an important part of meeting that objective. ...
Time Banded Commercial Waste Collections- Holland Park Avenue and Draycott Avenue
Due to the built nature of the borough, most businesses present their waste and recycling on the public highway in bags to await collection. The Council’s Commercial Waste Service provides...
Housing Management- Tenancy Policy Review
Kensington and Chelsea is making some changes to its tenancy policy and we’d like your input. The Tenancy policy outlines the Council’s approach to issuing, ending and transitioning between...