We asked for views on the proposal to order ban on all motor vehicles from entering the length of Elystan Street that lies between the south-eastern kerb-line of Whitehead’s Grove and the north-western kerb-line of Elystan Place.
We had no objections or comments about this proposal.
We have made this scheme permanent.
We asked for views on the proposals made in the October 2021 Miscellaneous Parking Changes.
We had a total of 30 objections and 25 comments about these proposals.
We amended the proposals for Harcourt Terrace (to reduce the size of the bay) and Uxbridge Street (to make only one of the two sets of changes proposed for Uxbridge St permanent) and approved all the other proposals. We also made permanent previous experimental orders in Elystan Street and Lansdowne Crescent and made permanent a proposal previously advertised in June 2021 in Egerton Gardens and made some changes to the articles of the traffic orders.
Our second round of consultation on New Homes at Cheyne presented updated proposals which sought to respond to resident feedback provided during the first round of consultation, notably reducing the height and number of floors in the proposed building.
This round also gave residents the chance to express their preferences about some of the design proposals being considered for the site, such as architectural features that could be used on the building and in its surrounding landscape.
What you told us:
We welcome and appreciate the local support for the proposed Nursery and Children’s Centre.
We have listened to the concerns raised about providing new homes on the site and considered this alongside feedback from planning officers and other stakeholders.
The intention is to include nine new homes as part of the development which has been reduced from up to 22 homes presented at Round 1. Planning policies encourage the re-use of council sites to provide much needed new homes in the borough. The site is in an accessible location and close to local shops and services, so we think it’s a good site for building new homes.
The height of the development was reduced in consultation Rounds 1 and 2 from up to seven storeys in the original proposal to four storeys in the latest one: a ground floor level and three storeys above ground. This means that nine new homes are now proposed, rather than up to 22 as was previously proposed.
The four-storey proposal was discussed with the Council’s planning department and the design officer considered it to be an appropriate height in the context of the surrounding area.
The borough is typically characterised by low to medium rise developments (the definition of which includes developments up to 6 storeys in height) and often in the form of mansion blocks. The proposed development of nine new homes on a site measuring 0.14 hectares, represents a density of 64 homes per hectare. This is much lower than the Chelsea Waterfront development and we think the scale of development is appropriate for this site.
A detailed technical assessment has been carried out to inform the design of the proposal and a report will be submitted with the planning application.
The technical assessment concludes that nearly all the windows of neighbouring properties tested will comply with the relevant industry guidelines, provided by the Building Research Establishment (BRE). These guidelines are used to assess new developments like this and designed to ensure developments do not have unacceptable impacts.
The assessment concludes that the neighbouring park and the gardens on Thorndike Close will comply with BRE industry guidelines.
The new homes will be car free with no parking spaces, in line with the Council’s policy requirements. The local area is highly accessible by bus, and cycle spaces will be provided for the new residents and those who work in and visit the Nursery and Children’s Centre.
Over two thirds of the additional trips will be made on foot or by public transport with the remainder by car or cycle.
Design choices
Feedback in response to residents and stakeholders' views, and actions taken, can be read in the 'You Said' section above.
We asked for your views on two of the playgrounds within Emslie Horniman Pleasance, with the aim of making refurbishments to them using feedback from the community. The consultation was split into 2 phases – initial ideas and feedback, followed by a survey.
Phase 1 (Initial Ideas and Feedback)
Phase 2 (Survey) - 106 responses
Junior Playground (Multi Themed):
Pathfinder Playground:
The results will be used to help with the scope of the works, and the council will be working with the community to finalise the designs of the play areas.
For your views on extending the network of e-Scooter hire scheme parking bays in the borough by introducing an additional 15 bays across the borough
We received a range of comments on 12 of the 15 locations, no location received more than four comments.
In addition to the on-line consultation we undertook a statutory Traffic Management Order consultation on eight of the bays. After considering the comments received from both sources we decided to proceed with installation of all of the bays.
We asked for views on exempting pedal cycles from the existing one-way traffic systems in Nevern Road (between Nevern Square (north-west arm) and Longridge Road), the north-east arm of Nevern Square (between Nevern Square (north-west arm) and Nevern Square (south-east arm)), the north-west arm of Nevern Square (between Nevern Road and Nevern Square (north-east arm)), on the north-east arm of Nevern Square (between Nevern Square (south-east arm) and Trebovir Road), Park Walk (between Elm Park Road and Fulham Road), Pavilion Road (between Cadogan Gardens (northern arm) and Cadogan Gate) and Trebovir Road (between Warwick Road and Nevern Square (north-east arm)).
We had one objector and one supporter for the proposal for Nevern Road/Nevern Square/Trebovir Road and no comments for the other proposals.
We have made this order and will implement the schemes.
We asked for your views on the existing playground and ideas for the future with the aim of making improvements using the feedback and ideas from the local community. The consultation was split into two phases; Pre-engagement sessions in the park and a formal survey.
Phase 1 (Pre-engagement sessions in the park)
Phase 2 (Survey) – 36 responses
The results will be used to help design and construct a new playground.
For more information on the consultation including next steps and a copy of the full report please contact us by email at parksprojects@rbkc.gov.uk or by phone on 07929 850 525.
The Council held a seven week consultation from 18 August to 7 October 2021 to give as many North Kensington residents the opportunity to have their say and join the conversation about the future of The Curve services and the remaining £1.3M budget from 2022-24.
The community were invited to have their say and vote for their preferred option via an online survey promoted in Council and third-party communication channels throughout the consultation period. A paper copy of the survey was also distributed to 29,000 addresses in seven North Kensington wards.
The consultation asked residents: ‘What would your preference be for the future of the Curve?'
a) Curve services relocated in another community centre building?
b) A Curve legacy fund, designed to fund projects that serve the north Kensington community.
c) A combination of ‘a’ and ‘b’.
d) Another idea, developed and overseen by the Curve Legacy Steering Group. A free text box was provided for this option, so respondents could write their ideas down and provide contact details.
The fourth option (Option D) gave people the opportunity to put forward their own ideas and suggestions. During the consultation, the Curve Board of Governors put forward their idea of a Community Trust as an idea under this option which was subsequently promoted via an unbranded flyer and distributed to residents in North Kensington.
Using independent specialists
To ensure an unbiased and thorough approach from the outset, the Council appointed independent community engagement specialists.
Incentivising participation
The community were also invited to participate in real world and virtual workshops which were incentivised with a £20 Love2Shop gift voucher to recognise participants' time.
Widening reach to hear from as many North Kensington residents as possible
In addition to the survey and the workshops, this consultation involved community events and engagement at The Curve plus several high footfall locations which provided a broad range of North Kensington residents with multiple opportunities to join the conversation, have their voices heard and have their say about how they would like the future Curve budget to be spent. To reach out to as many North Kensington residents as possible, this consultation was promoted using:
A total of 167 responses were received. The results indicated that the most popular preference was for ‘a Curve Legacy Fund, designed to fund projects that serve the North Kensington community’, with 30 per cent of respondents preferring this.
The second most popular choice, ‘another idea, developed and overseen by the Curve Legacy Steering Group’, was chosen by 22 per cent of respondents. Within that, the majority (but not all) respondents endorsed the Board of Governor’s proposal for a Community Trust.
A consistent theme, throughout the consultation period, was concern relating to the sustainability of the Curve legacy beyond the ending of the recovery strategy. The Community Trust option was considered a way that this could happen, whilst also ensuring greater community ownership over decision-making.
Based on the results of this consultation and the majority view, on 10 November 2021 the Council formally agreed to work with North Kensington communities to form a resident-led Curve Legacy Steering Group, who we will partner with to:
In addition
After the consultation ended Kensington and Chelsea Council and The Curve Board of Governors held a public meeting to feedback to local North Kensington residents on 9 November 2021 as requested by the Curve Board of Governors. At this meeting the community was clear that in addition to the next steps for The Curve they want their own community space to be provided by Kensington and Chelsea Council in North Kensington. This was presented to the Leadership Team on 10 November 2021, the following was agreed: for Kensington and Chelsea Council to relook at the Community Asset Review that identifies Council buildings and commercial properties with a view to report back on the potential of local North Kensington spaces that could be made accessible for local community usage; this may include shared spaces.
This was their largest consultation to date with young people. Conversations were had with around 200 young people, 120 of those young people engaged with the survey and submitted responses. The aim for the “Your Voice” survey is to support and inform the work of the Youth Council, results will help shape their priorities to address our younger residents, their futures, current needs, and the impact of the global Covid-19 pandemic.
The consultation focused on young people's priorities.
Young people's priorities for their local area and community
Youth services
Education, careers advice, guidance, and support
Mental Health and wellbeing
Physical Activity
Safety
The Youth Council are reviewing the findings from the survey and will use them to develop a six month plan for the Youth Council to focus on.
For your views on high streets in the borough, to understand what you like about your local or favourite high street and what you would like to see improved.
Feedback that has been given can be viewed on the dedicated site for this project.
The project team is taking into account all feedback gathered to create a set of high-level principles for our high streets. These principles will inform a draft toolkit with practical ideas for each area.
The Gambling Act 2005 requires all licensing authorities to prepare and publish a Gambling Act Statement of Policy and Principles every three years. A review of the current policy, which is due to expire in January 2022, took place. This will be our sixth Statement of Gambling Policy.
All feedback was considered as part of the decision-making process.
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has, in accordance with section 349 of the Gambling Act 2005, carried out its 3 year review of its Statement of Gambling Policy.
A total of five responses were received from Gosschalks Solicitors representing the Betting and Gaming Council (BGC), Legal Services, the Metropolitan Police, Fire Authority and the Council’s Noise and Nuisance Team. A summary of all five responses and relevant amendments to the revised Statement of Gambling Policy is attached as Appendix B to the Policy.
The Statement was adopted by Full Council at its meeting on 1 December 2021 and in line with the statutory requirement it was published for 28 days before coming into effect on the 6 January 2022.
If you have any enquiries regarding this Statement of Gambling Policy please contact the Licensing Team at: licensing@rbkc.gov.uk or by telephone on: 020 7341 5152
Help and support
If you or someone you know is struggling with gambling-related problems, contact the National Gambling Helpline.
0808 8020 133.
Free of charge, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
We asked for your views on the existing features within Avondale Park with the aim of making improvements throughout the park using the feedback and ideas from the local community. The consultation was split into three phases; Initial Ideas and Feedback, Focus Group Sessions and a formal survey. Idea and comments were condensed into categories which were the basis for the questions asked in the community wide survey – Accessibility, Health and Wellbeing, Education and Sustainability.
Phase 1 (Initial Ideas and Feedback) – 160+ comments
Phase 2 (Focus Groups) – 6 local stakeholder groups
Phase 3 (Survey) – 154 responses
Outdoor Gym
Playgrounds
Junior Playground:
Senior Play Area:
Open and Green Spaces:
Accessibility:
Green Spaces:
Other:
The results will be used to help with the scope of the works and the initial master planning, and the Council will be working with the Avondale Park Steering Group and other sub groups to implement the works where possible.
We asked for your views on the existing features in Kensington Memorial Park with the aim of making improvements throughout the park using the feedback and ideas from the local community. The consultation was split into three phases; Initial Ideas and Feedback, Focus Group Sessions and a formal survey. Idea and comments have been split into categories according to the type of activity they represent – future of park buildings, sport and fitness facilities, other proposals and playground improvements.
Future of park buildings:
Sport and fitness facilities:
Other proposals:
Children’s playground improvements
Toddler Playground:
Junior Playground:
Shade and shelter from the elements in the children’s playground:
The results will be used to help with the scope and priority of the works and Council will be working to establish a Kensington Memorial Park Steering Group and other sub groups to prioritise and implement supported works where possible.
The Council’s Dedicated Service team has launched a wide-ranging consultation and review with bereaved and survivors to help shape the future of the Dedicated Service. The first phase of the consultation ran for nine weeks from 5 July to 5 September 2021. It was extended for three weeks to allow plenty of time for people to share their feedback with us. As part of the Phase One consultation, we communicated directly with bereaved and survivors by letter, email, WhatsApp and via Dedicated Service Workers and invited them to share their views with us through a comprehensive survey and in other ways (including workshops and drop-in sessions). Materials were available in all of the nine languages most commonly spoken by those who use the service.
We heard extensive feedback from over 230 bereaved and survivors in this first phase, approximately 40 per cent of adults eligible for the service.
We have now launched Phase Two of the review, which will run through October and early November 2021. As part of this, we have shared the findings from Phase One directly with all bereaved and survivors via letters, email, WhatsApp and on the Dedicated Service website. We have also set out some proposed next steps for further discussion and will be seeking feedback on the draft plans in a range of different ways, including an online feedback form and face-to-face drop-in events and workshops. We will use what we hear from bereaved and survivors in Phase Two to develop a final set of plans which we will ask the Leadership Team to consider at its meeting in December 2021.
The Council worked with The Powis Square Steering Group which comprised of local residents, ward Councillors and Council officers has been set-up to co-design improvements to the square. As part of this, children and young people shared their ideas and opinions about redesigning Powis Square Play Space. We asked:
• What are your favourite things about the Powis Square Play Space?
• What would you want included in the new play space?
Your top 5 favourite things about Powis Square were basketball, swings, climbing frame, slide and monkey bars.
The most popular responses when asked about what was missing from Powis Square play space were as follows:
Football, basketball, tennis and outdoor gym were the most popular responses for fitness activities in Powis Square.
The results will be used to help with the scope of the works, and the council will be working with the community and Powis Square Steering Group to finalise the designs of the play area, ball court and amenity space within Powis Square.
We asked for your views on how we can best deliver on the five environmental and sustainability priorities and goals set out in the Council’s Green Plan:
The scale and pace required to deliver the Green Plan requires significant and bold action, and for everyone to be involved to build a greener borough and a sustainable future. We, therefore, asked you for your views and ideas on how we can work together on these issues in the borough. In particular, we sought your views to help the development, design, and delivery of new action plans for addressing these priorities, especially the climate emergency, air quality and biodiversity.
A key message from the survey results was that there was a lack of awareness about the Council’s actions to tackle and address climate change and its effects. This, therefore, made it difficult for some of you to comment on how well you thought the Council was doing in this area. You felt that the most important things the Council could do to support you to reduce your carbon footprint were to provide financial incentives/subsidies/grants to reduce your carbon footprint, including making your home more efficient and to identify residents who are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and ensure their homes are resilient. You felt that the best way for the Council to reduce its carbon footprint was to reduce waste and recycle more and install energy efficient and controlled street lighting. The majority of you recycle as much as possible but clear information on what can and can’t be recycled was one way you identified to encourage even more recycling.
Key actions you would like to see to improve air quality focussed on improving and installing more electric vehicle charging points whilst your biodiversity priorities included planting more wildflower areas for pollinators and provide opportunities for the community to get involved in supporting biodiversity.
In general, you supported a number of the Council’s green policies including a possible future ban on domestic wood burning, reduced cost for electric parking permits, the expansion of food waste collections, conversion of parking bays for al fresco dining and the planting of street trees in a small number of parking bays.
Overall, your top greening priorities were investment in existing parks and developing new parks and the Green Fund.
Your feedback is being used to help develop, design, and deliver new action plans, especially for climate change, air quality and biodiversity. These will be consulted on again from late October to December and will include focus groups with some of you. Here are some examples of what will be included in these draft action plans in direct response to where you have expressed support for particular initiatives or where you have indicated a need for improvement:
We really appreciate the insight the Citizen’s Panel provided and would like to continue this discussion with residents, businesses and the wider community to develop and deliver actions to deliver the Green Plan and a more sustainable and greener borough.
The Anti Social Behaviour (ASB) Nuisance Vehicles Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) has been in place for the last six years. We wanted to know how residents felt about the PSPO in terms of its success and also its failures. Over the six years, there has been a certain amount of ASB displacement beyond the original PSPO zone and so we sought feedback from residents across the entire borough, to understand if this ASB affected neighbourhoods outside of the current zone of Knightsbridge. Over the last year we also trialled acoustic CCTV cameras, which help officers obtain evidence of order breaches. Views were also sought in relation to the cameras and whether further roll out would be popular.
More than 93 per cent of respondents strongly supported a PSPO to address ASB from vehicles and over 84 per cent back extending and expanding the PSPO to cover the entire borough and further use of the acoustic cameras was also supported. In total there were 473 responses to the survey in the consultation and it demonstrated that the ASB caused by a minority of drivers affects residents in a variety of areas across the borough.
The new PSPO will launch in late November 2021 and will cover the entire borough. We have procured more acoustic cameras and will shortly have three in operation, with the potential to increase this to five. The cameras are demountable and can be moved to different locations when needed. These new and more robust arrangements, will go towards addressing the concerns of our residents.
For residents and stakeholders views on revised proposals for the site.
Building heights
Number of homes
Respondents were asked to comment on the revised proposals for 110 homes.
New community space
From a list of choices, respondents ranked a health and wellness centre as their first choice for a new community space at the base of Trellick Tower, followed be a creative workspace.
Landscape provision
Respondents were asked to comment on the proposed landscape provision.
Ball court facilities
The most selected features that respondents would like to see in the ball court were: accessible to all users (43 per cent), improved lighting (41 per cent) and flexible for use by different sports (38 per cent).
Graffiti provision
Trellick Garden
From a list of choices, respondents ranked new landscaping and trees and improved safety and security as their top choices for improvements for Trellick Garden.
Servicing
We have also recently held landscape design workshops so that local residents could make suggestions about how they would like the outdoor space at Edenham designed.
All of the proposals will now be submitted to planning for approval later this year where residents will be able to formally comment.
We asked for views on how the ban on motor vehicles from entering the north-easternmost arm of Lennox Gardens (outside Knightsbridge School), between the north-eastern kerb-line of Lennox Gardens (north-westernmost arm) and the south kerb-line of Pont Street, between 7.45am and 9.15am and between 3.15pm and 4.45pm on Mondays to Fridays inclusive, was working in practice.
We had no objections and 27 supporting scheme in Lennox Gardens for https://consult.rbkc.gov.uk/communities/school-streets-experimental-traffic-order-seven-sc/ and no objections or other comments received for https://consult.rbkc.gov.uk/communities/lennox-gardens-school-street/
We have made this scheme permanent.
We asked for views on how the ban on motor vehicles from entering the southern west to east arm of Cadogan Gardens (outside Holy Trinity C of E Primary School), between the eastern kerb-line of Cadogan Gardens (eastern north to south arm) and the western kerb-line of Pavilion Road, between 8.45am and 9.15am and between 3.00pm and 3.40pm on Mondays to Fridays inclusive, was working in practice.
We had no objections and 23 support for the scheme in Cadogan Gardens for https://consult.rbkc.gov.uk/communities/school-streets-experimental-traffic-order-seven-sc/ and no objections or other comments received for https://consult.rbkc.gov.uk/communities/cadogan-gardens-school-street/
We have made this scheme permanent.