by Rob McGibbon | Jul 17, 2025 | Culture, News, Property
It has been three years in the making, but a stunning new public artwork has finally been unveiled across the façade The Gaumont building on the King’s Road. Entitled Cascade, the ceramic abstract diptych fills two 609 x 288 cm panels on either side of the 1930s...
by Rob McGibbon | Jul 10, 2025 | News, Planning
The revised new designs for what is known as Phase 5 of the vast Chelsea Barracks development are set to be revealed. Qatari Diar, the global property company behind the development, announced dramatic changes to its Masterplan last April and urgently began consulting...
by Rob McGibbon | Jul 9, 2025 | Dining, News
If you are going to clear the tables of a much-admired Michelin-starred restaurant and replace it with a pop-up bar for the summer months, you had better know what you are doing. Thankfully, the skilled leaders at The Peninsula hotel in Belgravia have an effortless...
by Rob McGibbon | Jul 7, 2025 | Council, News, Planning
Earl’s Court residents are fighting against what they claim is a council-led “policy shift” that will pave the way for their area to become a hell zone of crime, anti-social behaviour and 24-hour commercial activity. Activists are appealing for the...
by Rob McGibbon | Jul 4, 2025 | Council, News, Planning, Property
Residents are digging in to stop a local business tycoon from building a “giga”* basement under the back garden of his Chelsea home. Mr Peter Dubens, the flamboyant “serial” entrepreneur behind the multi-billion pound Oakley Capital private...
by Rob McGibbon | Jun 16, 2025 | Council, News, Planning, Property
Tite Street’s most famous former resident, Oscar Wilde, once referred to his beloved road as “The street of wonderful possibilities”. Well, there’s one distinct possibility on the horizon: the street could be transformed by a high-impact...
