by Rob McGibbon | Mar 20, 2025 | Council, News, Politics
The leaders of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council have waved through its budget for 2025-2026. Following a full council meeting on 5th March, the budget was signed off. Council tax will go up by four per cent – one of the lowest increases in...
by Rob McGibbon | Mar 13, 2025 | News
ようこそ to the new Japanese shop that has taken over the space left empty by Space.NK at the eastern end of King’s Road. The shop unit opposite Bluebird has been closed for many months and has been something of a dispiriting, ghostly sight for residents and...
by Rob McGibbon | Mar 10, 2025 | News
by Rob McGibbon An escaped pet budgerigar has been rescued from almost certain death in Brompton Cemetery. Kind-hearted bird lover Mrs Maria Rawlinson, who lives on Fulham Road near the iconic 1840 cemetery, saved the lost bird last Friday after several concerned...
by Rob McGibbon | Mar 7, 2025 | Council, News, Planning
Detailed concept designs have been unveiled by RBKC for a new £1m riverside park by Lots Road in SW10. The council has created three draft options for what it calls ‘Lots Road Open Space’ to kick off the consultation process with residents and local...
by Rob McGibbon | Mar 6, 2025 | Culture, News
The Chelsea Society has issued its annual report for 2024 and its Winter Bulletin. The Citizen is happy to publish here the Editor’s Foreword by Deputy Chairman Michael Stephen and below you will find the opening of the Chairman’s Report by Dr James...
by Rob McGibbon | Mar 6, 2025 | News, Planning
The Lost Hours pub, which closed more than a year ago and has been at the mercy of squatters for many months, is to finally re-open – as a pub. Phew. Only this week, the new pub’s name was revealed: it will be called The Boundary. And The Citizen can...
