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Residents lob in a volley of complaints over plans for 16-hours of padel per day at new club
A grudge match has kicked off between residents and an upmarket health club over its plans to open a padel club in the heart of a residential area. KX gym is planning to erect four new padel open-air courts and members facilities on a brownfield site - spreading over 2,400 square metres - near its main workout club and spa on Draycott Avenue...
Council leader pleads with residents (AGAIN) to help her fight Gov over £100m funding axe
Kensington and Chelsea Council is calling on residents to join a borough-wide fightback against government funding reforms which it says will cost the town hall more than £100 million. Council...
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Progress for Hogarth Road
Hogarth Road, the characterful side street off the ever-polluted Earl's Court Road, has been given a major re-fit....
The Citizen’s BIG Five Questions to the Big Five Parties*
As voters prepare to go to the polls, The Chelsea Citizen’s JOHN COOKSON cuts through the campaign noise (and all those annoying, highly shreddable...
The grab for power looms, but Who will win and How?
This Thursday — 7th May — voters in Kensington and Chelsea go to the polls in the most finely balanced local elections the Royal Borough has seen in...
EXCLUSIVE: “This is traumatic. I am devastated” – Karl Cronin’s father talks to The Citizen
The father of the man who fell to his death on the King’s Road in mysterious circumstances has told The Citizen: “This is traumatic for me. I am...
Gardeners find “dog toys and food covered in white powder” in Brompton Cemetery
Police have issued an urgent warning after suspected poisoned meat was discovered in two of Kensington and Chelsea’s best known green spaces —...
AI film shows how Rockwell Property’s tower for Battersea Bridge might unfold
The Chelsea Citizen partnered with the Friends of Battersea Riverside - our campaigning compatriots across the water - to create a short film to...
Two major victories for campaigners at the Council’s Planning Applications committee
Applause and cheers rang out across Kensington Town Hall last night as residents welcomed two planning decisions — both the subject of sustained...
Workers demand Council does not scrap its £1,800 FREE travel perk
Furious council workers erupted in protest outside Kensington Town Hall yesterday after bosses slashed a long-standing travel perk — leaving many...
Supergroup campaigners Jagger, Campbell, Wade and Powell draw big crowd for anti slots arcade demo’
Human rights campaigner Bianca Jagger has issued a rallying cry to town hall chiefs — urging them to “fight all the way” to block a giant slot...
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Progress for Hogarth Road
Hogarth Road, the characterful side street off the ever-polluted Earl's Court Road, has been given a major re-fit....