Voice of the Citizen
The central motivation for The Chelsea Citizen is to get everyone talking and bring the community and all its associated groups together. This goes to the very heart of our mission to be a force for good in Chelsea and to its border neighbourhoods. Connection and conversation.
This is the page where contributors can share their views. Everyone is welcome to pitch an idea – residents, councillors, business leaders, local workers. No issue will be deemed too small or irrelevant. If it matters to you, it may well matter to someone else. Change can only happen when someone airs a problem.
A few basic rules: I am overrun with stories and requests for inclusion in The Chelsea Citizen, so my time is stretched. If you have an idea for an opinion piece, please email a brief memo. Think elevator pitch. Something that explains the issue in a few lines and how you plan to write about it. Anyone who sends an essay or a completed piece thinking it will just appear on The Citizen news site is unlikely to get a reply.
Also – personal attacks, or anything hysterically critical or gloomy will not be acceptable. The same goes for self-promotional pieces. Make your criticism factual and fair. Keep the copy clean.
Above all, I would like contributors to aim to include a positive solution in their article. Suggest an answer to the issue that is bothering you. It may ultimately help solve it.
Anyone hoping to be write for The Citizen needs to be signed up to our newsletter. And, of course, the subject has to be connected to the areas that we cover – which means that it is definitely not restricted to SW10 & 3.
Email me at editor@thechelseacitizen.com and put Voice of the Citizen in the subject line.
Let the conversations begin…
Best wishes
Rob McGibbon
‘It’s time the council FINALLY took action against our Neighbour From Hell’
Nik Hoexter - a retired minerals economist - has lived in Chelsea for 50 years. Today, he calls out RBKC Council for allowing his neighbour, Nicholas Halbritter, to let his house become derelict and blight a section of Ifield Road in SW10. The issue will be discussed at a meeting of the Planning Committee at the Town Hall in Kensington on Thursday evening (16th April). Mr Hoexter and MP Ben Coleman, who is supporting residents, hope to address the committee to demand decisive action. In this article, Mr Hoexter lays bare the miserable story of "The Neighbour From Hell" who is inexplicably...