Welcome to Kingston: Let's Talk
Here you will find out Kingston Council's latest consultations and engagement opportunities. Have your say on local issues that matter to you and help shape decision-making in Kingston upon Thames.
We will also keep this website updated with the results and outcomes of your feedback.
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Featured engagement opportunities and consultations
Revitalising Kingston’s Ancient Market Place
The Ancient Market Place is the historic heart of Kingston town centre, and is highly valued by local communities. It hosts one of London’s oldest street markets, with the first recorded in 1242. We heard how important the Market Place is during the community engagement to create a Vision for Kingston Town Centre , which was adopted in 2023. In response to this feedback and recent engagement with stakeholders and market traders, the council is now seeking to revitalise the...
Community Safety Survey
The Safer Kingston Partnership brings the police, council, fire brigade, health and probation service together to coordinate community safety activity at a strategic level to: Deal with crime and disorder Tackle substance misuse Prevent and reduce serious violence Reduce reoffending in their area. Take a look below at what we have already achieved with your support:
Kingston Let’s Talk Residents' Panel
Join our Kingston Let’s Talk Residents’ Panel and share your views and experiences to help improve our services and continue to make Kingston a great place to live, work or study. A residents' panel is a group of people who are actively willing to engage with us either face-to-face, over the phone or online to help improve council services and our borough. We run the Kingston Residents’ Panel to consult with, carry out research and inform people on matters of local interest...
Open engagement opportunities and consultations
Community Safety Survey
The Safer Kingston Partnership brings the police, council, fire brigade, health and probation service together to coordinate community safety activity at a strategic level to: Deal with crime and disorder Tackle substance misuse Prevent and reduce serious violence Reduce reoffending in their area. Take a look below at what we have already achieved with your support:
Making Kingston healthier and more active
We want to create a thriving and active community to enable everyone to lead healthier lives. We want to transform our borough into a place where residents of all ages and abilities have the opportunity to embrace a healthy and active lifestyle. To make this happen we have recently created the Active Kingston Framework . This brings together three plans: the Indoor Leisure Facilities Strategy the Outdoor Leisure Facilities Strategy a Physical Activity assessment ...
Green spaces
Kingston’s public greenspaces, including our parks, woodlands and riversides, are important for our physical and mental well-being. But not everyone who lives, works or studies in the borough has good access to a green space or is able to enjoy and benefit from them. Last year a new vision for our public greenspaces was published. It highlights 11 areas where we want to make improvements over the next 10 years. As a council we cannot achieve this on our own and will need to work in...
Revitalising Kingston’s Ancient Market Place
The Ancient Market Place is the historic heart of Kingston town centre, and is highly valued by local communities. It hosts one of London’s oldest street markets, with the first recorded in 1242. We heard how important the Market Place is during the community engagement to create a Vision for Kingston Town Centre , which was adopted in 2023. In response to this feedback and recent engagement with stakeholders and market traders, the council is now seeking to revitalise the...
North Kingston Healthy Streets
Our vision is to create a cleaner, greener Kingston and our streets play a major role in this plan. We want everyone to feel our streets are spaces where they can breathe clean air, walk safely and feel connected to the local community. For several years, residents living on King’s Road, particularly the part between Park Road and Queens Road, have expressed concern about the traffic conditions in the area. We have previously engaged with communities to find a solution and considered...
Your ideas for Surbiton
We want to hear your ideas! How do you think we can improve Surbiton’s parks, streets and open spaces? Is there a local project which you think would improve the lives of residents and attract businesses to the area? We are updating the Surbiton Neighbourhood Community plan, which is almost three years old, and want to find out how you think we can continue to make Surbiton an even better place to live, work and study. The community plan is used by the Surbiton...
Our Streets
Our Streets play a major role in our vision for a Greener Kingston. We want everyone to feel our streets are spaces where they can breathe clean air, walk safely and feel connected to the local community.
We really want your views and suggestions for our programmes to improve Kingston’s neighbourhoods for everyone.
Closed activities
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Elm Road zebra crossing
Our vision is to create a cleaner, green er Kingston and our streets play a major role in this plan. We want everyone to feel our streets are spaces where they can breathe clean air, walk safely and feel connected to the local community Local residents, parents and staff from St Luke’s C.E....
Closed 10 March 2024
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Toby Way Permit Parking Area
We want everyone to feel our streets are spaces where they can breathe clean air, walk safely and feel connected to the local community. Parking management in our neighbourhoods ensures streets are safer for all users, help residents and visitors have fair access to parking and can reduce...
Closed 10 March 2024
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Hunters Road Improvements
Our vision is to create a cleaner, greener Kingston and our streets play a major role in this plan. We want everyone to feel our streets are spaces where they can breathe clean air, walk safely and feel connected to the local community. We have carefully developed some proposals to address...
Closed 10 March 2024
We asked, you said, we did
Below are outcomes for some of the issues we've recently asked about.
We asked
What do you think of the plans for a shared use pedestrian and cycle path in Canbury Gardens?
You said
Over 130 people responded to the survey. Those in favour of the trial commented:
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Existing cycle route is in a poor condition
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Conflict already exists between pedestrians and cyclists accessing the riverside
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Lack of clarity and signage
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Support for rewilding and improving the path beside the river and pedestrianising this
Some respondents expressed concern about the trial. The comments raised included:
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Concern about potential increase in conflict between pedestrians and cyclists and particular concern about the impact of the trail shared use path on blind and partially sighted people, wheelchair users, children, dogs, elderly and less mobile people.
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Prefer to have segregated paths for pedestrians and cyclists.
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Prefer cycling to be banned from Canbury Gardens altogether and for cyclists to use Lower Ham Road.
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Concern about the speed of cyclists using the trial shared path.
We did
As part of the engagement and in response to the feedback received we've taken a number of steps to address many of the issues raised:
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Held a site meeting with representatives of local groups for people with visual impairments to discuss the proposal and what could be done to address their concerns. We will hold regular meetings together during the trial in order to capture any additional works that may be needed.
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Added more tactile paving to the plan at entrance points and meeting points with other internal pathways.
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Updated the plan to include additional signage to support the trial scheme, that will encourage cyclists to slow down as they enter the shared use area.
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Updated the plan to include encouraging those who wish to cycle via a faster route to be encouraged to use Lower Ham Road as an alternative.
This updated plan was taken to Kingston and North Kingston Neighbourhood Committee on 28 November 2023 and approved for a 1 year trial. Weather permitting work will being on site to install the trial shared pathway from 22 January 2024. We will open a new survey to collect your feedback from using the shared pathway once it is in place.
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