Local news, what's on and the information you need across the Kingston borough.
Kingston Wire

Kingston & district · Local news you can trust

Kingston Wire covers the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames: the town centre, Norbiton, Canbury and Kingston Hill, Surbiton, Berrylands and Seething Wells, New Malden, Old Malden and Motspur Park, Tolworth and Hook Rise, Chessington and Malden Rushett, and Coombe and Kingston Vale. We report the news that comes off the public record, planning applications on the borough’s own register, council decisions, crime figures and business changes, and we keep the everyday information you look up again and again in one place: when your bin is collected, what your council tax band costs and where you can park.

Start with these

  • Kingston house prices: the typical borough home sold for £553,350, from 1,270 Land Registry sales. Ward medians run from £900,000 in Tudor to £410,000 in Surbiton Hill.
  • Train times to London: Kingston to Waterloo in 30 minutes, Surbiton in 17, and what a season ticket costs from each of the borough’s ten stations.
  • Roadworks and travel: Ewell Road and Hook Road are dug up until late October, plus the resurfacing list and every council car park tariff.
  • Things to do in Kingston: a free museum, a church where England’s first king was crowned, and Chessington from £34.13.
  • Planning in Kingston: the borough has 1.48 years of housing land where five are expected, and the Local Plan consultation closes on 4 September.

What you will find here

  • Local Info: the practical pages, sourced and dated.
  • News: what the public record shows, including planning applications from the borough’s weekly list.
  • What’s On: things to do across the borough, from the riverside and the Rose Theatre to Chessington and the parks.

How we work

Every story here is built from a named source: the council’s own news and registers, the Kingston planning register, police.uk crime data, The Gazette, the Food Standards Agency ratings register and other public records. We link to that source so you can check it yourself, we say when we last updated a figure, and where a record is unclear we say that too. If we get something wrong, tell us and we will correct it.