Kensington and Chelsea: local evidence before choosing a home
Three public reference positions, ten independent checks and the limitations you need before treating a map result as a housing shortlist.
By the notbad project · editorial review . Source dates are separate.
Explore Kensington and Chelsea on the mapWhat these local examples show
Holland Park station, the park's retained reference position and The Kensington Arcade show how quickly the relevant evidence can change between nearby types of place. The park reference has a much lower daytime road average than the station position and a different source crime band. The arcade points towards High Street Kensington. A park label does not tell you the exposure or entrance at a particular home.
This page covers the official Kensington and Chelsea boundary (E09000020), not a single neighbourhood with the same name. Its three examples are illustrative catalog positions, not a representative sample of homes or a borough-wide verdict.
Mapped destinations in this boundary
The retained catalogs place 12 supported station records, 2 named green-space references of at least 2 hectares, 9 supported supermarket records, 3 shopping-centre records and 68 official school positions inside this boundary. These are source-position counts, not a complete inventory or proof of present access; station records can represent separate services at one interchange.
Supported lines represented here: Central, Circle, District, Piccadilly, Hammersmith & City. Coverage includes Underground, Overground, DLR and Elizabeth lines, not every National Rail service. Walking destinations can lie outside the borough.
Three public reference reports
These use the independent Check profile: all supported destination choices, walks up to 30 minutes, green spaces at least 2 hectares, both noise periods and no combined score. School results use all phases and both inspection schemes; the new report-card area is Curriculum and teaching. Origins are source positions, sometimes inside a site, not verified entrances. Unknown means reliable evidence is unavailable, not a pass.
1. Holland Park Underground Station
Station reference · mapped entrance. Coordinates: 51.507143, -0.205679.
Retained source ID: 940GZZLUHPK. A source position is not a surveyed front door or verified entrance.
| Check | Saved evidence at this point |
|---|---|
| Aircraft noise | Daytime: Unknown — no source reading Nighttime: Unknown — no source reading |
| Road noise | Daytime: 77.22 dB Nighttime: 67.73 dB |
| Railway noise | Daytime: Unknown — no source reading Nighttime: Unknown — no source reading |
| Tube-track proximity | Outside the Tube setback 100 m setback · approximate boundary |
| Station walk | ≈ 4 min walk Holland Park Underground Station mapped entrance |
| Green-space walk | ≈ 4 min walk Holland Park 20.7 ha · park |
| Recorded crime | Band 5 / 5 · Highest Kensington and Chelsea 007B · E01002871 179.4 published crimes / 1,000 residents / year 515 crimes · 2024-09 – 2026-08 |
| School walk | ≈ 7 min walk SIAL Not applicable · Other independent school · No linked inspection in the state-funded school snapshot · school position |
| Supermarket walk | ≈ 15 min walk Lidl Lidl · Mapped supermarket · store position |
| Shopping walk | ≈ 15 min walk West 12 Shopping centre · mapped centre entrance |
2. Holland Park
Green-space reference · Mapped green-space reference position; not an entrance. Coordinates: 51.502922, -0.204096.
Retained source ID: 16274524. A source position is not a surveyed front door or verified entrance.
| Check | Saved evidence at this point |
|---|---|
| Aircraft noise | Daytime: Unknown — no source reading Nighttime: Unknown — no source reading |
| Road noise | Daytime: 45.17 dB Nighttime: 39.05 dB |
| Railway noise | Daytime: Unknown — no source reading Nighttime: Unknown — no source reading |
| Tube-track proximity | Outside the Tube setback 100 m setback · approximate boundary |
| Station walk | ≈ 10 min walk Holland Park Underground Station mapped entrance |
| Green-space walk | ≈ 1 min walk Holland Park 20.7 ha · park |
| Recorded crime | Band 2 / 5 · Lower Kensington and Chelsea 009A · E01002864 45.6 published crimes / 1,000 residents / year 134 crimes · 2024-09 – 2026-08 |
| School walk | ≈ 6 min walk Holland Park School Secondary · Academy converter · Strong standard · Curriculum and teaching · 2026-01-20 · mapped school gate |
| Supermarket walk | ≈ 10 min walk Waitrose Waitrose · Mapped supermarket · store position |
| Shopping walk | ≈ 12 min walk Kensington High Street Shopping street · 7 different mapped chains · shop position · Decathlon, H&M, Mango, M&S, TK Maxx, Uniqlo, Zara |
3. The Kensington Arcade
Shopping-site reference · mapped centre entrance. Coordinates: 51.500816, -0.192623.
Retained source ID: w151790043. A source position is not a surveyed front door or verified entrance.
| Check | Saved evidence at this point |
|---|---|
| Aircraft noise | Daytime: Unknown — no source reading Nighttime: Unknown — no source reading |
| Road noise | Daytime: 72.63 dB Nighttime: 63.61 dB |
| Railway noise | Daytime: Unknown — no source reading Nighttime: Unknown — no source reading |
| Tube-track proximity | Within the Tube setback 100 m setback · approximate boundary |
| Station walk | ≈ 1 min walk High Street Kensington Underground Station mapped entrance |
| Green-space walk | ≈ 6 min walk Kensington Gardens 110.0 ha · park |
| Recorded crime | Band 5 / 5 · Highest Kensington and Chelsea 010B · E01002889 207.8 published crimes / 1,000 residents / year 690 crimes · 2024-09 – 2026-08 |
| School walk | ≈ 2 min walk St Mary Abbots CofE Primary School Primary · Voluntary aided school · No linked inspection in the state-funded school snapshot · school position |
| Supermarket walk | ≈ 3 min walk Whole Foods Market Whole Foods Market · Mapped supermarket · store position |
| Shopping walk | ≈ 1 min walk The Kensington Arcade Shopping centre · mapped centre entrance |
Turn this comparison into viewing questions
Choose the journeys and surroundings you actually need. Check the location of the home, the route and entrance you would use, indoor noise and current access. A missing noise value is unverified quietness; a missing supported-line result does not cover every rail service. Tube proximity does not measure vibration, crime bands do not predict personal safety, and a nearby school does not establish eligibility.
Source snapshots behind these examples
- Aircraft: Defra Round 4 (2022 mapping). Airport activity years vary and are not verified for every airport; missing readings do not establish quietness.
- Road and railway: Defra Round 4 (2022 mapping); 2021 road/rail activity; historical model, not live measurements.. Published values begin at 40 dB day / 35 dB night.
- Walking and mapped destinations: retained OSM snapshot 2026-10-30T21:24:51Z; packaged station snapshot, not live services.
- Crime: 2024-09 to 2026-08; resident population year 2024. Historical London-only bands, not safety grades.
- Schools: GIAS 2026-10-31; Ofsted 2026-09-30. Proximity does not establish admissions.
- Tube proxy: April 2026; 100 m setback, not measured vibration.
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