Your community, your voice
What is a Citizens' Panel?
The Citizens’ Panel is a group of up to 2,000 residents who have agreed to give their views on consultation topics throughout the year. Panel membership is broadly representative of the borough’s population to ensure that we hear a diverse range of voices.
By listening to a variety of local views, the Council can:
- Gather opinions to reflect the views of different communities
- Help ensure the high standards of Council services are maintained
- Help identify resident priorities for improving life in Kensington and Chelsea
- Reliably inform our decision-making process
Ways to get involved
Register for the Citizens' Panel
Being a member of our Citizens’ Panel involves three-four surveys a year and the chance to participate in periodic in person discussions and events. You can sign up to the Citizens’ Panel here.
Take part in the latest panel survey
View the latest Panel survey and share your views. Please note you will only be able to complete the survey if you are a member of the Citizens’ Panel.
The Citizens’ Panel helps us achieve our ambition to widen resident participation in local decision-making and gives us a real understanding of what our residents want. As a Council, we are committed to listening to a broad range of resident voices.
Recently closed activities
Citizens' Panel - Supporting emotional health and wellbeing in the borough
Mental health and wellbeing refers to our state of thinking, feeling and behaving which affects our ability to cope with life, build and maintain relationships, make decisions, and contribute to our communities. Anyone can be affected by mental health problems. Approximately 1 in 4 adults will experience a mental health problem someday such as anxiety and depression. When you get help, the right advice and support information, you are more likely to fully recover and learn to deal with...
Citizens' Panel - Improving our streets: Travel options for Kensington High Street and beyond
In 2021 the Council commissioned a report from the Centre for London (CfL) to investigate the changing way residents and visitors get around the borough as the Covid pandemic receded. The Council also sought suggestions about how our streets and places could be adapted to improve walking, cycling and the use of public transport. The report also had a particular focus on Kensington High Street as a primary east-west corridor linking Kensington and Chelsea to other boroughs. The CfL...
Citizens' Panel - Making the borough safer
You have consistently told us that community safety is one of your top priorities and making the borough safer again emerged as a key theme from the recent Let's Talk K&C consultation used to develop the Council Plan. We previously sought your views to inform the current Community Safety Plan and action plans. We now want to seek your views again to monitor progress and to see if there has been any shift in your attitudes and experiences. This will build on the benchmarks set in the previous...