Kew Palm House Appeal: £1m Asked, Doors Close February 2027

Richmond Online covers the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, which sits on both banks of the river: Twickenham, Teddington, Whitton, Hampton, Hampton Hill, St Margarets and Strawberry Hill on one side, Richmond, Kew, Mortlake, Barnes, East Sheen, Ham and Petersham on the other. We report what the borough’s own records show, and we keep the everyday information you look up again and again in one place.

Start with these

• Richmond house prices: the borough average was £788,872 in May 2026, down 2.5% in a year, with a ward-by-ward median from 1,737 Land Registry sales that runs from £1,275,000 in Barnes to £499,950 in Hampton North.
• Trains to London: 22 minutes from Richmond to Waterloo at £4.00 off-peak, plus the zone, fare and annual Travelcard for every station in the borough.
• Roadworks and travel: the 16 roads being resurfaced between August and November 2026, what the council car parks charge, and where Hammersmith Bridge stands.
• Things to do: six days out that cost nothing and what the ticketed ones charge, checked against each venue this month.
• Planning: the Local Plan adopted in October 2025, the 5,928 homes it requires by 2039, and where the Stag Brewery and Twickenham Riverside schemes have got to.

The rest of the site

• News: council decisions, business openings and closures, planning and crime updates, each one traced back to the record it came from.
• What’s On: events across the borough, from Richmond Park, Kew and the riverside to the high streets in Twickenham and Teddington.
• Local Info: the practical pages, covering TW1, TW2, TW9, TW10, TW11, TW12, SW13 and SW14.

Every fact we publish is linked to its official source, so you can check it yourself.