Welcome to the Exhibition Road newsroom

See below for a list of the most recent press releases. 

Press releases

• Exhibition Road wins again- 22 March 2012 - Exhibition Road wins London Transport Award
• Community Award for Exhibtion Road - 6 March 2012 - Exhibition Road wins Institute of Civil Engineering Community Award
• Exhibition Road open for business - 1 February 2012 - The Mayor of London opens Exhibition Road 
• A world class streetscape - 8 December 2011 - End of the works in Exhibtion Road
• A more inclusive Exhibition Road - 15 July 2011 - Corduroy paving proves effective in real-life testing
• Exhibition Road wins its first award - 12 July 2011 Exhibtion Road wins the New London Awards Placemaking category
• Guide Dogs and the Council join forces on Exhibition Road project - 18 June 2010
  Guide Dogs and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, along with project partner Westminster City Council today announced a joint agreement on the Royal Borough’s redevelopment of Exhibition Road.
• Work Begins to Transform Exhibition Road for 2012 - February 2010
  The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, along with project partners Westminster City Council and TfL, have launched the start of streetscape work to transform Exhibition Road in time for the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.
• Open letter to Guide Dogs for the Blind - January 2010
  Cllr Merrick Cockell, Leader of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has appealed to the charity to work with the Council to make Exhibition Road the most accessible cultural destination in the world for all users.
• Balfour Beatty appointed to second phase of Exhibition Road project - 11 December 2009
  The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) has appointed Balfour Beatty to carry out the second phase of works on the Exhibition Road project, following Cabinet approval for the £21.8 million contract. Work on the second phase will start in January 2010.
• Stage 1 of Exhibition Road project completed - 4 December 2009
  The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea will this week implement the final traffic switchover around South Kensington.
• Night Time Resurfacing Works Planned for South Kensington - 1 October 2009
  The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea Council would like to remind residents that from Monday 5th October, Balfour Beatty will be carrying out night time resurfacing work for a period of three weeks.
• Temporary closure of Glendower Place and Old Brompton Road - 3 September 2009
  From 14 September Glendower Place and Old Brompton Road (just eastbound between Bute Street and Glendower Place) will be closed to traffic for approximately six weeks in order to accommodate roadwork improvements.
• Traffic Switches Over in South Kensington - 11 August 2009
  Council delivers first phase of traffic improvements as part of Exhibition Road project.
• Exhibition Road strides towards becoming world’s most accessible cultural destination - 24 July 2009
  The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has taken a further step towards its goal to make Exhibition Road the most accessible cultural destination in the world with the approval of the detailed design for a single surface to span the length of the famous road.
• Full steam ahead for Exhibition Road Transformation - 26 March 2009
  The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster City Council today announced that the funding package to deliver the innovative Exhibition Road streetscape improvement project is now completely finalised.
• Mayor agrees extra £10m TfL funding for Exhibition Road project - 16 January 2009
  The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, announced today that he has asked Transport for London (TfL) to contribute an additional £10 million to the costs of the improvements being planned to Exhibition Road.
• Transformation of Exhibition Road begins this week - 7 January 2009
  Work starts this week to unravel the one-way system around South Kensington Station, marking the first step in an ambitious project to transform the Exhibition Road area – the capital’s most important cultural destination.
• The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea gears up to road test Exhibition Road - October 2008
  The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and its Exhibition Road partners have announced they are teaming up with Imperial College London to install a trial panel at Imperial College to road test materials for the exciting transformation of the city’s premier cultural destination.
• Balfour Beatty appointed to first phase of Exhibition Road project - September 2008
  The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) has appointed Balfour Beatty to carry out the first phase of works relating to the Exhibition Road project.