Clear streets, commercial waste time banding

Commercial waste collection

Due to the built nature of the borough, most businesses present their waste and recycling on the public highway in bags to await collection. The Council’s Commercial Waste Service provides collections for many businesses, and there are numerous other private waste collection companies that also service the businesses in Kensington and Chelsea.

Without governance for when bags can be placed out for collection, some high streets have bags present on the public highway for large portions of the day. Due to the high number of restaurants, cafes, and takeaways, this can also have a negative impact on the pavements due to leakages from the food waste contained within the bags.

Timing of collections

We want to work with the businesses in these town centres to help make the locations cleaner and more attractive. This will benefit the businesses, their patrons, residents, visitors and anyone else that uses our town centres.

Time banding will create specific timed windows, spread over a 24 hour period, when businesses can place their waste and recycling out for collection. These timed slots will apply to nine town centre locations included in the regulations. Placing waste and recycling on the public highway outside of these timed windows would be an offence, resulting in the serving of a statutory notice. This can lead to the issuing of a fixed penalty notice (FPN) on the business responsible. Repeated offences could lead to prosecution under Section 47 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.

More details can be found on these Notice and Regulations links.

Locations and times

The following table provides details for the nine town centre locations and the timed windows for each. Column 3 provides the times that a business can place out their waste and recycling bags. Columns 4 indicates when the commercial waste collection companies will collect the waste and recycling. Outside of these times, no commercial waste or recycling should be present on the public highway.

All nine locations are searchable on our interactive map:

Brompton Road
Day period Businesses place out waste Waste collection times
Monday to Sunday
Day 7.30am to 9.30am 8am to 9.30am
Evening 5.30pm to 6pm 6pm to 7.30pm
Night 11pm to 11.30pm 11.30pm to 1am
Earl's Court Road
Day period Businesses place out waste Waste collection times
Monday to Sunday
Day 6.30am to 7am 7am to 8.30am
Evening 5.30pm to 6pm 6pm to 7.30 pm
Night 9.30pm to 10pm 10pm to 10.30pm
Night 1am to 1.30am 1.30am to 2am
Fulham Road
Day period Businesses place out waste Waste collection times
Monday to Sunday
Day 7.30am to 8am 8am to 9.30am
Evening 4.30pm to 5pm 5pm to 6.30pm
Night 9.30pm to 10pm 10pm to 10.30pm
Night 12.30am to 1am 1am to 1.30am
Gloucester Road
Day period Businesses place out waste Waste collection times
Monday to Sunday
Day 8.30am to 9am 9am to 10.30am
Evening 3.30pm to 4pm 4pm to 4.30pm
Night 9.30pm to 10pm 10pm to 10.30pm
Night 1am to 1.30am 1.30am to 2am
Kensington High Street
Day period Businesses place out waste Waste collection times
Monday to Sunday
Day 6.30am to 7am 7am to 8.30am
Evening 5.30pm to 6pm 6pm to 7.30pm
Night 9.30pm to 10pm 10pm to 10.30pm
Night 1am to 1.30am 1.30am to 2am
King's Road
Day period Businesses place out waste Waste collection times
Monday to Sunday
Day 9.30am to 10am 10am to 11.30am
Evening 5.30pm to 6pm 6pm to 7.30pm
Night 9.30pm to 10pm 10pm to 10.30pm
Night 12.30 am to 1am 1am to 1.30am
Ladbroke Grove, between Lancaster Road and Cambridge Gardens
Day period Businesses place out waste Waste collection times
Monday to Sunday
Day 6.30am to 7am 7am to 8.30am
Evening 4.30pm to 5pm 5pm to 6.30pm
Night 11.30pm to 12am 12am to 1.30am
Notting Hill Gate
Day period Businesses place out waste Waste collection times
Monday to Sunday
Day 6.30am to 7am 7am to 8.30am
Evening 4.30pm to 5pm 5pm to 6.30pm
Night 10pm to 10.30am 10.30pm to 12am
Night 12.30am to 1am 1am to 1.30am
Sloane Street
Day period Businesses place out waste Waste collection times
Monday to Sunday
Day 7.30am to 8am 8am to 9.30am
Evening 6pm to 6.30pm 6.30pm to 7.30pm
Night 10pm to 10.30pm 10.30pm to 12am

Last updated: 6 March 2025