Place Strategies Engagement : 4 Aug - 17 Sept 2025
Respond to the survey on the draft strategy or join an event
Public Art Commissions on Westbourne Grove, Queensway and Porchester Road
Place Strategies Engagement: 4 Aug - 17 Sept 2025
What are the Place Strategies
We are developing Place Strategies for two clusters of high streets in Paddington - Bayswater.
The Place Strategy sets out a long-term vision and series of objectives for the high street, alongside spatial opportunities to guide future proposals by the Council, landowners, community groups and other local stakeholders.
Have your say!
Based on what we heard in 2023, we have drafted a strategy for each high street cluster. We want to hear what matters most to you and what's missing. Your feedback will help shape the final strategy documents, which will be completed in Autumn/ Winter 2025 and used to guide future projects.
The engagement will run from 4 August to 17 September 2025.
You can engage by:
1. Responding to the Surveys
Place Strategy Survey for Praed Street
Thank you for your interest in the Place Strategy for Praed Street. The following survey will take approximately 5 minutes to complete. Your input is invaluable in ensuring the final Place Strategy can best reflect your ideas and ambitions for the area and inform future design proposals.
Place Strategy Survey for Westbourne Grove,Queensway and Porchester Road
Thank you for your interest in the Place Strategy for Westbourne Grove and Queensway. The following survey will take approximately 5 minutes to complete. Your input is invaluable in ensuring the final Place Strategy can best reflect your ideas and ambitions for the area and inform future design proposals.
Submit a Local Story!
Share your local stories to help capture the rich local stories, heritage, and cultural character that make the high street unique.
Your insights and perspectives, past and present, will help us celebrate the local identity, ensuring that your knowledge and visions as residents, visitors and business-owners, are incorporated in the development of the Place Strategy.
2. Viewing the Exhibition
View the online exhibition boards here:
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Or visit the on-street exhibition outside Paddington Square and 173 Queensway from 15 August - 17 September 2025.
3. Joining a public event
Join us at two drop-in sessions at the on-street exhibition with the Council team for you to ask questions and share feedback on the design objectives and proposed improvements for each high street.
- 11 September: 16:30-18:30 - for Praed Street at Paddington Square public space
- 17 September: 16:30-18:30 - for Westbourne Grove, Queensway and Porchester Rd at Paddington Library
(location updated 16.09.2025 due to weather forecast)
Join a Storytelling Walking Tour and Workshop about Bayswater with The London Ambler and Contemporary Art Society called Surroundings: the Architectural and Social Landscape of Queensway.
The tour is followed by a participatory workshop inviting participants to share their own perspectives on Queensway and Westbourne Grove — its character, stories, and possibilities — helping to shape a co-produced vision for public art that reflects and celebrates its unique identity.
Select one of the following sessions:
- 15 September: 17:00-19:00
- 16 September: 17:00-19:00
- 17 September: 12:00-14:00
Secure your place and for more information here: Eventbrite - Walking Tour and Workshop
Ark King Solomon Academy Workshop
As part of the Young Policy Makers programme, Westminster City Council’s City Lions partnered with architects OMMX to run a creative workshop at Ark King Solomon Academy. The session invited local young people to share their thoughts on the Paddington neighbourhood and imagine ways it could be improved.
The Young Policy Makers initiative connects young Londoners with professionals and decision-makers in the built environment — a space where their voices are often overlooked or heard too late. Through hands-on workshops and a public programme, participants explore the issues that matter most to them, drawing on their lived experiences to shape ideas for change.
This is about listening — and learning — from the next generation of designers, planners, and community leaders.
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Public Art Commissions on Westbourne Grove, Queensway and Porchester Road
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Westminster Shopfront Design Toolkit
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High Street Rental Auctions - Paddington and Bayswater Designation for Area
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Nutford Place Survey
Tell us what you think about the ideas for Nutford Place
Submit a Local Story!
Share your local stories to help capture the rich local stories, heritage, and cultural character that make the high street unique.
Your insights and perspectives, past and present, will help us celebrate the local identity, ensuring that your knowledge and visions as residents, visitors and business-owners, are incorporated in the development of the Place Strategy.
Place Strategy Survey for Westbourne Grove,Queensway and Porchester Road
Thank you for your interest in the Place Strategy for Westbourne Grove and Queensway. The following survey will take approximately 5 minutes to complete. Your input is invaluable in ensuring the final Place Strategy can best reflect your ideas and ambitions for the area and inform future design proposals.
Place Strategy Survey for Praed Street
Thank you for your interest in the Place Strategy for Praed Street. The following survey will take approximately 5 minutes to complete. Your input is invaluable in ensuring the final Place Strategy can best reflect your ideas and ambitions for the area and inform future design proposals.
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