Kingston First

£3 Million town centre improvement plan

Kingston First is the campaign to make Kingston Town the UK's first Business Improvement District.

Businesses in the centre of Kingston will soon be voting on whether to contribute towards a completely new kind of scheme which would create a cleaner, safer, well maintained and better promoted town centre over the next 5 years.

For more information see Kingston First.

Launch of Kingston First

The campaign was launched on 28th February 2003 at the Rotunda.

Photo shows from l-r Chris Williams, Director Property Division Marks and Spencer; Cllr Roger Hayes, Leader of Kingston Council; Edward Davey, MP for Kingston and Surbiton; Professor David Miles, Pro Vice-Chancellor External Affairs & Business Development Kingston University; Simon Thornhill, Managing Director Pulse Menswear Ltd Kingston, Nick Sharman, Director of Operations and Local Strategies, LDA.