Kingston 2025 Street Parties

Kingston 2025 Street parties banner with an image of people celebrating Queen Elizabeth's coronation at their own street party

Kingston loves a street party as these great photos from our archive show, and now’s the time to make your plans for 2025.

Kingston 2025 is all about celebrating our past, present and future, hosting a street party on your road is one great way to get old and young involved - right on your doorstep! Street parties can build connections with your neighbours and be great fun! It’s free to apply to temporarily close your road to hold a street party in Kingston just for close-by neighbours. 

The public Kingston 2025 festivities officially open on Saturday 3 May and events will be running all summer. When your street party is approved we will share a downloadable pack of posters, invites, activities and how to share your party photos so you can potentially be included in the Kingston’s archive yourselves! 

Whilst there is no need to theme your street party here are some ideas you and your neighbours might like

  • You could take inspiration from our place as the original royal borough - our residents have turned out in style for Coronations, Royal Jubilees and Weddings. 

  • Or mark the 80th anniversary of VE day or VJ day and commemorate the borough’s pride as home of the Hawker aircraft

  • You could celebrate Kingston’s diverse and rich communities with world wide heritage- perhaps sharing a favourite traditional dish from different heritages   


To apply for a road closure you need to complete a street party application form telling us about your plans and showing support from 75% of residents and businesses affected. We’ll get in touch to provide support and guidance and it will take us up to 8 weeks to approve the closure. Read more about street party road closures in Kingston on our website. 

Fairfield Place Coronation Party
Image courtesy of Kingston Heritage Service Fairfield Place Coronation Party
Image courtesy of Kingston Heritage Service Fairfield Place Coronation Party

Tips for a great street party 

An individual will need to be our point of contact for your street party but we recommend working as a small team to share the work.

Keep things simple by organising things like food, drinks or entertainment between you and your neighbours and steer away from using commercial suppliers where you’ll need different permissions.  

Make sure that items you position in your road can be cleared quickly for emergency vehicles and that pedestrians and cyclists can move through. Think about making use of gardens or verges.

Show consideration for others who may decide not to join in by keeping noise to a minimum particularly in the evening, allow time for proper clearing up and finishing on time.