Reviews of Kensington Roof Garden

I decided on five stars - simply because the gardens still exist. I do agree with William that Planners could easily insist that all new buildings incorporate Roof Gardens. Overseas they have swimming pools and tennis courts - London could become known for its roof gardens perhaps?
I do have very clear recollections of this fabulous and quite unique feature of London, on a few occasions when my parents took me to London from Wales during the fifties.
I actually have a small souvenir booklet of photographs which I have kept - so Derry & Toms must have made a significant impression on me at the time.
It is wonderful that the gardens still exist albeit in a modified form. It is testament to the preservation order system, I suppose, that commercialism was not allowed remove them.
Hopefully they will be further protected and not allowed to fall into disrepair.
GjR

(5.0/5)

Kensington Roof Garden us good and its old - it was Biba's Roof Garden when I first saw it in the 1970s. But why hasn't London got more roof gardens like this? In fact why don't all the new buildings in London have roof gardens?

(4.0/5)

I forgot to mention that I would also recommend the restaurant (Babylon)- nice place, good food, good views (certainly over London, but possibly over part of the garden as well - I forget). I wondered if I had been a bit stingy with 3 stars in my review of couple of minutes ago so this time I give 4 to we average at 3.5, which I think is about right!

(4.0/5)

I got the feeling that this garden may have suffered in the interests of commercialism. It is attached to a restaurant and night club owned by Virgin and is hired out for events so has been kitted out with seating areas etc... Still - well worth a visit - it is extraordinary that the whole garden is on a roof above Kensington High Street. I have never seen a roof garden on anything like this scale before! And what a good use of what would be otherwise dead space in central London.

(3.0/5)