Chelsea Square Garden

Always great experience to walking here!

Came here with my dog thinking it's a public common. Turns out that it's a gated private garden for residents only. So we weren't able to enter.

It's a lovely garden but it is in accessible due to under locked gates. Having checked on the council website, Chelsea Common is indeed a common therefore is meant to be accessible to the public. However it states that Chelsea Common is off Cale St (SW3), therefore either this is;

1) mislabelled by Google and is or should be called Chelsea Square Gardens.
2) still Chelsea Common (which used be a much larger estate than has been reduced & split up over the years) and therefore should be publically accessible.

If it's no 1, then it is unclear as to why it's not labelled correctly and in addition it is not registered under the 1851 Act (aka private gardens where residents pay additional council tax).

In either case there needs to be clarity from the council and the relevant residents association in relation to this and it's bye laws.

This isn't the first place within the Chelsea & Fulham boroughs that claims to be private land or have restrictions that aren't accurate. If it is indeed still a common, then it is unlawful for these restrictions to be in place and quite shameful if so.

Beautiful, but they need more police to fine the people who leave dogs do their business without picking it up...

It's called Chelsea Common but it's actually a private garden with locked gates so couldn't go in to have a look. But looks nice from the outside. Just a pity that only a few people can go in.

Private place no entry to public

Parking restrictions, residents only.

Private garden. Nice area to look at tho