40km/h speed limit on Kensi Road from November 2025

In November 2025, SA’s Department for Infrastructure and Transport started rolling out 40 km/h time-based speed limits on roads near schools that otherwise have speed limits of 50 km/h or higher. This project, which will improve children’s safety when they...

Lost Forever – a call to save our heritage

Free public talk! Denise Schumann OAM, Historical & Heritage Consultant, and Dr Christel Mex, SA Greens Candidate for Dunstan and local resident, will tell the tragic tale of the SA Planning System and its failure to protect one of Kensington’s oldest...

Sad news for 69 High Street announced December 2025

Throughout 2025 the Kensington Residents’ Association endeavoured to prevent the demolition of the local heritage-listed building at 69 High Street, which was the first Kensington Elementary School, dating back to the 1840s. The Council Assessment Panel (CAP)...

Fun at the Rising Sun

Owners Grant and Jacqui Goodall threw a wonderful party in October 2025 to celebrate 180 years since the Rising Sun Inn was built in Bridge Street, Kensington. Locals and other regular patrons joined in the fun by dressing in 1800s style. Happy big birthday to the...

High Street heritage under demolition threat

69 High Street, Kensington, 21 May 2025 This modest building at 69 High Street was formerly the Kensington Village school house. It is thought to have been built in the 1840s-1850s. Although the building has stood firm for approximately 180 years, it now stands...

5 Oct: 5 Years on the Green

—- A HIGH STREET CAFE EVENT —- A one-day music and food festival celebrating High Street Café’s 5th birthday.   Sunday 5th October 2025, 10am-8pm, Mary MacKillop Reserve, Phillips Street (adjacent to High Street Cafe) Family fun from 10am  –...