SEO Services in Richmond

Richmond upon Thames’s population grew from 187,000 in 2011 to 195,200 in 2021, up 4.4 per cent, the slowest growth of the seven South London boroughs against 7.7 per cent for London, and it ranked 96th of the 309 local authority areas in England, a fall of two places. The ONS puts it as the fifth least densely populated of London’s 33 boroughs. The council’s own profile says the borough covers 5,095 hectares and “is the only London borough spanning both sides of the Thames”, with 21 and a half miles of river frontage. Nothing is published for the town centre on its own at census level. The council published its Richmond Town Centre Vision in January 2025, approved an initial £1.5 million budget in February 2026 and a set of priority projects in June 2026, and says around 73 per cent of the traffic on George Street is through traffic. Christmas at Kew runs from 13 November 2026 to 3 January 2027.

That mix matters commercially, and the registered offices need reading carefully, because Richmond is a word that turns up in a lot of company names for the wrong reasons. Richmond Business Improvement District Limited, incorporated on 10 November 2016, is registered at Oriel House, 26 The Quadrant, TW9 1DL. Haymarket Media Group Ltd. is registered at Bridge House, 69 London Road, Twickenham, in the borough but not the town. eBay (UK) Limited is registered at 1 More London Place, SE1 2AF, not in Richmond. The Royal Parks Limited, which manages Richmond Park and says the park is home to “over 630 red and fallow deer” and receives over 5 million visits a year, is registered at The Old Police House in Hyde Park.

Three corrections worth having straight. The adopted plan is no longer the 2018 one: the new Richmond Local Plan for 2024 to 2039 was adopted on 7 October 2025, replacing the Local Plan Review of 2015 to 2018 and the Twickenham Area Action Plan of 2013. Be Richmond, the business improvement district, went live in 2017 and began its second five year term on 1 April 2022 after a renewal vote of 79 per cent by number and 89 per cent by rateable value, which the council’s page records as 107 of 136 valid votes; by our arithmetic that term ends on 31 March 2027, and when we read the BID’s site and the council’s on 23 September 2026 neither mentioned a third term ballot. The levy is 1.74 per cent of the 2017 rateable value on premises at £35,000 and over, capped at £7,750 a year. And Richmond Bridge is Grade I and, in Historic England’s words, “now the oldest bridge over the Thames within the boundaries of Greater London”; the view from Richmond Hill is covered by the Richmond, Petersham and Ham Open Spaces Act 1902, which the council’s own history page says “preserved the view” and nothing grander. We measure that in enquiries, not rankings screenshots.