[3] Kensington is also home to the historic Deane Road Jewish Cemetery, which was awarded £494,000 in 2010 by the Heritage Lottery Fund to aid restoration.

Since 2000, money from the Kensington Regeneration programme has allowed improvements to be made to the area, with run-down houses redeveloped and street monitors put in place to maintain social order.

[6] Kensington Vision, a project funded by Mersey Broadband and co-ordinated by Liverpool John Moores University, ran from 2005 to 2006.

[7][8] There are regular buses (numbers 8, 9, 10, and variants thereof) providing services to the city centre, as well as to Huyton and St Helens.

Controversy arose when viewers pointed out that the road he lived on throughout his stay was actually a mile away in Fairfield and that shots of boarded-up houses, edited into the show to support the opinion from a local person that there was little sign of regeneration in Kensington, were actually from Edge Hill and were scheduled for demolition.