The UK’s ‘prettiest street’ is set to get £4.4m for a makeover to make it even more beautiful. The west London high street has featured in hit British films like Notting Hill and Paddington. Plans to “modernise” Portobello Road were recently approved during a Kensington and Chelsea Council meeting. Councillors agreed to spend on upgrading the pavements, lighting and greenery. Other upgrades will see new dropped kerbs installed for wheelchair access, additional parking bays created, and existing anti-terror barriers swapped out for sliding bollards. The council stated that funding for the makeover will come from the Community Infrastructure Levy, which is collected from developers. They added that no money will be taken from other services to pay for the high street’s reinvention. The revamp is due to start in January 2027. Other changes to the area include the council’s plans to use a system called Hydrorock to mitigate flooding, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, following the area’s floods in 2021. The switch from anti-terror barriers to sliding bollards comes after Portobello Road residents took …