Padel Social Club’s Paddington venue has opened, becoming the first of three new London sites promised when the operator closed a £5.5 million funding round in May. The Zone 1 club is now taking bookings, months before the two remaining sites at Kentish Town and The O2 are due.
Where it is and what’s there
The venue sits at 5 Kingdom Street, W2 6BD, a short walk from Paddington station. It has four courts – two covered, two outdoor – and is open daily from 7am to 11pm. Bookings run through Playtomic, where the courts are listed by name: two outdoor courts and a covered Capital Group Court among them.
Pricing isn’t published on PSC’s own venue page, so it’s worth checking Playtomic directly for rates at your preferred slot – they tend to vary by time of day. The club does list a public padel class at £40 and racket hire at £6.50, with free hire for anyone holding a valid student ID. Anyone who’s tried to book a peak slot at the Earls Court site will know PSC’s courts fill up fast – worth booking Paddington a few days ahead rather than turning up hoping for a same-day gap, at least while the venue settles into a regular pattern.
For anyone coming from further out, Paddington’s rail links do a lot of the work here. Great Western services from Reading, Slough and the wider Thames Valley all terminate a few minutes’ walk from the club, and the Elizabeth line and Bakerloo, Circle, District and Hammersmith & City lines all stop at the station too. It’s an easy add-on to a commute or a day trip into town, in a way that PSC’s other sites – tucked into Earls Court and North Greenwich – aren’t.
Why Paddington mattered to this expansion
When PSC announced the £5.5 million round in May – backed by Clark Group, Active Partners, and grime artist Stormzy – Paddington was named as the site that would open first, with a target of June 2026. It has landed a couple of months behind that original date, but the venue is now live and taking bookings.
The location was always the headline part of the plan. PSC called it “London’s most central padel club,” and at Zone 1, a few minutes from one of the capital’s busiest rail and Underground hubs, that’s a fair claim. For players who’d normally travel out to Earls Court or further afield for a PSC game, Paddington puts a court within easy reach of anyone arriving by train, tube, or bus into the station.
What’s still to come
Kentish Town and The O2 remain on track for later this year. Kentish Town is set to be PSC’s largest site – eight courts, split five indoor and three outdoor – and will serve North London players who currently have fewer nearby options. The O2 site already runs two outdoor courts on a partial basis and will expand to five once its full build is finished.
Together, the three venues add 17 courts to PSC’s network, a significant jump for an operator that until this year ran a single flagship site in Earls Court. Paddington’s opening is the first proof point that the expansion is delivering on schedule, if not quite on the original date.
For a broader look at where else to play across the capital, our guide to padel courts in London covers all the current options by zone – including PSC’s earlier sites at Earls Court and The O2.