Battersea Power Station, Nine Elms and Vauxhall - redevelopment plans and news
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SpookyFrank
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Same as on that Tate Gallery (both buildings designed by Giles Scott)
Yeah that's rank as well. It's like, we have this incredible building so let's competely change the proportions, the colour and material palettes by dumping a portakabin on top of it. The 'designers' of this shit probably got paid more than Scott did as well.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Clearly they have quite fancy Portakabins where SpookyFrank comes from.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Went down there at the weekend.
I think the crane(s) in front of the PS have gone since I was last there. There is now just what is called the "coaling jetty". I had it in my head that they would be preserved. But are they gone for good?
The only two options aren’t anything-goes or Prince Charles. It’s okay to think that the past had some beautiful buildings and you’d rather they weren’t messed around with.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
I agree entirely with all of this.
editor
hiraethified
It's imploding:
The different entrances for the affordable housing (left) and private (right) sections of Embassy Gardens
www.theguardian.com
The different entrances for the affordable housing (left) and private (right) sections of Embassy Gardens
Penthouses and poor doors: how Europe's 'biggest regeneration project' fell flat
The long read: Few places have seen such turbocharged luxury development as Nine Elms on the London riverside. So why are prices tumbling, investors melting away and promises turning to dust?
oryx
Sitting on the bok of the day
Good article.
The double standards with regard to fire safety in the social housing and private entrance areas is, ahem, interesting.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
It's imploding:
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The different entrances for the affordable housing (left) and private (right) sections of Embassy Gardens
Penthouses and poor doors: how Europe's 'biggest regeneration project' fell flat
The long read: Few places have seen such turbocharged luxury development as Nine Elms on the London riverside. So why are prices tumbling, investors melting away and promises turning to dust?
TBF walking down Nine Elms Lane as I occasionally do, its really striking how cheap a lot of it looks. No-one has done anything with the road to make it any nicer - trees, wider pavements, resurfacing etc - and the whole ambience of that side is of an airport service road. I appreciate the developments are probably intended to be viewed whilst walking along the riverside, but you still can't do that to any great extent (as you can along the north bank, or the south as far west as just beyond helicopter tower), and there isn't anything to create any kind of community when lockdown finally lifts anyway.
Finally for such a long road there is a real lack of shops - theres a reasonably sized Waitrose (which has the most out of proportion spirits aisle I've ever seen), but not much else (at least compared to Vauxhall Cross itself, or Wandsworth Road).
teuchter
je suis teuchter
I think the general concept is that there's a kind of parallel walking route, a block or two back from the big road. A kind of linear park for some of it. It's not really connected up yet, so hard to see how successful that will be. There will be some additional connections through the railway viaduct to the other side - the viaduct is currently impenetrable for quite a long stretch.
Things may make more sense when you can walk all the way along the river bank in front of the BPS site.
It's a strange area at present... I actually spent a few hours wandering around there last weekend. And it's so utterly different to what was there before... I struggle to picture where I am in the 'old world' version of only ten years ago or so.
Things may make more sense when you can walk all the way along the river bank in front of the BPS site.
It's a strange area at present... I actually spent a few hours wandering around there last weekend. And it's so utterly different to what was there before... I struggle to picture where I am in the 'old world' version of only ten years ago or so.
Doodler
You're quite nice when you smile
Even if they're full-time residents they can have pretty much everything delivered. People have lived that way in London's wealthiest areas for a long time.
Doodler
You're quite nice when you smile
True enough. There seems to have been a big expansion in recent years in London of the comfortable anonymous flat-dwelling way of life which used to be found in more central areas.
Doodler
You're quite nice when you smile
You just want me to write 'true enough' again don't you?
Doodler
You're quite nice when you smile
I never described those developments as epic. In fact, the search function confirms that I've never used that word all, which is a relief. I don't like this transformation either.
T & P
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Good article indeed. Thoroughly deppressing read, though I could not help smiling from one ear to another when I was reading the bit about slow sales and falling prices for the wanker flats.
It's not difficult to see why they might be struggling to flog £11m penthouses in Wandsworth. As the Chinese guy quoted in the article suggested himself, If I were a wealthy foreigner and had the kind of money required to buy one of those uber-luxury flats in the first place as a London pad, I certainly would seek to buy one at a more 'regal' area than Nine Elms or Vauxhall. If you want to impress your pals, navigating the six-lane, graffti-covered gyratory to arrive at the bulding doesn't quite have the same pull as the Outer Circle road around Regent's Park
It's not difficult to see why they might be struggling to flog £11m penthouses in Wandsworth. As the Chinese guy quoted in the article suggested himself, If I were a wealthy foreigner and had the kind of money required to buy one of those uber-luxury flats in the first place as a London pad, I certainly would seek to buy one at a more 'regal' area than Nine Elms or Vauxhall. If you want to impress your pals, navigating the six-lane, graffti-covered gyratory to arrive at the bulding doesn't quite have the same pull as the Outer Circle road around Regent's Park
editor
hiraethified
Look at this wealth-flaunting monstrosity. Tiny studio flat from £800,000.
damactower.co.uk
DAMAC Tower London Nine Elms Prices & Amenities - DAMAC UK
DAMAC Tower is London’s first fashion-branded high rise Versace Apartments with fashion-statement homes. Take a sneak peek into this Versace tower now!
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Ghost towers all over Battersea. If you walk along the river during the evening you can notice that most of these new tower blocks are maybe 30% occupied.
Wandsworth council has a massive surplus of funds from all the council tax they receive from these empty apartments. No need to plan for and build extra amenities as there isn't any extra demand for them.
Wandsworth council has a massive surplus of funds from all the council tax they receive from these empty apartments. No need to plan for and build extra amenities as there isn't any extra demand for them.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
Sadly, I think the guarantee is worth as much as their insistence that DAMAC Tower is "three minutes to Victoria, three minutes to Vauxhall Station, five minutes to Waterloo", and their insistence that Eton is a London landmark that you will live close to is.
I should however say that the view from the show-flat is magnificent if you like trains.
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T & P
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It's good to see the powers that be are keen to ensure iconic Grade II listed buildings in London can be seen unobstructed in all their glory. Why, you can see the chimneys so clearly still!
hash tag
Books, not bombs
I can't even see one of them from home anymore
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
*not guaranteed.
stethoscope
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Been wanting to get down to check whats happened in the area when things allow again, even though I just know I'll feel the same as I did when I popped by Coal Drop Yard just before lockdown and yearned for a night at Bagleys again! I bet Nine Elms Lane is unrecogniseable (RIP Club Colloseum!).
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