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Battersea Power Station, Nine Elms and Vauxhall - redevelopment plans and news

I think the problem is that the site will be very expensive to develop, due to the repairs needed on the existing power station and contamination of the rest of the site. Also big infrastructure improvements, whether rail or tube. This big cost is what's killed all the previous schemes, and it'll probably kill this one too.
 
I notice they're having another open day next Saturday, by the way.

I went when the Serpentine Gallery held that China art thing there a year or two ago, and it was pretty cool to be able to wander around the building.

It would be good to preserve it as a ruin and make the site into parkland, but I realise that someone would obviously have to stump up the £££ for that.
 
teuchter said:
I notice they're having another open day next Saturday, by the way.

I went when the Serpentine Gallery held that China art thing there a year or two ago, and it was pretty cool to be able to wander around the building.

It would be good to preserve it as a ruin and make the site into parkland, but I realise that someone would obviously have to stump up the £££ for that.
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Snap! :D It was pity that some of the areas were off-limits though as I wanted a proper nose around.
 
Snap! It was pity that some of the areas were off-limits though as I wanted a proper nose around
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same here.
had free bikes to ride about site :)
people in hi-res jackets say were you think your going :D

Power Station will be in the shadow new buildings :rolleyes:
 
Wandering around the site is a very nice way to send an hour or so - they even give you free bottles of water - and there's quite a pleasant walk from Vauxhall tube (but cover your noses when you get to Cringle Street).

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http://www.urban75.org/london/vauxhall-battersea-power-station.html
 
teuchter said:
The new tower completely dwarfs what is one of London's most dramatic buildings. I think that Battersea power station is iconic enough that there should be planning restrictions on the height of buildings in its vicinity in the same way as there are for St. Paul's.
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This.
 
The new tower is horrendous....diminshes the original building's impact, isn't particularly sympathetic and worst of all looks like crap.
 
hmmph. that was a large part of the 'green' credentials
I can't believe anyone's still lending money for projects this size?
 
I'm not sure that the chimney was a part of the "green" credentials as much as the "green" credentials were an excuse for the chimney.

I'm also surprised that anyone would be lending money for projects this size. Although applying for planning permission doesn't necessarily mean there's any funding in place to build the thing, of course.
 
Except the chimney had no function apart from driving the ventilation.

I think the current recession spells the ultimate doom for the power station building.
 
I dunno, surely if they're going for planning permission now (and not spending money on actual construction until the banks start lending in earnest again next year), something that big would take years and years to build. By then the housing market will have recovered enough to make it a goer.

I was walking across Vauxhall Bridge the other day and saw from a distance how huge the power station is compared to the little train that was going past it. It was like watching a very fast worm going past a sleeping dog :)
 
ovaltina said:
I dunno, surely if they're going for planning permission now (and not spending money on actual construction until the banks start lending in earnest again next year), something that big would take years and years to build. By then the housing market will have recovered enough to make it a goer.

I was walking across Vauxhall Bridge the other day and saw from a distance how huge the power station is compared to the little train that was going past it. It was like watching a very fast worm going past a sleeping dog :)
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The photos in the recent link don't give a true sense of its size. I think it's still the largest brick building in Europe so it's a shame to see it crumbling away.
 
It's weird that they had this massive redevelopment open month last year, and now it's all being shelved, due to complaints. Did they hold no consultation before letting architects loose? :confused:

Oh well hopefully we'll be able to go again this year :D
 
zenie said:
It's weird that they had this massive redevelopment open month last year, and now it's all being shelved, due to complaints. Did they hold no consultation before letting architects loose? :confused:

Oh well hopefully we'll be able to go again this year :D
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From a developer's point of view sometimes it's easier to propose something you know you probably won't get away with, wait for the complaints and then scale it down to something more reasonable in response.

Whereas if you'd proposed that same scaled-down thing to start with, there would still have had complaints and then you'd have to scale it down to something even smaller.

A kind of haggling really.
 
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