Battersea Power Station final 16 acres: masterplan implications for project teams
Reviewed by Tom Sullivan
First reported on The Construction Index
30 Second Briefing
Studio Egret West has been appointed to rework Rafael Viñoly’s original masterplan for the final 16 acres of the 42-acre Battersea Power Station riverside site, which already holds outline consent for 3.2 million sq ft of residential, commercial, cultural and leisure floorspace. The wider redevelopment, backed by Malaysian shareholders since 2012, has delivered over 2,200 homes, 800,000 sq ft of offices, a new Underground station and more than 150 retail and leisure units around the Grade II* listed power station. Remaining phases will tie into the 14-acre Nine Elms Park and six-acre Power Station Park, with construction of two Gehry-designed buildings on Electric Boulevard due to start within months.
Technical Brief
- Undeveloped plots already carry outline consent for 3.2 million sq ft of mixed-use floorspace.
- Final phases must physically stitch into the 14-acre Nine Elms Park linear green corridor.
- Masterplan also has to interface with the six-acre riverfront Power Station Park public realm.
- Two Gehry-designed buildings will complete Electric Boulevard, the pedestrianised high street spine.
Our Take
With outline permission for 3.2 million sq ft still to play for over the remaining 16 acres, Battersea Power Station sits at the upper end of mixed-use urban regeneration schemes in our Infrastructure coverage, which typically involve far smaller residual plots at this stage of build-out.
The 10–15 year planning horizon for the Battersea/Nine Elms area effectively locks in a long pipeline of enabling works, utilities coordination and public realm delivery, which contractors and consultants in London can treat as a stable workload counter-cyclical to shorter residential cycles.
The combined 20 acres of Nine Elms Park and Power Station Park means green infrastructure is a major structuring element of the masterplan, signalling that future phases will likely face stringent interface requirements between high-density blocks and large open-space drainage, biodiversity and maintenance regimes.
Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.
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