I wrote a few weeks ago about
It wasn’t difficult to see this coming, the previous Chinese developer had spent a fortune on the site, but work never really got started, despite having just been given the final planning permission. By all accounts though, they made a tidy profit, having originally bought the site for £10 million. Which is one of the problems, really. Whilst the building itself is hugely iconic, it’s the land surrounding it which has more profit potential, as there’s no listed status and complex conservation work to worry about. Indeed, as this sale has shown, the land value has increased so much that it has been profitable for the developer just to sit on the land and not do very much.
The new developer could press straight ahead with the existing plans that have been granted planning permission, but I imagine that they’d want to put their stamp on it, and will be re-submitting their own plans. All of which means more delays, more political wrangling, and meanwhile the poor old power station just stands there, slowly crumbling…
warda al-jawahiry said:
Hi Frankie,
My name is warda and I am a postgradaute journalism student in london
doing a documentary on Battersea power station. I came
across your blog while researching and I was fascinated by some of the stuff
you said and the insight and eyewitness account that you gave into the
state of the station and the project as a whole.
I would love to have a chat with you, do you think that would be
possible to arrange, either on the phone or we could meet up? we really want
to get the opinion of somebody who lives in the area and has been
witnessing the changes or the lack of them first hand!
Please feel free to ask me any questions and I hope we can talk soon
waiting to hear from you
Warda