Subsequent to 20 Numerous years Battersea Power Station to always be Converted into 3, 500 Latest Stores
Subsequent to 20 Numerous years Battersea Power Station to always be Converted into 3, 500 Latest Stores
Battersea Power Station has stood empty for a long time awaiting development and approval of plans. Now it’s been announced that in October 2013, conversion into new homes will finally begin thirty years after the power station closed. The Battersea Power Station Development Company is behind the venture and in charge of the restoration of the Grade II listed building.
The restoration project will come across countless pounds and will have to include much major repair work before any renovation is in fact undertaken. The initial phase of the building work is to repair the external brickwork, clean the towers, do work to the steel frame, repair and replace windows and CN505 power station defeat and rebuild the famous chimneys. The chimneys will soon be reconstructed to exactly the same design but utilizing the latest safety and structural standards. The theory is to help keep the building looking exactly the same and as a star of London.
A particular team has been come up with to work on the webpage and the key developer for phase 1 as been announced as Carillion with the architect being Ian Simpson Architects and de Rijke Marsh Morgan. The contract for the first phase is rumoured to be worth around £400 million and will soon be among the largest in London at the present time. Carillion is among the UK’s largest construction firms and already has numerous high profile development schemes udder its belt such as Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport and Crossrail and the Royal Liverpool Hospital Project.
The initial phase will soon be called Circus West and is to the west side of the Power Station and will include around 850 one, two and three bedroom apartments, also town houses and luxury penthouses. There may also be shops, commercial units, cultural buildings an d community spaces. When completed the entire development will provide more than 3,500 new homes. It will also create a large quantity of new jobs.
Battersea Power Station is the largest brick building in Europe and was noted for its Art Deco interior and decor. It’s a classic coal-fired power station on the lender of the Thames river, in South-West London. It is in fact two individual power stations that have been built at different times but within one building. The initial part was built in the 1930’s and the next part 20 years later. They have an identical design giving the iconic 4 chimney look. The ability station stopped making electric in 1983 and has stood empty ever since. However appearances in a variety of music videos for the Beaatles, Take That and Judas Priest and importantly gracing the cover of Pink Floyd’s 1977 album Animals have managed to get a distinctive landmark for London.
Ahead of the 1930’s it had been for the neighborhood councils to provide electric and so there have been small power stations to get the job done for different districts and the energy was useful for a specific factory or industry and excess was sold to the public. However as these were small places the product quality and voltage and frequency of the power differed greatly. In 1925 the Government decided there should be a unitary power grid with uniform standards. The London Power Company was formed from many of the smaller power suppliers.
Their first super power station was built at Battersea as the proximity to the river allowed for easy cooling of the systems and good for delivery of the coal and was in the center of London to provide electric to. There was much opposition on the causes that the building would be an eye-sore so the business introduced a famous architect to design the exterior. When it opened it had been the absolute most thermally efficient power station in the world. It had been built in 2 stage and by the full time the next phase was completed the UK’s electric supply have been nationalised and ownership was passed to the British Electricity Authority.
There have been numerous redevelopment plans through the years as different companies took over the site. In 2004 there is a redevelopment project in the pipe line but the existing debts of over £750 million, the requirement that any development must add a £200 million contribution to a proposed extension of the London Underground, the need for a waste transfer plant and cement factory on the banks of the river and the conversation required, managed to get an unattractive investment and a difficult commercial project.
In 2006 it had been bought by an Irish company for £400 million. They initially planned to refurbish the site in to a public venue and housing. The plan was granted permission to proceed but the Irish company’s debts meant the administrations were called in at the conclusion of December 2011 and in July 2012 it had been sold to a Malaysian owned consortium for exactly the same amount as the Irish company purchased for. Most interested parties simply wanted to demolish the structure and redevelop the land and it’s took careful negotiation to locate a firm ready to undertake the conservation and refurbishment, while having a commercial venture.