St William mixed-use Battersea project approved

First project from St William joint venture to see approval resolved.

A new mixed-use project by St William has seen its planning permission resolved.

Based in Battersea, the project will regenerate an industrial site by providing 839 new homes.

This “exciting step” is a significant one for St William, which is a new and exciting joint venture comprising of The Berkeley Group and the National Grid.

Set up towards the end of last year, this resolution makes the Battersea project the first St William development to secure such planning permission.

Creating a “fantastic new place” in the London Borough of Wandsworth, the five-acre development will include even more than the 839 homes. Educational floor space, a nursery, food retail unit, cafe and public realm improvements will also be on this former gasworks site.

In addition, the project will see almost a quarter of homes set aside for affordable living and it will provide a huge boost to employment in the area, with 370 jobs available throughout construction and once that is completed, the mixed-use nature of this Battersea site means that more than 100 permanent employment opportunities will be available.

Crucially, the scheme will see a massive £367M of investment benefit the site – and this is something the joint venture of St William is striving to do throughout eight boroughs across Greater London over a 14-year period.

With the potential to provide more than 7,000 homes in these areas, St William will combine the best of both worlds, by harnessing the vast experience of Berkeley with the National Grid’s portfolio of redundant brownfield sites, using these as locations to build great new places for residential dwellings.

Overall, there will be 12 buildings on the site that will range in size from two- to 26-storeys, complemented by a new public square.

The project, located between Battersea Power Station and Battersea Park, is well on schedule to become the first development to start on site – some time next year – in the drive to remediate 83 acres of land which will then become key parts of their own communities.

Alison Dowsett is the Managing Director of St William, and she explained how this planning resolution will provide a positive impact.

She said: “We are delighted to secure a resolution to grant for the first St William site. This will open a former industrial site up for the first time in over 150 years and create a fantastic new place for the borough.”

The first home will be occupied in 2019 and Phil Edwards, Director of St William, added: “This consent is another exciting step forward in the regeneration of Nine Elms on the South Bank and we look forward to starting work to deliver the first St William development.”

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