By Tom Lowe2021-02-03T06:00:00+00:00
Scheme to provide up to 2,550 new homes
HTA Design’s masterplan for a huge £1.4bn estate regeneration programme in Battersea has been given the green light
The south London scheme, which will provide up to 2,550 new homes, was passed at the second stage by the Greater London Authority in November last year but was given the final sign-off by the local council last week.
Led by a joint venture between housebuilder Taylor Wimpey and Wandsworth council, the scheme will also feature designs by Stirling Prize-shortlisted Henley Halebrown, Figure/Ground, LA Architects and landscape architect Farrer Huxley. Planning consultant Montague Evans is also on the project team.
“I do not think your traffic review has been done fairly. Redbridge are the developers here and the traffic review was done by Redbridge.
“You’re putting more than 600 people on this site but you’re telling me that’s only going to cause one extra car on the road? That’s unbelievable.
“If this was an external developer, this would have been kicked out ages ago.”
There were 53 written objections to the plans, including from neighbouring Loxford School.
Cllr Shamshia Ali (Lab, Cranbrook) responded: “The difficulty is, we do have a (housing) shortage and where do you put developments? It does not matter where you put them, there’s always going to be issues.”