Policy information sourced from Wandsworth Core Strategy

Policy PL 11 Nine Elms and the adjoining area in north-east Battersea

High density mixed use development will be promoted around Battersea Power Station and nearby sites to help create a “sense of place”, enhance the area’s heritage significance and create a dynamic mixed use quarter, including shops and services forming a potential CAZ Frontage (major new town centre), with improved public transport links including the Northern Line Extension (NLE). New developments in the area will need to take account of the impact on local views of the Power Station as identified in the Council’s Supplementary Planning Document Local Views, adopted February 2014.

New homes and jobs along the riverside will be provided through the redevelopment of existing low density industrial and warehouse sites, taking care to ensure that existing operations of the three safeguarded wharves are not prejudiced.

South of Nine Elms Lane the retention, consolidation and intensification of the wholesale market within the New Covent Garden Market (NCGM) main site and mixed-use development at the apex of the main site including a retail market and complementary uses at the Garden Heart, offices and residential will be supported. New residential led mixed use development can be developed around a permeable framework of streets with the provision of a new linear park linking Vauxhall to Battersea Power Station providing a spatial setting and adding value to new urban development.

High density mixed use development will be promoted around Vauxhall, including on the NCGM Northern site, to help create a sense of place, and improve the centre to form part of a new smaller CAZ Frontage (local centre) providing new local shops and services. Improvements to public transport will be sought, as well as new public open spaces in line with Policy PL4. Tall buildings may be appropriate in this area subject to the qualifications set out in Policy IS3 and the criteria based policy on tall buildings DMPD Policy DMS4.

The Stewarts Road/Silverthorne Road area, which forms part of the Queenstown Road SIL, will continue to provide a reservoir of land for industry, logistics and waste management and enhancements will be sought to the environment of and access to the industrial area.

The Council will work with the GLA, Lambeth Council, landowners and other partners through the Nine Elms Vauxhall Strategy Board to deliver the vision set out in the Council’s policies and the Opportunity Area Planning Framework to guide the comprehensive redevelopment of the whole area and to ensure that adequate infrastructure is available, including significant new public transport provision, new schools, health and community facilities and strategic sustainable energy infrastructure.

Funding will be provided through CIL and sought from planning obligations linked to developments on sites within the Opportunity Area in accordance with the principles set out in the DIFS or any updated study.

Development in the Nine Elms Vauxhall Opportunity Area (including part of Vauxhall in Lambeth) within the Central Activities Zone (CAZ) should aim to meet targets in the London Plan 2015 of over 20,000 new homes and 25,000 new jobs over the next 20 years or so. The Wandsworth part of the Opportunity Area has the potential to deliver over 14,000 new homes (13,462 in the plan period) and around 20,000 jobs (gross).

Further details of the Council’s policies for Nine Elms are set out in the Area Spatial Strategy for Nine Elms and individual site allocations in the Site Specific Allocations Document.

For more information please see the Wandsworth Core Strategy