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Although located close to Vauxhall station and the new US Embassy, the route would not serve existing residential areas. [24] By November 2010, planning permission for the Battersea Power Station project had been granted by Wandsworth Council, with £203 million pledged by the developers towards a future extension of the Northern line.
Battersea Power Station is a decommissioned coal-fired power station located on the south bank of the River Thames in Nine Elms, Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth. It was built by the London Power Company (LPC) to the design of Leonard Pearce , Engineer in Chief to the LPC, and CS Allott & Son Engineers.
Human settlement in England Vauxhall River Thames looking upstream from Vauxhall Bridge showing (left) St George Wharf Tower and (centre) Battersea Power Station, and the shorelines, left to right, of Vauxhall, Nine Elms, Battersea and Pimlico Vauxhall Location within Greater London Population 14,262 (Princes ward, 2011) OS grid reference TQ305785 • Charing Cross 1.59 mi (2.6 km) NNE London ...
Battersea is a large district in southwest London, ... toward Vauxhall, ... the Grade II listed building was undergoing renovation back to its 1920s glory by its ...
Battersea Power Station is a London Underground station in Battersea, London, which forms the terminus of the Northern line extension to Battersea. The station, partially funded by the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station , [ 6 ] serves the redevelopment site and Battersea itself.
Nine Elms Lane was named around 1645, after a row of elm trees bordering the road, though a path probably existed between York House and Vauxhall from the 1200s. In 1838, at the time of construction of the London and Southampton Railway , the area was described as "a low swampy district occasionally overflowed by the River Thames [whose] osier ...
Grosvenor Bridge, originally known as, and alternatively called Victoria Railway Bridge, is a railway bridge over the River Thames in London, between Vauxhall Bridge and Chelsea Bridge. Originally constructed in 1860, and widened in 1865 and 1907, the bridge was extensively rebuilt and widened again in the 1960s as an array of ten parallel bridges.
Running through the ancient parishes of Battersea and Lambeth the construction was reported to have displaced about 700 houses. It dissected the areas of Vauxhall and Lambeth, creating an artificial divide. [6] Passage underneath the viaduct is obtained through one of the many tunnels constructed underneath the viaduct for street level access.