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Battersea A Power Station was built in the 1930s and Battersea B Power Station, to its east, in the 1950s. They were built to a near-identical design, providing the four-chimney structure. The power station was decommissioned between 1975 and 1983 and remained empty until 2014. It was designated as a Grade II listed building in 1980. In 2007 ...
The station, partially funded by the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station, [6] serves the redevelopment site and Battersea itself. The station is located on Battersea Park Road, close to Battersea Park railway station and within walking distance from Queenstown Road railway station , forming an out-of-station interchange with both.
Sir Standen Leonard Pearce (28 September 1873 – 20 October 1947) was an English electrical engineer, perhaps best remembered for designing Battersea Power Station, on which he was assisted by Sir Giles Scott and the architectural practice Halliday and Agate. He was a key player in rationalising electricity supply in Britain and in the design ...
The Battersea station was proposed to be located to the south of the Battersea Power Station development site, adjacent to Battersea Park Road. [ 33 ] Following criticism during the consultation by local residents that route options were not considered, the consultation was extended until August 2011 so that the public could comment on the ...
Battersea Power Station is featured on the cover of the Pink Floyd album Animals. A number of race courses in the Nintendo DS version of the 2009 racing video game Dirt 2 are set in the general area of Battersea. Its famous abandoned power station is also the site of a few race tracks in a few console and PC games from the Dirt series.
Regeneration of the area around Battersea Power Station started in 2013, with the power station structure secured by 2016. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The Power Station building opened in October 2022. It contains shopping and leisure facilities, office space and housing. [ 12 ]
Battersea Arts Centre; Battersea Central Library; Battersea General Hospital; Battersea Park railway station; Battersea Park Road railway station; Battersea Park Street Circuit; Battersea Power Station; Battersea railway station; Battersea Reference Library; Battersea Town Hall; St Mary's Church, Battersea; Brown Dog affair
Secondly the Central Electricity Generating Board reconfigured its generating capacity with small numbers of larger, more modern power stations away from the centre of London, which led to the decommissioning of Battersea A power station in 1975, Fulham Power Station in 1978 and Battersea B Power Station in 1983. By the mid-1980s the need to ...