Lots Road power station is one of those schemes which has been lying around for what seems like an eternity. A fairly controversial scheme, it suffered due to part of the site being situated in Kensington & Chelsea and part of it lying within Hammersmith & Fulham.
Two large towers are planned, originally the smaller of the two (K&C) was refused. Hammersmith & Fulham gave consent. The developer however was adamant they wouldn't progress until the whole scheme was consented. The Secretary of State in 2006 then stepped in to grant permission. With the 2008 recession and the subsequent housing market crash, the project again stalled.
Last year the developers gained an amendment to their planning permission which lowered the affordable housing requirement by 100 units. LRR last visited the site at the end of October last year and as expected, nothing was happening, but now it appears there is. This was the site on Friday where diggers are now on site. For consistency we at LRR won't be stating this as under construction and it definitely won't be going down as a 2012 start for our yearly analysis 'Red Book'. Going on the current activity at the site though, we fully expect a 2013 start.
Here's what the scheme will look like when completed...
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