IN Brief:
- Prospect Place South will add around 300 homes across two Gehry Partners-designed buildings.
- Sisk is delivering 65,000 sq ft of commercial space, a community hub, and expanded cycle facilities.
- Completion is scheduled for 2030 while planning continues across Battersea Power Station’s remaining land.
Battersea Power Station Development Company and Sisk have started construction on Prospect Place South, the next major phase of the 42-acre Battersea Power Station regeneration in south-west London. The scheme will deliver about 300 homes across two Gehry Partners-designed buildings, together with 65,000 sq ft of commercial space, a 15,000 sq ft community hub, and an expanded cycle facility.
Rosewood House and Hayworth House will extend the existing Prospect Place development and complete another section of Electric Boulevard, the pedestrianised route through the neighbourhood. Sisk is acting as main contractor, working with the development company and wider project team to deliver the second group of Frank Gehry-designed residential buildings on the site.
Construction is expected to run to 2030. The development team says the phase will create around 400 jobs and is targeting 20% of the workforce from the local area. The scheme also includes green roofs on both buildings and is intended to achieve at least a 10% biodiversity net gain, while design changes have reduced the development’s projected carbon footprint compared with earlier iterations.
The start on site gives a firm delivery point to a package that had already been progressing through design and procurement. Prospect Place South forms part of the remaining half of the Battersea development rather than the original power-station restoration, so construction is increasingly taking place inside an established mixed-use district rather than on an isolated brownfield site.
That changes the logistics. Completed sections of Battersea Power Station already contain more than 2,200 homes, around 800,000 sq ft of offices, and more than 170 shops, bars, restaurants, and leisure venues. More than 40 million visitors have passed through the destination since the restored power station opened in 2022, creating a live public environment around the plots that remain under development.
The development company is also preparing the next planning step for the remaining land. Studio Egret West has been appointed to evolve Rafael Viñoly’s original masterplan, and a revised planning application is expected to cover the final 16 acres, with potential for up to 3.2 million sq ft of residential, commercial, cultural, and leisure space. The remaining Battersea masterplan has already moved back into active design; Prospect Place South now puts one of the later delivery packages physically under way.
For Sisk, the contract adds another large central London residential and mixed-use scheme where site logistics can be as decisive as structural delivery. Access, lifting, deliveries, temporary works, and workforce movements have to be managed alongside residents, office occupiers, retailers, and visitors using completed parts of the estate. Battersea’s success as a destination therefore makes the remaining construction more constrained, not less.
The commercial component adds further interfaces. Roughly 65,000 sq ft of space for shops, cafés, and restaurants will require coordination between base-build works, incoming occupier requirements, servicing routes, and public-realm finishes. The 15,000 sq ft community hub and 600-space cycle hub introduce additional uses that have to be integrated into the residential buildings and surrounding pedestrian network before occupation.
Prospect Place South also arrives as the regeneration changes from landmark restoration to infill and completion. Major mixed-use developments often reach a stage where early infrastructure and signature buildings are occupied while later plots must be designed around a neighbourhood that exists in reality rather than only on a masterplan. Construction sequencing, noise, access, servicing, and public safety become more prominent as the number of occupied neighbours rises.
The biodiversity and carbon commitments will have to survive that delivery process. Green roofs and lower-carbon design decisions can be fixed at planning stage, but their eventual performance depends on subcontract packages, material choices, workmanship, and maintenance access remaining aligned through procurement and construction. A programme running to 2030 leaves considerable scope for specification changes unless those requirements are carried into detailed packages.
Ground-breaking removes one uncertainty from the next phase. Sisk now has a live construction programme for Rosewood House and Hayworth House while the development company continues to shape the final 16 acres around them. By 2030, Prospect Place South is intended to extend Electric Boulevard with homes, commercial space, and community facilities, while the revised masterplan determines how the final major plots are delivered.
