IN Brief:
- John Sisk is understood to be nearing a £250m-£280m Battersea package.
- Phase 3C would add 306 homes, commercial space, a community hub, and cycle facilities.
- The scheme would continue one of London’s biggest regeneration programmes.
John Sisk & Son is understood to be closing in on the next major package at Battersea Power Station, with phase 3C expected to carry a construction value of roughly £250m to £280m. The package would cover two 15-storey Gehry-designed buildings that complete the next section of the Prospect Place development, extending the western side of Electric Boulevard and adding another substantial residential and commercial phase to the wider regeneration scheme.
The approved phase is set to deliver 306 homes alongside around 65,000 sq ft of commercial space for shops, cafés, and restaurants. It also includes a 15,000 sq ft community hub and an expanded cycle facility with capacity for 600 bikes. Battersea Power Station Development Company secured detailed planning consent for the phase last year, with construction expected to begin later in 2026 and completion targeted for 2029. One of the two buildings is intended to include senior living accommodation.
If confirmed, the award would add another high-profile London project to Sisk’s urban portfolio. For Battersea, it would mark the next step in a programme that has moved from restoration and public opening into the longer task of completing the remaining plots around the power station itself. More than £5bn has already been invested in the wider site since 2012, and later phases are now carrying the burden of turning a landmark redevelopment into a functioning district with greater depth of use.
Those later phases are rarely the simplest. Once the main public-facing elements of a regeneration scheme are in place, developers still have to keep capital moving, adapt later plots to changed market conditions, and deliver uses that support long-term occupation rather than one-off destination appeal. Battersea has already begun that transition, with the wider masterplan being adjusted to reflect changing demand for living, working, and leisure space across London.
The proposed mix in phase 3C reflects that shift. Senior living, community space, active commercial frontage, and additional cycling provision suggest a scheme shaped around daily use and neighbourhood continuity rather than volume alone. That is consistent with how major mixed-use developments in London are evolving. The commercial and residential equation has become tighter, and later phases are increasingly expected to show how a project will function over time, not simply how much floor area it can add.
For contractors, packages of this kind bring a different challenge from single-use developments on more straightforward sites. Delivery has to accommodate architectural complexity, live urban surroundings, and the sequencing demands of a scheme that is already substantially occupied and internationally visible. Programme certainty, logistics, and interface management become as important as the shell-and-core build itself.
If Sisk secures the contract, the project will underline the point that large-scale London regeneration remains active, but is moving ahead through more carefully balanced phases that combine housing, services, and public-facing infrastructure. Battersea is no longer at the stage where heritage restoration alone defines the story. The current phase is about how a major redevelopment settles into city life, and whether its remaining plots can sustain momentum under a more demanding set of market conditions.