Approval given for new tube station at Battersea

Plans for one of the two new tube stations on the Northern line extension have been approved.

Wandsworth Council’s planning committee has voted to green-light the construction of the new tube station at Battersea Power Station, which is scheduled to open to passengers in 2020.

Designed by Grimshaw and Partners, it will open onto Battersea Park Road and will serve existing local communities as well as those working and living at the new developments in Nine Elms.

It will be the first of two station entrances for this stop at Battersea, with a western entrance also to be provided at the southern end of the new High Street that is earmarked within the power station site. A tunnel under Battersea Park Road will also link the new tube station directly to Stewarts Road.

When services start it will be Wandsworth Council’s first new tube station to open for 95 years (the previous ones being Clapham South Balham and the Tootings).

Battersea Station under construction

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4 comments

1. Roy says:

   22 December 2017 at 11:10 pm

   I see the artist’s impression says “Battersea Station”. I thought it was going to be “Battersea Power Station Station”.

2. Sam says:

   23 December 2017 at 8:34 pm

   Let’s hope they don’t have the same problems as the Metropolitan Line Extension.

3. Andrew Gwilt says:

   24 December 2017 at 12:08 am

   So the Northern Line will only extend to Battersea but there were plans to extend the Northern Line to Clapham Junction so that you can interchange from Northern Line to National Rail and London Overground services. Plus the Northern Line could become just one tube line running between Battersea to Edgware via Kennington, Charing Cross, Tottenham Court Road and Camden Town and the new Line possibly called Angel & City Line could take over between Morden and High Barnet and Mill Hill East via Bank, Angel, Kings Cross St. Pancras and Camden Town.

4. Anonymous Widower says:

   24 December 2017 at 6:36 am

   Sime commentators have proposed that as the Western end of the new station is close to the Listed Battersea Park Road station, that an easy walking route should be provided.

   One in Modern Railways aglso proposed that platforms be built on the South Eastern lines out of Victoria, so that passengers could interchange there and take the pressure away from Victoria.

   I will be interested to see, what is finally built at the Western end of the station