At phase one consultation, Tideway Walk was our preferred site to construct the main tunnel and to intercept the two local CSOs (Heathwall Pumping Station CSO and South West Storm Relief CSO). This site would have received the main tunnel from Barn Elms and been used to drive the main tunnel to King’s Stairs Gardens.
Since then, the Tideway Walk site has been granted planning permission and work has started on a new residential development. This means that the site is no longer available to the project.
At phase two consultation we are now proposing to use a site at Kirtling Street, which is located to the west of the Tideway Walk site. We propose to use the site as a double drive site. This means we would drive one section of the main tunnel westward to Carnwath Road Riverside and drive another section of the tunnel eastward to Chambers Wharf. We would also need to accommodate permanent structures required to operate the main tunnel at the site.
The location of the site is shown below. It extends into the foreshore of the River Thames together with land occupied by industrial warehousing, a depot, a concrete batching works, former petrol filling station and office buildings. Kirtling Street and Cringle Street run through and around the site. The new residential development (Riverlight) on the former Tideway Industrial Estate and our existing Heathwall Pumping Station are situated to the east of the site, with the River Thames located to the north and Battersea Power Station to the west. Battersea Park Road/Nine Elms Lane (A3205) is to the south of the site. Two boat communities are located to the east of the site. These are the Nine Elms Pier community (around Nine Elms Pier) and Tideway Village in Tideway Dock.
Kirtling Street with Cringle Street is our preferred site because it is brownfield land in a mainly industrial area and has more space to accommodate tunnelling activities associated with a main tunnel double drive site. Including the land at Cringle Street means that there is more river frontage. This would provide better arrangements for jetties and barges and may result in less impact on the nearby houseboats. There is also good vehicular access directly from Nine Elms Lane (A3205) and unlike a number of the shortlisted sites, using this site would avoid needing to cross Nine Elms Lane (A3205) in to access the River Thames to transport excavated material by barge. The site would not affect the early stages of the Battersea Power Station redevelopment.
For more detailed information on our proposals for the Kirtling Street site, please see our site information paper below:
