Ballymore has submitted a planning application for a 15-acre redevelopment around the new US Embassy in Nine Elms, south London.
The Embassy Gardens proposals would create a new neighbourhood of up to 2,000 homes and more than 500,000 sq ft of offices and flexible workspace next door to the five-acre site sold by the Irish developer to the US Embassy in 2009.
The plans include a 100-bed hotel and 130,000 sq ft of shops, bar and restaurant space, including a new grocery store and other uses to support the 1,800 people who will be working and visiting the embassy every day.
Ballymore hopes to receive planning permission in the autumn and will be marketing the scheme in early 2012. The US Embassy will move to the former industrial site – part of the Vauxhall, Nine Elms, Battersea Opportunity Area – in 2016.
Sean Mulryan, chairman and managing director of The Ballymore Group, said “The location of Nine Elms and our development Embassy Gardens on the south banks of the Thames, looking across to Chelsea, will be a prime central London location and I have made sure that all of Ballymore’s 30 years’ experience of creative design and attention to detail is embued in these plans.”
The Embassy Gardens proposals consist of nine construction plots, with individual buildings rising up to 23 storeys, arranged around a new park and garden space and a formal embassy plaza.
Sir Terry Farrell is leading the masterplanning exercise and three architectural practices – Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Fielden Clegg Bradley and FLACQ – have carried out the detailed design work for the first phase of Embassy Gardens.
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