The Foster + Partners’ approved design includes a pair of slender residential towers of 28 and 38 storeys and a podium building of seven-storeys.

Giles Robinson, Senior Partner, Foster + Partners, said: “The scheme will provide the highest quality homes that overlook one of London’s most spectacular new public parks.

“Responding to St William’s brief and working closely with the landscape designers, Gillespies, our design complements the historic urban surroundings and enhances connections with nature, by significantly increasing the amount of green space at the base of the towers and extending the experience of the park onto the podium’s rooftop.”

Dean Summers, Managing Director, St William, added: “The vision for King’s Road Park is to transform a redundant gasworks into a sustainable and welcoming neighbourhood, including a beautiful park and around 1,800 private and affordable homes.

“This is brownfield regeneration at its best and we’re delighted to have been granted planning consent for this important part of the masterplan.”

The two residential towers and podium are located on the eastern side of the masterplan. New homes face onto the park, which is located at the centre of the wider development and features a restored Grade II listed gasholder.

Foster + Partners’ phase four design reworks a previously submitted outline scheme, removing one tower and increasing the size of the floorplates in the two remaining buildings. The design has increased the size of the public park by almost 5,000 square feet and improves connectivity between King’s Road and Imperial Wharf Station.

The wider King’s Road Park neighbourhood is being created by St Willliam from a redundant 16-acre gasworks within the Fulham Riverside Regeneration Area.

Once all phases are complete, this new community will include around 1,800 homes, six-acres of public parks and open space and around 100,000 sq ft of new commercial uses.

A section 106 legal agreement has been finalised for the 2.2-acre brownfield site, which will be transformed into a 245 home mixed-tenure neighbourhood close to West Ham and Stratford Stations.

The development will now need Gateway 2 approval from the Building Safety Regulator before St William can start on site. 

Building envelopes feature a mix of handmade bricks and façade detailing which alludes to Victorian industrial heritage and the Grade II Listed Bazalgette-designed homes near the site’s southern edge.

Late last year Berkeley Group outlined its new investment strategy, including the ambition to put more sites through planning and into delivery, in response to the Government’s pro-homebuilding agenda.

Dean Summers, managing director of St William, said: “We need to make full use of London’s brownfield sites, and I want to commend the teams at LLDC and the London Borough of Newham for helping us to finalise the section 106 agreement within just five weeks of the planning committee’s approval.”

Designed in partnership with Cowen + Partners and LDA Design, St William’s proposals also include investments in the wider neighbourhood.

The design responds to the nearby Grade II* Listed Abbey Mills Pumping Station and a group of Grade II Listed mid-19^th Century houses, both designed by Sir Joseph Bazalgette.

It is the third incarnation of plans for the 36-46 Albert Embankment site in Vauxhall, which received planning for a 900-bed hotel across similar proposed towers two years ago.

Before this plan, the site occupied by a Jet petrol station and owned by engineering firm Hotchkiss, had started out in the early 2000s as a planned flats scheme.

Under the new plan drawn up by architect Hopkins Architects for student developer Urbanest, the scale and appearance of the scheme will be similar to the second hotel plan.

The building heights are staying the same at 29 and 26 storeys with very minor changes to the overall massing to accommodate the change in use from a hotel to a purpose built student accommodation development.

Urbanest has struck a deal with University College London to take a large number of the rooms and aims to start work on the project by January 2026.

The scheme aims to achieve Passivhaus certification, become Net Zero in operation, target a BREEAM rating of Outstanding.