Lots Road Power Station London 2009 to 2024. Redevelopment as Powerhouse residential accommodation

Conversion of the disused Lots Road Power Station, previously used by London Underground and its predecessors to generate electricity into the Powerhouse residential development, 2009 to 2024.
Also pictures of local area including shop and Thames Water site and Tideway.
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Lots Road Power Station has now been renamed Powerhouse to reflect its redevelopment. It is located on Lots Road and also faces the River Thames seen here on an up to date google map. It is at the edge of the Royal London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and it became operational as a power station in 1905. It was built to provide electricity to power parts of the London Underground.
Location shown on a 1919 Railways map .
For reference there used to be several power stations along the River Thames , but this one was different being constructed to specifically supply power for the underground trains.
What is interesting is that along with Lots Road, a couple of other power stations have also been repurposed. We have Battersea just up the river which is now a shopping and mixed use site.
Then further along the south bank there is Tate Modern which used to be Bankside Power Station. That was converted into an Art Gallery for a Millennium opening in 2000.
Not all have survived including Deptford which I photographed shortly before it was demolished in the early 1990s.
If you are interested I have done videos on Battersea, Tate Modern Modern and Deptford links at the end
Lots Road Power Station has been upgraded several times over its life being converted from different fuels- coal, then to oil and then to gas and during these renovations it also managed to lose 2 of its chimneys. Here are a couple of old photos showing it with all 4 chimneys sourced from Pinterest. As you can see it does look really quite different.
The power station was finally decommissioned in 2002 with the London Underground then relying on, as it does now, the National Grid for all of its power.
It took a long time to get the redevelopment underway, I took the first pictures in 2009, yet if we look again 9 years later in 2018, the derelict end still looks pretty much the same. However this is it in 2024
Looking down Lots Road in 2024 it does look like the building is nearing completion.
The old power station forms part of a large mainly residential scheme which also includes 2 tower blocks.
sources:
National Library of Scotland website - maps
Pinterest website

[@ianbarker2420]

Thanks for this as I lived in Tadema Rd from the late 50s then into Stadium Rd for a couple of years. Primary school was Ashburnham Rd all off Lots Rd..played in bombed out warehouses fished in the creek and had a fight in is with some lads that had walked across the rail bridge from Battersea 😂 also played on sunken boats on the Thames where the embankment turned up towards the Kings Rd.
Fantastic childhood 👍

[@martydavies6760]

I was on the lots road site april to August 2022 renewing tge chimneys. Great project. It looks fantastic now. I will have to have a look next time in London.

[@ninfilms]

Great to see photo of history.

[@jackullla87]

Great to see it comming to an end. I have been working there for 2 years as a technical manager for basements contruction. I have for plenty of photos from the inside.

[@jaroslavmaly3333]

and what FULHAM POWER STATION