The View: new high-rise flats overlooking Battersea Park come with a residents’ roof garden

Built on the site of a former school caretaker’s house, next to a new academy, the 15-storey tower overlooks 200-acre Battersea Park.
David Spittles12 November 2018

There is more to Battersea than the riverside district being built around the famous power station.

The wider area has Victorian terraces, Edwardian villas, factory lofts and parkside mansion flats.

On Shaftesbury Estate, near Lavender Hill, built in the 1870s as low-rent housing for the working classes, neat little terrace cottages now cost more than £1 million.

Sitting back from the river, the area’s original village is just discernible around pretty, cobbled Battersea Square, butting up against a mix of council estates and conservation areas.

The View: a new 15-storey tower on Culvert Road, Battersea

Here, too, is a Royal College of Art campus and a cluster of small businesses.

The View is a new high-rise scheme in Culvert Road.

Built on the site of a former school caretaker’s house, next to a new academy, the 15-storey tower has two levels of commercial space, above which are 39 tasteful flats, oriented towards 200-acre Battersea Park rather the train tracks to the rear.

Tiered penthouses have private terraces and there is a residents’ roof garden.

From £775,000. Penthouses from £1.45 million (020 7409 8756).