Northern line extension to Battersea

If the extension is built, a redeveloped Battersea Power Station will be the new terminus for "via Charing Cross" trains

Possible site of Nine Elms station, currently a car park

The Northern line extension to Battersea is a proposed extension of the London Underground Northern line to Battersea in South West London, initially to Battersea Power Station from Kennington and then, possibly, on to Clapham Junction. The extension will form a continuation of the Charing Cross branch of the line.

The extension is a privately-funded project by the site developers, Treasury Holdings, with contributions from other sources such as the new US embassy. The plan has been given planning permission and could be open by 2015.^[1] Battersea will be the new southern terminus, extending the line from Kennington with a new station at Nine Elms on Wandsworth Road.^[2][3] It would be in Travelcard Zone 2.

Nine Elms tube station^[2] could be placed by the junction of Wandsworth Road and Wilcox Road, at a site currently used as a car park for the Nine Elms branch of Sainsburys.^[4] However, a May 2010 consultation put forward four proposals (two slightly different locations for Nine Elms, an interchange at Vauxhall station (for the Victoria line) instead, and a direct link with no intermediate station.)^[5] In addition to serving the mostly residential communities, Nine Elms station would also provide improved access for the nearby New Covent Garden Market and the proposed new Embassy of the United States in London.^[6]

How the proposed extension of the Northern line could appear on the tube map once the line has been split into two different operational lines.

Major landowners and council leaders in London's Nine Elms area said in November 2010 that the extension could be funded largely from developer contributions and would provide an economic windfall for the entire Nine Elms regeneration area. At the inaugural meeting of the Nine Elms and Vauxhall Strategy Board, members were told that a study commissioned by the Greater London Authority (GLA) had put the total cost for new link at £560 million.^[7]

On 11 November 2010, Wandsworth Council granted planning permission for an 8m sqft development of the Battersea Power Station site. Although the plans included a two station extension of the Northern Line from Kennington (with one of two new tube stations located at the Power Station site and the other at Wandsworth Road), the actual Tube extension will be the subject of a separate Transport & Works Act Order (TWAO) application, expected to be submitted in 2012. The Battersea Power Station site planning permission was approved by the Mayor of London on 22 December 2010.^[1][8]

A consultation on route options was carried out in May/June 2011.^[9] In the light of the results, Transport for London has decided to develop Route 2, involving two new Tube stations, one at Nine Elms and one serving Battersea Power Station.^[10]

In November 2011, the extension was included in a group of infrastructure projects due to be backed by the Government although completed with private sector funding.^[11]

Should the plans for a redevelopment of Battersea Power Station go ahead, as a new stadium for Chelsea, then the extension would benefit travellers to the stadium, in an area already noticeably deprived of public transport. Because Chelsea have confirmed that they would be making "a significant contribution towards the Northern Line Extension".^{[citation needed]}

References

External links

• "Northern line extension". Transport for London. No date. http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/projectsandschemes/21614.aspx. Retrieved 22 April 2012. 
• "Battersea Power Station Tour & Tube Plans". London Underground Tube Diary (blog). 5 July 2008.

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