Property developers Delancey and Land Securities have revealed designs for a £400m redevelopment of London’s Clapham Junction, known as the busiest railway station in Britain.

The 1.6 hectare mixed-use scheme would include two landmark 127-metre high tower blocks, a two-level shopping street, 500 homes and the station will also benefit from a revamp.

Architect Collado Collins has drawn up designs for the project, which would be delivered by the Metro Shopping Fund joint venture between Delancey and Land Securities.

A roof garden on top of restaurants and cafes is also part of the scheme, which will be easily accessible from the new residential units. The Metro Shopping Fund will be consulting on its plans later this month and aims to submit a planning application to the London Borough of Wandsworth in the spring.

However, experts believe that the plans are likely to meet similar objections to those that greeted a scheme submitted in October for two residential towers on the site of the Young’s Ram Brewery, also in Wandsworth. Developer Minerva, which bought the brewery site for £69m last August, wanted to build two residential towers of 39 and 29 storeys as well as shops, restaurants and riverside cafés but critics, including the Wandsworth Society, objected to the location and the scale of the buildings.
Last summer, plans for a 17-storey building near Sidcup station were rejected by Bexley council. Tower plans are also being fought in Ealing, Lewisham and Elephant and Castle.