Welcome

Everyone living in and around Nine Elms knows that the area is being transformed. Central to that regeneration is the New Covent Garden Market site.
In 2012, Covent Garden Market Authority (CGMA) secured outline planning permission to build a new combined flower and fruit & vegetable market and to fund that process by procuring a private development partner to develop the 20 acres of surplus land in return for building the new market. CGMA subsequently appointed VINCI St. Modwen (VSM) to deliver the entire scheme. This exhibition is about the progress achieved by VSM since contracts were signed with CGMA in January 2013. We would like to hear your views on the changes that are now being proposed for both the surplus land and the latest plans for the new market. These two elements will form the basis of a planning application to be made at the end of the year.

VSM is an established joint venture between St. Modwen, the UKs leading regeneration specialist and VINCI PLC. It was set up initially to deliver development for the Ministry of Defence. In 2012, VSM was appointed by CGMA as its development partner on the New Covent Garden Market scheme. A development agreement was signed in January 2013.

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Central to Nine Elms

Bisected by the railway and home to the nations largest wholesale flower and fruit & vegetable markets, the New Covent Garden Market site is the largest development in Nine Elms.

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ENTRANCE SITE

APEX SITE

MARKET SITE

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Home to over 200 businesses and employing 2,500 people, this is one of the largest employment sites in Wandsworth and is central to the wider regeneration of the area.

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ENTRANCE SITE

APEX SITE

MARKET SITE

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CGMA consented masterplan

The site

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Connections
The extension of the Northern Line from Kennington, with two new stations at Wandsworth Road and at Battersea opening in 2019, will transform Nine Elms.
The vast majority of people living and working on the New Covent Garden Market site will be within five minutes of a tube station and will be able to link easily into local rail and bus services. VSMs scheme is set to to improve pedestrian links across the site towards the river and under the railway lines that run into Vauxhall. The linear park that formed a central part of CGMAs permitted scheme will be retained and enhanced, forming a highly attractive, accessible and safe place to walk and cycle. You will be able to take the ten minute walk down the new Food Avenue running from Vauxhall to the new Garden Heart area where the Market will meet the public. This will be a food centre hub, a central London destination based on healthy living and an excellent standard of fresh produce. It will showcase the best quality produce and mix specialist food shops and restaurants with delicatessens, grocers and public markets. The proposed access points onto the road network follow those set by CGMA.
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Lambeth College

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Linear Park

Vehicles will be deterred from crossing the linear park. The car will be subservient and extensive pedestrian areas will be created. Care will be taken to preclude rat-running through the sites while access into the residential areas has been formalised.

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Development of market proposals

CGMA consented scheme

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VSM and CGMA have been working up detailed plans for the market in close conjunction with the traders.
As a result, several important amendments are being made to the permitted 2012 scheme to improve operational efficiency, traffic movement and health and safety: The fruit & vegetable market is being located further towards the west of the site releasing land next to the new Nine Elms tube station which is better suited for residential development. The market will now occupy three wider buildings, not the four originally proposed. The buyers walk and wholesalers will be in the centre of these three units, flanked by two buildings for caterers and distributors. Reflecting the CGMA consented scheme, the redesigned units are the same distance from the rear of the houses on Crimsworth Road. The market entrance has been moved into the site. Within the operational area of the new market, vehicle manoeuvring, parking and loading areas have been increased allowing produce to be transferred faster and more safely. The flower market will occupy the building to the east sitting immediately adjacent to the Garden Heart, which forms the core of the new market scheme. The Garden Heart which fronts a new plaza to showcase the best of what New Covent Garden Market sells, has now been reconfigured. It is the same size as before but is now closer to the flower market, allowing facilities and parking to be shared more effectively. The next board shows these changes in more detail.

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The New Market

Car Park Waste Compound Market Entrance

Distribution Traders

Wholesale Traders

Distribution Traders

Flower Market
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Garden Heart

Forklift Route

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Vehicle wash

The Market Masterplan

Fruit & vegetable wholesalers in one central block Larger hardstandings, more loading and unloading area, improved workplace transport Covered loading area next to wholesalers Relocated and improved entrance Integrated Flower Market and Garden Heart Reduction from four to three traders blocks but same lettable area

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The Thessaly Road Site

People living along Thessaly Road are only shielded from the noise and early morning disturbance of the market by an unsightly wall.

Thessaly Road Existing

Thessaly Road Proposed

The permitted CGMA scheme was designed to reduce this disturbance and complete the street by building flats on the market side of the road that would rise between six and eight storeys in height. The principles of completing the street and providing a barrier to shield existing residents from noise and disturbance have been carried over into the VSM proposals. The new market buildings are no nearer to existing residents than now and we have reduced significantly the scale of the new homes on Thessaly Road that were proposed by CGMA. We now propose a more traditional terrace of two and three storey family homes with gardens.
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Living/Dining Room Kitchen

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The Apex Site

CGMA consented scheme

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A sequence of courts and squares that are linked together. A variety of urban plazas and quiet communal gardens.

The triangular site to the north of the market is now larger than CGMA envisaged as the market has been moved to the west.
VSM envisages a succession of pedestrianised public spaces and squares flanked by new buildings. The most important of these will be the large open space fronting onto the Garden Heart building to be used for a public market. The area has been redesigned to provide important new links towards the river from the residential areas immediately to the south and east and from the new Nine Elms tube station. Since CGMAs initial scheme was permitted, Wandsworth Council has also granted planning permission for a scheme put forward by Sainsburys, immediately to the north east of the Apex site, which includes a 37 storey tower. VSM has responded to this. We now propose a tall building closest to the Sainsburys tower with heights falling away towards the Garden Heart. The ground floors here will be mostly given over to shops, cafs and restaurants, creating a lively and exciting quarter for London. The rest of the development will be residential-led with some social housing.

Public places and squares

Design concept

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The Northern Site

In response to what has been happening on surrounding developments the Northern site has been redesigned significantly.
Sainsburys will now be rebuilding its Nine Elms food store and there are two new consented stores in the vicinity. Therefore, VSM is no longer proposing the supermarket which gained planning consent as part of the CGMA scheme. The recent planning permission for the 200m One Nine Elms building (also known as Market Towers), immediately to the north east, and the Councils desire to see a cluster of tall buildings in this area has led VSM to reconsider the height of buildings here. Our scheme now responds by proposing three taller buildings marking the eastern entrance to the linear park the tallest of which will be lower than both One Nine Elms and St Georges Tower. These changes mean that buildings on the site can now occupy a smaller footprint than originally proposed by CGMA. This allows VSM to introduce more green and open, communal, space around the linear park, including a childrens play area. This area continues to be a predominantly residential quarter with shops, offices and a GPs surgery at ground floor level. VSM has submitted a separate application for an access onto Wandsworth Road which will serve the Northern and Apex sites and provide a secondary access to the US Embassy.

CGMA consented scheme

VSM emerging masterplan

Design concept

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The Entrance Site

CGMA consented scheme

VSM emerging masterplan

The Entrance site too has seen significant amendments to the CGMA scheme.
In the permitted scheme the main vehicular access gates for market users were located here. These have now been relocated into the market itself, allowing us to reduce the scale of the road and to enhance the linear park for pedestrians and cyclists. The entrance to the linear park from Nine Elms Lane has been strengthened further by moving a residential building to the most northern point of the site. The architects have also redesigned the residential blocks on the site to minimise the number that front onto the entrance road. This area will continue to be predominantly residential. Shops and cafes will front the ground floors on the parts of the site looking over Nine Elms Lane and the linear park.

Design concept

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Building Heights

One Nine Elms Vauxhall Sky Gardens Vauxhall Square Vauxhall Cross The Tower, One St. George Wharf Sainsburys Redevelopment

View Hungerford Foot Bridge (LVMF 17.A2) - Proposed VSM scheme shaded blue

The heights of the buildings proposed across the site continue to reflect guidance in local and GLA planning policy. Most of them are in the low-rise to mid-rise category.
Some higher buildings are proposed on the Northern and Apex sites, respecting the guidance of the planning authority and the GLA. On the Northern site we will build lower than the high point set by the permitted Market Towers building and St Georges Tower. Building heights will fall away across this site towards Ballymores Embassy Gardens development. The same principle has been adopted on the Apex site where the highest building will be lower than that permitted on the adjacent Sainsburys site and fall away towards the Garden Heart. Great care has been taken to ensure that we respect the guidance on the long range protected views across London and, in particular, that we do not compromise the protected views of the Palace of Westminster.

Building heights diagram

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Thank you

New Market Indicative image

Thank you for attending our exhibition today. We hope you agree with us that the revised scheme will contribute to the transformation of the Nine Elms area that is already underway.
Please leave your feedback form in the ballot box at the exhibition or return it to the freepost address on the form. This will be considered as the proposals develop. We will be consulting again on the emerging proposals in the autumn. Should you require further information or have any questions then please contact the Freephone Community line on 0800 0192054 or email us at info@vsm-ncgm.co.uk. You can also visit our website at www.vsm-ncgm.co.uk.

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