Lots Road Power Station

Lots Road Power Station is a disused gas- and oil-fired power station (originally coal) on the River Thames at Lots Road in Chelsea, London in the south-west of the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, which supplied electricity to the London Underground system.

The station was built end-on to the Thames, on the north bank of the tidal Chelsea Creek.

[5] In July 1992,[6] it was decided not to re-equip Lots Road again; rather it was to continue to operate only until the machinery's life was expired.

On 21 October 2002, Transport Minister John Spellar switched off the turbines, ending 97 years of electricity generation.

[7] Circadian wished to convert the power station into shops, restaurants and apartments, and to construct additional buildings, including two skyscrapers, on the adjoining vacant land.

One of the preferred accesses, Cremorne Wharf Foreshore, adjoins but which will end a nearby combined sewer overflow.

[14] On 26 September 2013, developer Hutchison Whampoa Properties broke ground on the eight-acre site, rebranding it as "Chelsea Waterfront", with Mayor of London Boris Johnson speaking at the ceremony: "The £1 billion scheme will be the biggest riverside development on the north bank [of the Thames] for over 100 years, and will create 706 homes.

Lots Road Power station in a poster from 1910
Lots Road Power Station by Herbert C. Rose (1890–1937) . Oil on canvas. Adnan Ege Kutay Collection, USA.