Barr Gazetas has won planning permission to redevelop two landmark Victorian industrial buildings in Battersea, creating an office-led scheme that will serve as a “gateway” for the area’s planned design and technology quarter.

The practice’s proposals for Nuveen Real Estate will remove 1980s additions from the buildings at 220 Queenstown Road, which was originally a factory manufacturing caps for the British Army, and create a new core to link the locally-listed structures.

Following the removal of a single-storey roof extension, a new two-storey stepped roof extension will be added that will include a roof terrace for the site, which is immediately adjacent to the main railway line serving London’s Waterloo Station.

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