Venues in Battersea
Battersea has been rebuilt around the Power Station — turbine halls, control rooms and riverside terraces at a scale central London cannot offer.
Park Hyatt London River Thames
Battersea — Hotel
Up to 830 guests
Park Hyatt's UK debut in a 42-storey Nine Elms tower, with one of central London's largest ballrooms and four in-house restaurants and bars over the Thames.
Battersea Power Station
Battersea — Event Space
Up to 250 guests
The Power Station's two restored control rooms, hired as private event space: Control Room A, the 1930s Art Deco room in Turbine Hall A, and Control Room B, the 1950s room turned cocktail bar above Turbine Hall B.
Fiume
Battersea — Italian Restaurant
Up to 160 guests
Francesco Mazzei's riverside Italian at Battersea Power Station, with a Thames-facing dining room, an elm bar and a piazza-style terrace available for private hire.
/ About Battersea▾
Battersea occupies the south bank of the Thames opposite Chelsea, on ground reclaimed from the marshy Battersea Fields — once given over to market gardens and, before that, notorious for duelling. Its landmark is Battersea Power Station, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott from 1929 and built in two stages through the 1930s and 1950s. The Grade II* listed brick building, with its four white chimneys, was decommissioned in 1975, stood derelict for decades, and reopened in October 2022 as a mixed-use quarter of shops, restaurants, offices and event spaces.
That redevelopment has given Battersea a new set of spaces alongside its older ones — the turbine halls and riverside terraces of the power station, the event rooms within it, and the Victorian expanse of Battersea Park. The park opened in 1858, laid out on the reclaimed fields and formally opened by Queen Victoria; along its riverside stands the London Peace Pagoda, a Buddhist stupa given by the Nipponzan-Myohoji order and completed in 1985. Together they anchor much of the area’s public and private gathering.
Dining clusters around the power station’s arcades and the streets of Battersea and Nine Elms, with the park’s cafés and the riverside walk adding an outdoor dimension along the Thames. Access changed sharply in September 2021, when the Northern line extension opened two new stations — Battersea Power Station and Nine Elms — branching from Kennington and placing the area minutes from the City and the West End; Clapham Junction, one of the country’s busiest rail interchanges, lies to the south. The river frontage remains its defining edge.