Battersea Power Station Mall (London, UK) : Retail Bliss or Future Dead Mall?
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- Battersea Power Station opened as a mall in 2022, after sitting empty and derelict for three decades. "A place to shop, eat, drink, live, work, and play." At least that's what the project's tagline says...
But is Battersea Power Station worth visiting? Let's find out.
SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL ✅
► Patreon: / deadmallwalking (monthly)
► PayPal: www.paypal.com... (one-time)
► TH-cam Membership: / @deadmallwalking (monthly)
► Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/dead... (one-time)
That marketing spiel concludes that "here life doesn't feel ordinary, it feels extraordinary." In this walking tour, we'll check out some of the 140+ bars, restaurants, and shops that now occupy this former industrial site.
We also explore whether London really needed another new neighbourhood for the super-rich, complete with private security, or whether this buzzing (sorry...) spot is a viable third space for ordinary Londoners.
CURRENT GEAR 🎥
► Camera: amzn.to/3OKwptX
► iPhone 14 Pro (B-Roll): www.apple.com/...
► Laptop: amzn.to/3OmO75v
► SD Cards: amzn.to/3qn5Ly2
► Drone (used sparingly): amzn.to/44VxHIn
► Hard Drives: amzn.to/43XKhFI
► Backup Camera: amzn.to/3OKCKpc
► Power Bank: amzn.to/3Qu5nsj
PREVIOUS GEAR 🎥
► GoPro: amzn.to/3Oma30F
► Backup Camera: amzn.to/43YkKMw
► USB-C Hub: amzn.to/47oyjro
NOTE 📝
This description contains affiliate links to products I believe my audience may find useful. Any purchase made through an affiliate link gives me a small percentage of the sale, which helps to support the channel directly at no extra cost to you!
FOLLOW ME 📸
► Instagram - / deadmallwalking
► Subscribe for more! - www.youtube.co...
► Substack - malltalk.substa...
Intro: Jingle Punks - All This Down Time (pitched down)
Music:
Notorious Secret - Everything
Notorious Secret - Walls
Notorious Secret - Along The Way
Notorious Secret - Never Let You Go
Courtesy of Secrets of the Night (notorioussecre...)
#deadmall #deadmalls #deadmallseries
As a first time visitor to your channel, I look forward to exploring it because your presentation was refreshingly informative and resisted the temptation to concentrate on the commercially disastrous low footfall evident in every shot.
Having grown up with the massive presence of the building a constant in my life, I have to face up to the fact that what's been done is probably the best solution of a bad bunch.
No more urbex scrambling over rusting motors and through pipes the size of waterslides, all the while hoping that those pigeons above don't have us in mind for target practise!
A good example of the listed status laws of the land being strong enough to keep the drive of developers to flatten as much as possible to squeeze in the maximum retail floorspace within check. Inside at least.
Outside, well that's a different matter and nothing short of a total capitulation.
I know that we're told that we need more houses and ~ putting aside the price of most of these for a mo ~ I can't think of anywhere else where so many have been squashed in to an area.
The new shoebox flats show absolutely no respect for the power station and give the impression that if they could, they would drown it in a tsunami of their generic concrete and brick-effect ubiquity.
I work for one of the contractors of BPS. In my opinion it's the best development in London right now both in entertainment and luxury apartments. It is worth a visit but the food in the Arcade is not very good and they have literal box room studio apartments starting at like 4k a month.
This is where I'm torn, I think it looks fantastic. But then I think about the state of the economy, all the London born residents being priced out of the city entirely - even the shit parts and the housing crisis and I just think "What a waste of land that we really don't have to spare"
It's like Bicester Village. They aren't interested in attracting locals, except as a source of minimum wage labour. They want affluent tourists, especially millennials from China.
Yeah Bicester village looks like a more up market version of Braintree village, I don't really like them kind of places they're like a fake town centre so the shops can pay lower rent than actually in the town centre.
idk any normal person irl that’s visited this place more than once. as soon as the novelty wears off, ppl are just left looking around at all the stuff they can’t afford, and leave to walk past flats they can’t afford either. luvly vid as always
Thank you! Def feels like a novelty to me although, by all accounts, it’s seen a LOT of foot traffic since it opened. Guess time will tell…
You are in the wrong circles then.
Tories can afford to shop there
@@minixtvbox After they robbed the country blind. Nuance is important.
Bro this mall looks fantastic. You did an excellent job documenting it also! Great video. I totally get it being a novelty as it is so high end, but I find myself visiting King of Prussia several times a year despite not purchasing anything outside the Sears end food court lol. It's still fun to gawk at the architecture and appreciate the history. Thanks for the experience!
I went here around a year ago, I never even knew it was a mall I just remember hearing Battersea power station as the last stop on the tube and wondered what it was, when I got there was amazed at the sheer size of the place its an incredible building in itself. When I was wandering around the inside most of the shops I had zero interest in or couldn't afford but was more interested in the building itself, and its cool they've left parts of the power station around with an info board to look at. I ended up getting a drink from one of the expensive cafes and got a t shirt from Uniqlo at tge end of the mall which is about the only clothes shop thats not super luxury I could find. I'm glad they restored it though and i think its been done quite tastefully.
I’ve never actually been to Battersea despite being a pink Floyd fan, only seen it from far away, I actually accidentally came across the “echoes” filming location in italy though that was very cool!
Hope this mall can succeed! I feel it might be optimistic for a pension organisation thinking long term to fund this…
Great vid! Will visit it to see it for myself one day!
Oh nice! Honestly, very much recommended. Particularly fun to see where to PF pig broke loose from its moorings, haha. Next time I plan to go up the chimney you can go inside, which I didn’t have a chance to do last time!
I still have not been there, I keep meaning to check it out just to see the inside of that building, but even for me as a Londoner its a bit convoluted to get to via public transport, the whole battersea/putney bridge area has always been a pain in the arse to get to on public transport, hence why I hardly ever go there, I think I've been to battersea park like twice in 40 years. what is the "affordable" housing anyway last I heard Khan thought £500 a week was affordable.
It's beautiful of course. But not very busy at all. Will it last?
Great vid . Typical london thinking about the rich as normal .
Thanks Mark! Yeah, that’s one of the things about the city that I don’t miss since leaving it, haha.
I really liked this video. Interesting info for something I could visit (though most likely wouldn't, the taint of money and social cleansing would probably repel me), and a bit political, because everything is political. And I still enjoy the variety of content you put out. The length of your videos is usually perfect too.
building looks amazing but the shopping centre idea doesnt really do it justice. Batterseas well out of the way except for die hard tourists
love it
🥰🥰🥰
It's very busy, and the tenants must be happy because they're making a lot of money. In America, shopping malls are outdated and seem destined to become extinct like the dinosaurs, but that doesn't seem to be the case in London.
It's in London.
I'm sure plenty of overseas investors will continue to throw money at it.
Just because, well, it's in London 🙄
I have been there once, there is absolutely nothing there I would go back for. It’s all just expensive shop watches. Why on earth someone would open a mall in 2022 is beyond me, what a bad idea.
its london, rich people everywhere there.
tory elites
It could have been a football stadium for Chelsea Football Club with restaurants and shops... The current Stamford Bridge could have then been replaced by residential property.
Absolute fail.
Yes the artist impressions looked brilliant including a huge sloping terrace similar to Dortmund's Westphalia. CFC definitely missed out there.
I have always loved Battersea Power Station through the Pink Floyd connection. However ironically when I visited it seemed to be exactly what Roger Waters was kicking against. A truly depressing place.
great script!
Looks like a dystopian dump. You may have caught it at a suboptimal day/time, but still looks totally unappealing.
What specifically do you find unappealing about the architecture?
Aside from a mall being inserted into it's frame. The concept of the space def feels dystopian-agreed.