English Heritage has pledged support for the £5.5bn redevelopment of Battersea Power Station in London.

The heritage watchdog wrote a letter to Wandsworth council, which is processing  the application for the scheme, saying it had “no objections in principle to redevelopment of the site for the uses proposed.”

Irish developer Treasury Holdings would redevelop the area around the grade II listed Battersea Power Station under the mixed-use scheme.

However, the letter says English Heritage has some concerns over the “scale and density of the proposed new development”, which “risks causing harm to the setting and views of the power station”.

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