"Chelsea Harbour" stands on land that was once the 28-acre estate of Sandford Manor House. Among other occupants, it is reputed to have been the residence of Nell Gwyn.[3] At the start of the 19th-century, it was in decline and was bought by a gas company.[4] Part of the land was used as a Victorian-era railway coaling dock on the River Thames. Latterly it had been a coal yard for predecessor companies of British Rail. The 20-acre site lies in a triangle bounded by the Thames and Counter's Creek to the south and east, and to the west by the West London Line (Overground Network and National Rail) on a viaduct. At the inception of the redevelopment, the Conservative-led Hammersmith and Fulham Council, having granted planning permission, approached the Boundary Commission to have it re-designated as part of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The Commission reported in 1992 proposing a shift of boundary to the middle of the West London Line rail tracks. In the event, the Royal Borough passed on the offer of Chelsea Harbour in the then Leader's following terms: The Royal Borough has completed its submissions to the Boundaries Commission. No suggestion that we should take Chelsea Harbour into this authority was among them. That will remain our position. (Nicholas Freeman)[5]
Regeneration
Chelsea Harbour was designed by architects Moxley Jenner & Partners, developed by Mansford, with Bovis Homes Group serving as project management consultants.[6] It was the biggest single construction project in the United Kingdom for decades. The original design was for 16 buildings covering some 14 acres. Only 12 buildings were completed due to a downturn in the UK economy during the construction period.
Remediation
The Belvedere Tower and Marina
When planning permission was granted on 15 April 1986, the whole site, including the lock, was derelict. Both the Coal Dock and the lock had been infilled with contaminated materials, which had to be excavated and disposed of. The design required the contractor to reduce the size of the Dock by 1/3rd from the north end, to form the 75-berth Marina; and to re-construct the lock chamber, lock-gates, and cill. Work on-site began in early May 1986, and within twelve months the contractor had excavated the dock, constructed a new north wall, re-puddled the dock floor and renovated the lock. The site was equipped with 14 tower cranes, and had approximately 1500 personnel on-site during most of the build phase. In April 1987 a "commissioning Champagne Party" was held on two pontoons in the newly flooded "marina" for all the staff directly involved.
Lock, entrance into Chelsea Harbour
Achievements
Between April 1986 and April 1987, the construction team achieved the following:
2,000 piles had been sunk over 30 metres down to the London clay without problems, despite some being within two metres of both a London Underground main electrical supply cable and of a huge Victorian-built storm sewer.
250,000 cu. Metres of earth had been excavated and removed from the site;
55 acres of floor space were built, using 70,000 cubic metres of concrete and 8,000 tons of steel; one continuous concrete pour on Chelsea Garden Market's foundations totalled over 400 cu. Metres, with mixer trucks queueing-up for several hundred yards along Townmead Road. To ensure an uninterrupted cement supply for the concrete, 5,000 tons of cement were stockpiled in a hulk moored in the London Docks; and a concrete supply company was bought outright, to devote priority of supply to the project:
the reinforced structural concrete frame of "Chelsea Crescent" (which contained 64 apartments as originally designed) was built in just eight weeks;
three new bridges had been completed on-site, including the largest "thrust bore"[7] tunnel in Europe (over Townmead Road), which was hydraulically jacked into position under an operating rail line in a single weekend;
two buildings had been completed to "shell & core" status, and the interior spaces were already being occupied by the contractors of incoming tenants;
a further eight buildings were under construction including "Chambers" and "Chelsea Garden Market";
The 18-storey "Belvedere" tower was "topped-out" within six months of the start of work. The constructors managed to pour a new floor every four days, with pre-fabricated sub-sections of Rebar built on the ground using "go; no-go"Jigs, using a quick-curing high-strength concrete. Flat soffits with no "downstand beams", and pre-fabricated, steel, wheeled jack-up Forms were placed-, removed-, and re-positioned by the building's tower crane (with the aid of temporary-support platforms cantilevered off the side of the structure), erected in what would become one of the Belvedere's lift shafts.
Construction work against Chelsea Harbour backdrop
Contracts
All the buildings – save for the hotel – were built as "shell & core" contracts, with tenants leasing their spaces from Chelsea Harbour Ltd. through their letting agents. Once each building was wind and weather-tight, and connected to the external services, tenants commissioned their own contractors for the internal finishings. Bovis project-managed the construction of the hotel from piling-level to roadway-level, and the remainder of the structure above-ground was completed by a client who had concluded a long lease with Chelsea Harbour Ltd. The civil and structural engineers for the project were Clarke Nicholls and Marcel of Hammersmith, London W6.
Marketing
Harrods Estates were asked to manage the residential aspects such as the sale and letting of properties. The 310 apartments were marketed with prices starting at around £2 million per property. The 261,000 sq ft of land has 24-hour security patrols, and residents have 24-hour porterage.[8]
Marina
Chelsea Harbour Pier
The marina itself is not used commercially but accommodates luxury yachts and speedboats, and can be accessed from the Thames at high tide. The lock accessibility was indicated by a huge hollow sphere rising-&-dropping on a mast topping The "Belvedere", visible for a long way both upstream and down, and connected to a tide gauge by the lock gate giving into the Thames.
The Chelsea Harbour Design Centre is home to over 70 showrooms, occupying nearly 66,000 sq ft gross internal space topped by three large glazed domes over a galleria. The offices are in two buildings known as "Harbour Yard" and "The Design Centre East".[11]
Notable residents
Chelsea Harbour is off the Lots and Townmead roads and has been home to some notable past and contemporary residents who have included:
Chelsea Harbour against Lots Road Power Station, beyond the creek
A neighbouring, large-scale development called, "Chelsea Waterfront", planned by Terry Farrell is under way on the site of Lots Road power station.
John Roque's 1746 Map
The extract below of John Rocque's Map of London, 1746 shows Fulham in the loop of the Thames, with Counter's Creek distinctly visible to the left, just below the 'elbow' in the river. Sands End and the future Chelsea Harbour area lies immediately to the left of the mouth of the tributary, which is called 'Chelsea Creek' at this juncture.[17]
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References and notes
^Barton, Nicholas (1992). The Lost Rivers of London. London: Historical Publications. p. 71. ISBN0-948667-15-X.
^"Chelsea Harbour". Chelsea Harbour. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
^"Sands End - Hidden London". hidden-london.com. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
^Denny, Barbara (1997). Fulham Past. London: Historical Publications. p. 82. ISBN0-948667-43-5.
^. Chelseaharbourliving.co.uk. 15 April 1986. Archived from the original on 20 November 2015. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
^"Thrust Boring - Definition". Trenchlesspedia. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
^Simon Midgley (6 March 1994). "Eurotrains rumble Chelsea's rich calm | Home News". The Independent. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
^"Panorama of the Thames". wordpress.com. Retrieved 17 October 2016.[permanent dead link]
^"Boats from Chelsea Harbour Pier" (PDF). Transport for London. Spring 2009. Retrieved 29 September 2009.
^See Frost Meadowcroft and Edward Charles & Partners. Design Centre occupiers include: Hermès, Armani/Casa, Knoll (company), Ligne Roset.,. Frostmeadowcroft.com. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 30 November 2015.,. Dcch.co.uk. Archived from the original on 26 November 2015. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
^"William De Morgan and the Arts & Crafts Movement". Antique Marks. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
^ abcd"New neighbours for Harbour celebs". London Evening Standard. 5 April 2012. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
^. The Sunday Times. Archived from the original on 19 November 2015. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
^"The beautiful game". London Evening Standard. 5 April 2012. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
^"Antique Maps at the Map House of London". www.themaphouse.com. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
External links
London/Hammersmith and Fulham travel guide from Wikivoyage
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chelsea Harbour.
January 30, 2023
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Chelsea Harbour is a contemporary mixed use development in West London situated in its Sands End area along Chelsea Creek the historic southeastern boundary of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham with the southwestern boundary of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and opposite the site of the old Lots Road Power Station in Chelsea 1 The development consists of luxury apartments the Chelsea Harbour Marina and the Chelsea Harbour Design Centre and a hotel the Chelsea Harbour Hotel 2 Chelsea HarbourChelsea HarbourLocation within Greater LondonOS grid referenceTQ265765London boroughHammersmith amp FulhamCeremonial countyGreater LondonRegionLondonCountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townLONDONPostcode districtSW10Dialling code020PoliceMetropolitanFireLondonAmbulanceLondonLondon AssemblyWest CentralList of places UK England London 51 28 24 N 0 10 48 W 51 47333 N 0 18001 W 51 47333 0 18001 Coordinates 51 28 24 N 0 10 48 W 51 47333 N 0 18001 W 51 47333 0 18001Chelsea Creek in 2006 with outlook onto Fulham gas holders Contents 1 History 2 Regeneration 2 1 Remediation 2 2 Achievements 2 3 Contracts 2 4 Marketing 3 Marina 4 Imperial Wharf and transport 4 1 River bus services 5 Chelsea Design Centre 6 Notable residents 7 Lots Road power station 8 John Roque s 1746 Map 9 References and notes 10 External linksHistory Edit 1898 map showing Fulham Gas Works Chelsea Harbour stands on land that was once the 28 acre estate of Sandford Manor House Among other occupants it is reputed to have been the residence of Nell Gwyn 3 At the start of the 19th century it was in decline and was bought by a gas company 4 Part of the land was used as a Victorian era railway coaling dock on the River Thames Latterly it had been a coal yard for predecessor companies of British Rail The 20 acre site lies in a triangle bounded by the Thames and Counter s Creek to the south and east and to the west by the West London Line Overground Network and National Rail on a viaduct At the inception of the redevelopment the Conservative led Hammersmith and Fulham Council having granted planning permission approached the Boundary Commission to have it re designated as part of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea The Commission reported in 1992 proposing a shift of boundary to the middle of the West London Line rail tracks In the event the Royal Borough passed on the offer of Chelsea Harbour in the then Leader s following terms The Royal Borough has completed its submissions to the Boundaries Commission No suggestion that we should take Chelsea Harbour into this authority was among them That will remain our position Nicholas Freeman 5 Regeneration EditChelsea Harbour was designed by architects Moxley Jenner amp Partners developed by Mansford with Bovis Homes Group serving as project management consultants 6 It was the biggest single construction project in the United Kingdom for decades The original design was for 16 buildings covering some 14 acres Only 12 buildings were completed due to a downturn in the UK economy during the construction period Remediation Edit The Belvedere Tower and Marina When planning permission was granted on 15 April 1986 the whole site including the lock was derelict Both the Coal Dock and the lock had been infilled with contaminated materials which had to be excavated and disposed of The design required the contractor to reduce the size of the Dock by 1 3rd from the north end to form the 75 berth Marina and to re construct the lock chamber lock gates and cill Work on site began in early May 1986 and within twelve months the contractor had excavated the dock constructed a new north wall re puddled the dock floor and renovated the lock The site was equipped with 14 tower cranes and had approximately 1500 personnel on site during most of the build phase In April 1987 a commissioning Champagne Party was held on two pontoons in the newly flooded marina for all the staff directly involved Lock entrance into Chelsea Harbour Achievements Edit Between April 1986 and April 1987 the construction team achieved the following 2 000 piles had been sunk over 30 metres down to the London clay without problems despite some being within two metres of both a London Underground main electrical supply cable and of a huge Victorian built storm sewer 250 000 cu Metres of earth had been excavated and removed from the site 55 acres of floor space were built using 70 000 cubic metres of concrete and 8 000 tons of steel one continuous concrete pour on Chelsea Garden Market s foundations totalled over 400 cu Metres with mixer trucks queueing up for several hundred yards along Townmead Road To ensure an uninterrupted cement supply for the concrete 5 000 tons of cement were stockpiled in a hulk moored in the London Docks and a concrete supply company was bought outright to devote priority of supply to the project the reinforced structural concrete frame of Chelsea Crescent which contained 64 apartments as originally designed was built in just eight weeks three new bridges had been completed on site including the largest thrust bore 7 tunnel in Europe over Townmead Road which was hydraulically jacked into position under an operating rail line in a single weekend two buildings had been completed to shell amp core status and the interior spaces were already being occupied by the contractors of incoming tenants a further eight buildings were under construction including Chambers and Chelsea Garden Market The 18 storey Belvedere tower was topped out within six months of the start of work The constructors managed to pour a new floor every four days with pre fabricated sub sections of Rebar built on the ground using go no go Jigs using a quick curing high strength concrete Flat soffits with no downstand beams and pre fabricated steel wheeled jack up Forms were placed removed and re positioned by the building s tower crane with the aid of temporary support platforms cantilevered off the side of the structure erected in what would become one of the Belvedere s lift shafts Construction work against Chelsea Harbour backdrop Contracts Edit All the buildings save for the hotel were built as shell amp core contracts with tenants leasing their spaces from Chelsea Harbour Ltd through their letting agents Once each building was wind and weather tight and connected to the external services tenants commissioned their own contractors for the internal finishings Bovis project managed the construction of the hotel from piling level to roadway level and the remainder of the structure above ground was completed by a client who had concluded a long lease with Chelsea Harbour Ltd The civil and structural engineers for the project were Clarke Nicholls and Marcel of Hammersmith London W6 Marketing Edit Harrods Estates were asked to manage the residential aspects such as the sale and letting of properties The 310 apartments were marketed with prices starting at around 2 million per property The 261 000 sq ft of land has 24 hour security patrols and residents have 24 hour porterage 8 Marina Edit Chelsea Harbour Pier The marina itself is not used commercially but accommodates luxury yachts and speedboats and can be accessed from the Thames at high tide The lock accessibility was indicated by a huge hollow sphere rising amp dropping on a mast topping The Belvedere visible for a long way both upstream and down and connected to a tide gauge by the lock gate giving into the Thames Imperial Wharf and transport Edit Imperial Wharf railway station western entrance 2 The immediate vicinity has been enhanced by Imperial Wharf a riverside development by St George plc Its name commemorates the Imperial Gas Light and Coke Company that established its operations here in 1824 9 The development is served by a London Overground station Imperial Wharf which opened on 27 September 2009 providing direct rail links with Clapham Junction and Willesden Junction as well as Southern services to Milton Keynes Central and East Croydon There are Transport for London bus services including route C3 linking Chelsea Harbour with Earl s Court Fulham and Clapham Junction and route 424 River bus services Edit River bus services are provided at peak hours by London River Services from Chelsea Harbour Pier and provide transport to Putney and Blackfriars Millennium Pier 10 Chelsea Design Centre Edit Chelsea Harbour Design Centre The Chelsea Harbour Design Centre is home to over 70 showrooms occupying nearly 66 000 sq ft gross internal space topped by three large glazed domes over a galleria The offices are in two buildings known as Harbour Yard and The Design Centre East 11 Notable residents EditChelsea Harbour is off the Lots and Townmead roads and has been home to some notable past and contemporary residents who have included Joseph Addison 1672 1719 essayist playwright lived at Sands End 12 William De Morgan 1832 1917 potter ceramicist designer and novelist lived and worked nearby 13 Michael Caine 14 Robbie Williams 15 Tom Stoppard 14 Emmanuel Petit 16 Sally Burton 14 Sir Ralph Halpern 14 Lots Road power station Edit Chelsea Harbour against Lots Road Power Station beyond the creek A neighbouring large scale development called Chelsea Waterfront planned by Terry Farrell is under way on the site of Lots Road power station John Roque s 1746 Map EditThe extract below of John Rocque s Map of London 1746 shows Fulham in the loop of the Thames with Counter s Creek distinctly visible to the left just below the elbow in the river Sands End and the future Chelsea Harbour area lies immediately to the left of the mouth of the tributary which is called Chelsea Creek at this juncture 17 B 2This sheet extract is a clickable image for enlargementReferences and notes Edit Barton Nicholas 1992 The Lost Rivers of London London Historical Publications p 71 ISBN 0 948667 15 X Chelsea Harbour Chelsea Harbour Retrieved 30 November 2015 Sands End Hidden London hidden london com Retrieved 17 October 2016 Webb Arthur W Sandford Manor in Survey of London Monograph 8 Sandford Manor Fulham London 1907 pp 11 16 British History Online http www british history ac uk survey london bk8 pp11 16 accessed 16 October 2016 Denny Barbara 1997 Fulham Past London Historical Publications p 82 ISBN 0 948667 43 5 Chelsea Harbour Fulham London SW6 for flats and apartments Chelseaharbourliving co uk 15 April 1986 Archived from the original on 20 November 2015 Retrieved 30 November 2015 Thrust Boring Definition Trenchlesspedia Retrieved 17 August 2022 Simon Midgley 6 March 1994 Eurotrains rumble Chelsea s rich calm Home News The Independent Retrieved 30 November 2015 Panorama of the Thames wordpress com Retrieved 17 October 2016 permanent dead link Boats from Chelsea Harbour Pier PDF Transport for London Spring 2009 Retrieved 29 September 2009 See Frost Meadowcroft and Edward Charles amp Partners Design Centre occupiers include Hermes Armani Casa Knoll company Ligne Roset Contact details Frostmeadowcroft com Archived from the original on 24 September 2015 Retrieved 30 November 2015 Design Centre Chelsea Harbour Home Dcch co uk Archived from the original on 26 November 2015 Retrieved 30 November 2015 Denny Barbara 1997 Fulham Past London Historical Publications p 77 78 ISBN 0 948667 43 5 William De Morgan and the Arts amp Crafts Movement Antique Marks Retrieved 2 October 2016 a b c d New neighbours for Harbour celebs London Evening Standard 5 April 2012 Retrieved 30 November 2015 Moving on Healthy takings The Sunday Times Archived from the original on 19 November 2015 Retrieved 30 November 2015 The beautiful game London Evening Standard 5 April 2012 Retrieved 30 November 2015 Antique Maps at the Map House of London www themaphouse com Retrieved 14 December 2019 External links Edit London Hammersmith and Fulham travel guide from Wikivoyage Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chelsea Harbour Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Chelsea Harbour amp 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