Green light for Ballymore housing plan

The Ballymore Group has won council approval for a plan to turn a former DHL depot and adjoining land into almost 2,000 houses at a site beside Battersea Power Station in London.

A total of 1,626 to 1,982 apartments may be built, as well as shops, a car showroom, a 100-bed hotel and offices, according to the application.

The site is known as Embassy Gardens and will be developed next to a five-acre plot sold to the US in 2009 for a new embassy.