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Fig. 6.9 Battersea Power Station.
Photo by M. Laraia

Apple will locate its London headquarters at Battersea Power Station, becoming the
largest office tenant with 1400 staff across six floors in the former central boiler house.
The overall project site covers an area of 17ha of which 7.3ha will be public space
and 2.4ha will establish a riverside park. In addition to the construction of over 4000
homes, the redevelopment also includes the rehabilitation of the power station itself,
which will generate clean energy by using renewables. As the project’s chimneys are
now complete, phase II is expected to be finished by 2018 or so.
Phase III is deemed to be the most difficult with more complex architectural
designs, for instance, many new apartments are being constructed above the Northern
Line underground station. Phase III includes the construction of 1300 apartments and
3.25 ha of retail and leisure space. The entire site is planned to be fully redeveloped
in 2025.
The project is expected to create more than 20,000 jobs from its onset in 2013
(Open House London, 2018).

6.2.1.13 Reuse of buildings within decommissioning projects
During implementation of decommissioning activities, installation of new buildings is
expensive and it can be complicated to obtain construction licenses within the frame of
a decommissioning license. Therefore, during the planning phase, when strategical
decisions are taken, the reuse of existing operational or auxiliary buildings should
be considered to save time and money. Regardless of postdecommissioning uses, a
number of buildings have been reused during nuclear decommissioning for purposes
inherent to, and instrumental in, the decommissioning process itself. Typically,