W.RE acquired the historic Grade II listed Arding and Hobbs building in November 2018. The building has been part of Battersea’s heritage since 1910, as one of South London’s first purpose-built department stores and is an important local landmark featured in films, television, music videos and books.

Our refurbishment plan seeks to create flexible retail and leisure uses across the ground and basement floors and introduce modern office space to the upper floors with a new roof top extension to crown the building. This combination of uses will bring new life to the building and an economic boost to Clapham Junction town centre while restoring the heritage of this iconic landmark.

We learned what the public wanted because we asked. Over 1000 individual responses were received to our consultation and our ten presentations to stakeholders, neighbouring residents and businesses, as well as engagement via our social media platforms… and we listened.