Wandsworth Council has launched a contest to design a new pedestrian bridge across the Thames in Battersea, London.
The proposed crossing between Grosvenor Railway Bridge and Vauxhall Bridge will provide a pedestrian and cycle link from Nine Elms to Pimlico.
Expected to serve 9,000 walkers and 9,000 cyclists a day, the bridge forms part of a £1bn infrastructure package in Nine Elms that includes an extension to the Northern Line, a new network of footpaths and two riverbus piers.
The planned bridge will cost around £40m, a much lower figure than Thomas Heatherwick’s £175m “Garden Bridge”, which was granted planning permission by Westminster Council last week.
Around £26m is already committed to the project, which was deemed “feasible in engineering and construction terms” in a TfL report completed in 2013.
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The report also confirmed that there would be a “high potential demand for the crossing”, due to the “large distance between existing bridges in this location (relative to others in central London), combined with new demand generated by the development of the Vauxhall Nine Elms Battersea Opportunity Area”.
The two stage competition will be judged by a panel made up of Wandsworth Council leader, Ravi Govindia, architect Graham Stirk, engineer Henry Bardsley, CABE chair Pam Alexander and head of urban design at Transport for London, Robin Buckle.
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