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Battersea Power Station Shops: A Shopping Guide

Every other destination in this guide happened slowly. This one was designed. Battersea Power Station is the newest retail address in London and the only one where you can see exactly what it was built to be.

The restored interior of Battersea Power Station: twin staircases and escalators either side of a glass-fronted jewellery hall, brick columns rising several storeys above.
Inside Turbine Hall A. The brick and steel were restored rather than replaced, which is the whole argument for coming. Photograph by Richard Harris on Pexels.

It powered Buckingham Palace

Work started in 1929 to a design by Giles Gilbert Scott. The first turbine hall generated power in 1933 with two chimneys; Turbine Hall B followed in 1944, and the fourth and final chimney went up in 1955.

At its peak the station supplied a fifth of London's electricity, Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament included. Coal gave way to oil, gas and nuclear, the running costs climbed, and it was fully decommissioned in 1983.

Then it sat empty. For most of forty years the most recognisable industrial building in London was a listed ruin with weather coming through the roof, and a succession of redevelopment schemes that never got built.

It opened to the public in October 2022, for the first time in its history. What had been the turbine halls is now retail, the coal yard is now a pedestrianised high street called Electric Boulevard, and there are more than 140 stores, bars, restaurants and venues on the site.

What it is, honestly

This is a development, not a high street that grew. There is no equivalent of Newburgh Quarter here, no rent gradient that lets an oddity survive round the back, and the tenant list is a curated one rather than an accident of a hundred years.

What you get instead is scale, weather protection, and interiors nowhere else in London can match. The Art Deco turbine halls were restored rather than gutted, and walking a retail floor inside them is a genuinely different experience from walking one inside a shopping centre.

Come for that. The brands you can find anywhere.

Walking it

Start inside, finish outside. The turbine halls are the reason to come and Electric Boulevard is where the volume is, so do them in that order and eat at the end.

  1. Turbine Hall A and B

    • Ralph Lauren

      The Art Deco interiors do more for a shopfront than any fit-out could.

    • Mulberry

      British leather, in a building that spent forty years derelict.

    • Nike

      Bigger than the average branch, and busier at weekends.

    • Theory

      Clean tailoring for people who buy once and keep it.

  2. Electric Boulevard

    • Zara48,000 sq ft

      Ground and upper ground. One of the largest branches in the country.

    • Anthropologieopening soon

      Lifestyle and homeware, next through the doors.

    • Uniqlo

      The basics run, done properly.

    • Mango

      Spanish, and consistently better in person than online.

  3. The beauty halls

    • Le Labo

      Fragrance blended in front of you and labelled with your name.

    • Aesop

      The interiors are designed per site, so this one is worth a look on its own.

    • Penhaligon's

      British scent since 1870, and the gifting answer when you have run out of ideas.

    • Moida K-Beautyopened 2026

      Korean skincare, and the reason this corner now gets queues.

  4. The independents

    • Scamp & Dude

      Independent British womenswear with a superhero streak, in among the flagships.

    • Curated Makers

      More than forty local independent makers under one roof. If you came for the independents, start here.

    • The Battersea General Store

      The clue is in the name: the local store, not a national anybody.

    • Postmark

      An independent London card shop, for the thing you always remember on the way out.

  5. Arcade food hall

    • Arcade24,000 sq ft

      Chef-led kitchens, three restaurants and two bars under one roof. Manna, Gracey's Pizza, Hero and Shatta & Toum among them.

Electric Boulevard

London does not get new high streets often. This one is pedestrianised, purpose-built and runs between the power station and the river, and it is where most of the fashion volume sits, Zara's 48,000 square feet included.

It is worth registering how unusual that is. Every other address in this guide inherited its shape from something else, a private royal road, a farm track, a medieval lane. This one was drawn.

How do I get there?

Nearest tube
Battersea Power Station, at the end of the Northern line extension, which comes out at the site. Vauxhall and Sloane Square are both a walk or a short bus.
When to go
Weekday mornings for the interiors without the crowds. Weekends are busy, and the food hall is busiest of all.
How long you need
Half a day if you are eating. Two hours if you are not.
What else is close
Battersea Park is a ten minute walk west, and the river path runs the length of the site.

Go, and make a day of it

Battersea rewards the trip in a way the others do not need to. The building is the attraction, the retail sits inside it, and there is nowhere else in the city where those two things are the same visit.

It is also south of the river and on the way to nothing, so it works better as a plan than a detour.

STREET connects you to London's independents from wherever you are. Browse what they actually have, buy from the ones nearest you, and it comes to you instead. Battersea is in our first launch area.

Go when you can. We will cover the weeks you cannot.

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Nearby guides

Kings Road is over the bridge and the closest of the others. Marylebone High Street is the opposite kind of place entirely.