In advance of an article that I’ve written for the October issue of The Critic about 22, Bishopsgate, the new anonymous monster now dominating the skyline of the City, I thought I should explore some of the new developments in Nine Elms, which I have hitherto only seen and disliked from Westminster Bridge.

I started at Battersea Power Station station, which has been the subject of grandiose plans for development ever since John Broome bought it from the government in 1987 for £1.5 million to turn into a theme park.   It’s now all been cleaned up and the towers rebuilt, ready to open next year as the headquarters of Apple:-