It is absolutely still gentrification if you take one of the few places in London where people who work in lower-income jobs in London used to be able to afford to live and make it a luxury zone for unexplained wealth.
There are many gentrification complaints about that development and wider Battersea, and it has been an absolute legal battleground:
It's not actually the angle I was taking. Weirdly, considering it was driven by 1MDB, it's not an illegitimate or corrupt project in and of itself, and there's much more dodgy foreign money going into the rest of Battersea's redevelopment.
My complaint is what they built. It's a dreadful, dreadful project.
There are many gentrification complaints about that development and wider Battersea, and it has been an absolute legal battleground:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/20/develo...
It's not actually the angle I was taking. Weirdly, considering it was driven by 1MDB, it's not an illegitimate or corrupt project in and of itself, and there's much more dodgy foreign money going into the rest of Battersea's redevelopment.
My complaint is what they built. It's a dreadful, dreadful project.