ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEThe developer's announcement says only that "early construction work is expected to begin in 2026", a year rather than a date.[1]
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- Dec 31, 202650% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
Earls Court Redevelopment Starts on Site
The 44-acre former exhibition site won consent from Hammersmith & Fulham on 26 November 2025 and Kensington & Chelsea on 16 December 2025, a decade after the exhibition halls came down. Phase one of the GBP 10bn masterplan covers the first 1,300 homes, offices, a cultural venue and a 4.5-acre park, with the whole site due to be finished by 2043.
- Both boroughs have now backed the £10bn Earls Court masterplan: Hammersmith & Fulham's Planning Committee approved it unanimously on 26 November and Kensington & Chelsea's passed a resolution to grant planning permission on 16 December[1]
- ECDC had submitted hybrid planning applications to each borough in 2024, seeking outline permission for the illustrative masterplan and detailed permission for six buildings forming the first phase[1]
- "With detailed permission secured for the first phase, early construction work is expected to begin in 2026", with the immediate focus on public-private collaboration to bring forward the first 1,300 homes within Phase One[1]
- The site is 44 acres, described as Central London's largest cleared development site; Earls Court Partnership Limited acquired it in December 2019 and in 2022 secured control of the adjoining TfL Lillie Bridge Depot and associated land[1]
- The developer is the Earls Court Development Company, founded by Delancey and APG, acting for a joint venture of Delancey, Dutch pension fund manager APG and Places for London, Transport for London's property company[1]
- The full masterplan is about 4,000 homes including affordable housing and a new tenure aimed at supporting the "squeezed middle", 2.5 million sq ft of workspace focused on climate innovation delivering around 12,000 on-site jobs, and three new world-class cultural venues plus fixed and pop-up venues, retail, dining and leisure[1]
- Public realm runs to 20 acres of open and green space - larger than the single park the pin describes - designed by SLA and Studio Egret West with over 1,000 new trees and an 85% uplift in biodiversity, alongside a zero-carbon energy network and a zero operational carbon target given as "from day one" in one place and "from first occupation" in another[1]
- Wider economic claims are 23,500 jobs across the UK and £3bn a year injected into the economy, described by APG's Rafael Torres-Villalba as "annually £3billion of GVA to the UK economy"[1]
- Hawkins\Brown and Studio Egret West are masterplan architects, with Sheppard Robson, Serie, Maccreanor Lavington and dRMM on the buildings submitted in detail and EPR, ACME and Haworth Tompkins on those in outline; new residential crescents cluster taller buildings near the Empress State Building, the tallest of them a 42-storey Sheppard Robson design[1]
- The site has three Tube stations on its doorstep plus London Overground and several bus routes, and the plan adds new east-west and north-south routes for pedestrians and cyclists; ZCD Architects helped set up a Public Realm Inclusivity Panel and the masterplan was shaped by over four years of engagement and co-design[1]
- ECDC chief executive Rob Heasman said the plans "will restore Earls Court as a global destination, a place for ingenuity, and for the extraordinary" and that focus "will now turn firmly to delivery"[1]
- The release does not give a completion date for the whole site[1]
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- [1]50%earlscourt.com/news/stage-set-for-10bn-transformation-of-earls-court-as-plans-are-fully-backed-by-local-boroughsearlscourt.com· Posted Sep 20, 2026· Starts Dec 31, 2026 ✓· 100% of score
The developer's announcement says only that "early construction work is expected to begin in 2026", a year rather than a date.
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