Proposals for a 29-storey mixed-use tower at the southern end of Battersea Bridge have been resoundingly refused by Wandsworth council’s planning committee.

Councillors unanimously rejected developer Rockwell’s controversial 110-home Glassmill scheme at a committee meeting yesterday evening following a discussion lasting just over an hour in which no councillor voiced support for the plans.

The decision follows signficant local opposition to the application, which has received more than 2,000 objections from members of the public while two separate petitions launched by campaigners to scrap the scheme amassed a total of nearly 6,000 signatures.

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