EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Street Fighting Man Mick Jagger is new frontman of group campaigning against £100million tower block development set to loom over south west London with 34 storeys of flats By Richard Eden for The Daily Mail Published: 22:28, 11 June 2024 | Updated: 22:34, 11 June 2024 e-mail View comments Sir Mick Jagger has signed up as a new frontman. Not for another rock band, but for a group of campaigners fighting against proposals for a 34-storey tower block of flats on the banks of the Thames in south-west London. The £100 million tower — named One Battersea Bridge — will not only loom over Battersea, it will cloud the river view from Chelsea, not least for the well-heeled folk on the opposite, north bank only a few hundred yards away.
Jagger has lived in different homes in the area since the 1960s and still has a large house there. He has a strong affiliation with Chelsea and even lived in a flat in nearby Edith Grove with Keith Richards and Brian Jones during the earliest days of the Rolling Stones . Some of their first gigs were in a local pub.
Sir Mick Jagger has signed up as a new frontman for a group of campaigners fighting against proposals for a 34-storey tower block of flats on the banks of the Thames in south- west London Plans for the scheme have recently been submitted to Wandsworth council and are ultimately financed by giant global investors Cerberus. The prospect has prompted wide-scale anger among residents on both sides of the river. .
