Published 8 August 2025

The regeneration of The Oval Gas Works and Kennington Lane, located next to the world-famous Kia Oval Cricket Ground, is creating a community of around 1,400 new one, two and three-bedroom homes with over a thousand job opportunities and apprenticeships during its construction. This project is transforming the local area, seeing a derelict site become a lively community where people can live, work, shop and play.

Working closely with Berkeley Group and GRID Architects in the pre-planning stages, and Formation Architects and Rolfe Judd Architects during the delivery stages, Waterman’s team provided multidisciplinary support for the scheme, including civil and structural engineering, building services and vertical transport designs, contamination and remediation consultancy.

Oval Village: Planning Awards

Our building services experts designed the site-wide district heating network which is served by a central energy centre as part of the low energy strategy for the site in conjunction with PV cells at roof level. High efficiency heat recovery on ventilation systems lowers energy use further.

The structural design includes attenuation tanks integrated into the foundation design to control rainwater discharge rates to the local sewer network. Irrigation to the landscape areas via recycled rainwater to reduce water use. Our infrastructure and environment team prepared a desk-based ground contamination report, outline remediation strategy, air quality and dust management plan, and environmental management and monitoring plan to support the planning application.