A £1.3 billion riverside development is set to go ahead on the banks of the Thames after developers won a ten year planning battle.

A new 1,068 home neighbourhood with a secondary school, shops, offices and and nine-acres of green space will be built at the Stag Brewery site at Mortlake, despite more than 1,000 objections and local concerns about traffic and levels of affordable housing.

But planning inspector Glen Rollings has approved Singapore owned developer Reselton Properties’ two applications - one for the new homes, and the other for the school - in a long awaited report.

The Stag Brewery is one of London’s oldest beer making sites tracing its roots to the original Mortlake Brewery, attached to a monastry. Brewing activity was first recorded in 1487.

The site, close to the finishing line of the Oxford and Cambridge boat race, has been owned by various companies, including Watney's and AB InBev, which brewed Budweiser there before operations ceased in 2015.

Reselton bought the 22 acre site that year and its first plans for the site with 813 homes in 2018. They were approved by Richmond council council but called in by Sadiq Khan, over a lack of affordable housing.

The developer then increased the housing to to 1,250 homes, with up to 30 per cent affordable housing, but this was thrown out by the Mayor in 2021 due to concerns over its height and scale.