Make’s plans for a 30-story complex of curving towers close to London’s Battersea Power Station have stalled just weeks after they were first unveiled.

The scheme, for client and site owner National Grid, was feted as one of the flagship projects in the Nine Elms opportunity area, a huge Thames-side scheme which also includes a new US Embassy building and the regenerated power station.

The scheme was to include homes, offices, shops, health and education facilities, and a major public courtyard, with the four towers echoing the cylindrical design of the existing gasholders.

The spokesman said: ‘The issues of the economic background means we do not need to push this forward in this time frame. It is a medium-term aspiration. Things have moved on since last year, and it is going to take a little bit longer in this economic environment.’

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