More than 200 council homes for social rent are to be built at the Battersea Power Station development.

Wandsworth council and the Malaysian owned developers said they were “working in partnership to build 200 new high quality council homes as part of the development’s 42-acre masterplan.”

It comes after the Standard revealed last year that the Labour run council was unhappy with the “unacceptably low” level of affordable housing in the early phases of the £9 billion scheme.

The Malaysian owners of the riverside scheme faced criticism when it was revealed in 2017 that the number of affordable homes would be reduced by around 40% to 386, or just 9% of the total.

The company said at the time that rising costs and a slump in the luxury housing market in London meant a higher level

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