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Serving Vauxhall from Crystal Palace.

Serving Vauxhall from Crystal Palace.

Vauxhall and the Nine Elms corridor represent one of London's most significant ongoing commercial developments. The area stretching from Vauxhall Bridge south along the Albert Embankment and west through Nine Elms to Battersea Power Station has seen billions of pounds of investment over the past decade — bringing with it a dense concentration of new residential developments, corporate offices, hotels, embassies and high-end hospitality venues that generate substantial and sustained demand for quality food.

New Covent Garden Market sits at the heart of Nine Elms — London's primary wholesale fruit, vegetable, flower and food market, and the most important ingredient sourcing destination for professional food businesses in South London. For food businesses whose production depends on daily wholesale sourcing, proximity to New Covent Garden is a genuine operational advantage that shapes where they locate their production kitchen.

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The corporate and diplomatic cluster around Vauxhall Cross — including the MI6 building, several major embassies and a growing concentration of professional services businesses along the Albert Embankment — adds a significant corporate catering market to an area already rich with event and hospitality demand. The Battersea Power Station development to the west has established a new high-end retail and hospitality destination that is rapidly maturing into one of London's most active event catering markets.

Karma Kitchen Crystal Palace sits in SE26 with road access north and west towards Vauxhall via the South Circular and the A3. For food businesses serving the Nine Elms, Vauxhall and Battersea market, Crystal Palace provides a well-connected South London production base with the full range of kitchen sizes — from shared access at £105 per shift through to large-scale private units — at costs significantly below anything available closer to SW8 or SW11.

Kitchens and pricing

Kitchens available at our Crystal Palace site

170 sq ft

£2,600/mo

12-month licence

300 sq ft

£3,600/mo

24-month lease

600 sq ft

£6,200/mo

24-month lease

900+ sq ft

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Custom agreement

All private units: 2 months deposit + 1 month rent + VAT, payable upfront.

Getting here

SE26 5AQ has northbound and westbound road access towards Vauxhall via the South Circular and the A3. The A205 South Circular connects westward through Tulse Hill, Streatham and Clapham towards Vauxhall and Nine Elms. The A23 provides a northbound alternative via Brixton and Stockwell towards the Albert Embankment.

Our Crystal Palace site is 6.9 miles from Vauxhall, around 33 minutes by car.
 

Kangley Bridge Rd London SE26 5AQ
What’s nearby

What’s nearby

New Covent Garden Market at Nine Elms is the most practical large-scale ingredient sourcing destination for food businesses operating from South London — a wholesale market covering fruit, vegetables, flowers and specialist food products used daily by London's most serious professional food businesses. For food businesses producing from Crystal Palace and serving the Vauxhall and Nine Elms corridor, the market sits directly on the delivery route between the production site and the client base.

The Battersea Power Station development has established a new concentration of high-end restaurants, event spaces and retail food businesses along the south bank of the Thames — a growing market for wholesale food supply and event catering. The wider Clapham and Stockwell area adds a dense residential population with strong delivery demand across SW4, SW8 and SW9, complementing the corporate and event catering opportunity in the Nine Elms corridor itself.

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