A large-scale data center development has been proposed in East London, UK.

As reported by Greenwich Wire, an application has been filed with the Royal Borough of Greenwich to develop a 100,000 sqm (1.07m sq ft) data center, substation, and up to 10,000 sqm (107,639 sq ft) of mixed-use space.

The 122-hectare development would be on land adjacent to and including the former Stone Foundries at 669A Woolwich Road and the VIP Industrial Estate in Charlton. The 6.9-hectare data center development could total 180MW across 70,325 sqm (756,972 sq ft), with some $1.4 billion set to be invested.

The current application requests a scoping opinion on whether the project needs a full Environmental Impact Assessment.

“The site presents a rare opportunity in that it possesses all the attributes necessary to develop a data center within the next few years in terms of its scale, location, and availability, including a confirmed power connection, high-speed fiber infrastructure and proximity to financial markets,” states one of the project documents.

Construction could start in 2027/2028 and be completed as soon as 2028/2029.

A dedicated project website for the development, known as Charlton Gateway, has been set up by Greater London Industrial (GLi). A consultation on the development ran from November to December 2025 but went unreported.

GLi is a joint venture between real assets investment manager Patrizia and property developer Kingston Space Property (KSP).

The project includes a current trading estate and the former home of industrial manufacturer Stone Foundries. The company, which had been in the area for some 190 years, sold the site to developer Montreaux in 2019 and relocated. Montreaux hoped to develop up to 1,500 homes on the site.

Three of Stone’s buildings are on Greenwich’s local heritage list, and two face demolition as part of the redevelopment.

Much of the site was also previously earmarked for more than 770 new homes, but the plans were rejected by Greenwich councilors in 2018, again by London Mayor Sadiq Khan in 2019, and a third time in 2020 by the UK government’s then-communities secretary Robert Jenrick after an appeal.

The land was sold by Rockwell and Zenprop in 2022 to Falconbrook. GLi then acquired the site, and an application for an industrial warehouse on part of the site was approved last year.

GLi has owned the VIP Industrial Estate in Charlton since 2022.

KSP is also involved in the 200MW Heathrow Gateway project in West London.

Patrizia has previously invested in Aligned, is developing a campus outside London in Iver alongside CorScale, has acquired a data center in Berlin, and previously sold a property in Finland that it had converted into a data center.