Decorating Charlotte Despard Avenue

Charlotte Despard Avenue is a residential street in Battersea, named after the prominent suffragist and social activist Charlotte Despard who worked extensively in this part of south London in the early twentieth century. The street lies close to Battersea Park and is characterised by a mixture of inter-war social housing blocks and post-war local authority flats, alongside some Victorian terraced streets nearby. The area is being transformed by the broader Nine Elms regeneration, which is gradually reshaping the built environment along this stretch of the South Bank.

The concrete and rendered masonry of the social housing blocks on Charlotte Despard Avenue requires thorough anti-carbonation paint systems or specialist masonry coatings to protect the substrate and maintain a fresh appearance over the long term. Individual Victorian terraced houses in the surrounding streets benefit from a more traditional specification using breathable masonry paints applied to lime-rendered facades.