A hotel planned for the Battersea Power Station redevelopment will become more flats, after alterations were approved by Wandsworth Council's planning committee.

The changes submitted by the developers cover phases three, four, and six of the development, and were heard by the planning committee on Thursday night.

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The hotel planned will instead become 409 flats, with 54 affordable, a rate of 15 per cent that mirrors the rest of the development.

It is an 11 per cent increase in the overall rate of housing.

The changes mean that the council has had to alter the amount it charges the developers in Community Infrastructure Levy and Section 106 but officers assured councillors that the end total would be the same, even if where the funds came from changed.

Councillor Will Sweet said: "This is the flagship development of Nine Elms and of the borough.

"I think we are being fair on the developers, we are getting the same amount of money from them.

"The precedent we need to set is that we are fair to developers, we get what we need from them, but no more than that."

Councillor Tony Belton said he believed the idea of being fair on developers did not go down well "on the streets".

In the report, officers said the reduction of hotel space would have a minor impact on strategic objectives for visitor accommodation in the capital but results in the "delivery of much needed residential accommodation".