About Handel Mansions and Barnes Waterside Estate

Barnes Waterside is an exclusive development in North Barnes built by Berkeley Homes in the late 1990’s. The site was previously derelict land and disused reservoirs. Berkeley Homes entered into an arrangement with Thames Water and the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust to purchase ten hectares of the site for housing and funded the adjoining London Wetland Centre, which opened in 2000.

The master planners, JTP Architects, were briefed to design a village community made up of terraces and crescents with a variety of large villas, townhouses and flats. The whole development is set in well maintained gardens. The Estate adjoins the River Thames on the eastern perimeter and the Wetland Centre to the South. Barnes Waterside comprises 231 residential units made up of leasehold flats in seven blocks and
freehold houses.