About us

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Barnes Waterside is an exclusive development in north Barnes, built by Berkeley Homes in the late 1990s on a site that was previously derelict land and disused reservoirs owned by Thames Water. Berkeley Homes, who entered into a partnership with Thames Water and the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, purchased ten hectares of the site for the development and funded the adjoining London Wetland Centre, 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, town houses and flats in period style. The whole development is set in beautiful gardens, with a ‘village pond’, adjoining the River Thames on the eastern perimeter and the Wetland Centre to the south. Harrods Village, formerly a soap works, candle-making factory and sugar refinery and later Harrods’ Depository, is sandwiched between Barnes Waterside and the river on the north-eastern boundary.