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Archive: Elephant and Castle

Elephant & Castle regeneration: These plans are not good enough

Posted on News and Views by Walworth Green Party · December 19, 2017 4:43 PM · 1 reaction

Elephant___Castle_stock_image.jpgSouthwark Council is due to decide on Tuesday 16th January on permission for demolition and redevelopment of Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre, plus the London College of Communication (LCC) site. If permission is granted, property company Delancey plans to begin demolition work in September 2019.

200 objections have been lodged by the local community to Delancey’s current redevelopment plans. The Green Party’s submissions highlighted numerous features which many local people find unacceptable:

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"Did somebody say regeneration?"

Posted on News and Views by Guy Mannes-Abbott · December 12, 2017 4:05 PM

Elephant Park construction site: Photo by Guy Mannes-AbbottNorth Walworth has been subjected to years of “regeneration”, resulting in very scarce public benefits but staggering profits for Lendlease. The next phase of “regeneration” at the Shopping Centre only acknowledged the existing traders and community after the offshore developers submitted their planning application. Is there really no alternative?

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Greens march to defend council housing

Posted on News and Views by Southwark Green Party · April 04, 2017 9:49 AM

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On Saturday 25 March Southwark Greens, together with Tenant and Resident Associations from Rotherhithe, Bermondsey, Peckham and Walworth and many other local groups, took part in a march through the borough organized by Defend Council Housing to fight for an end to social cleansing.

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Plans for the Elephant

Posted on News and Views by Southwark Green Party · February 20, 2017 2:15 PM · 1 reaction

Elephant___Castle_stock_image.jpgThis week Southwark Green Party submitted comments to Southwark Council on the planning application under consideration for the Elephant & Castle area. SGP objected to the application on a number of grounds and fear that the application could be another failure by Southwark Council to properly follow their own planning guidelines and consult communities on development in their areas.

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‘Trafalgar Place exemplifies a dash to socially cleanse valuable land in London’

Posted on News and Views by Guy Mannes-Abbott · October 05, 2016 3:46 PM · 1 reaction

3041120_Trafalgar-Place---Elephant-and-Castle_PressImage_Thomas-_Etchells_5.jpgWriter and North Walworth resident Guy Mannes Abbott writes in The Architecture Review...

Typically, the RIBA’s Stirling Prize shortlist leavens starry spectacles with a socially minded gesture or two. In a thin year for the former, the list still obliged with the flawed spectacularity of Herzog & de Meuron’s Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford. In contrast, the ‘housing crisis’ generated a lot of noise but few homes again, so a ‘flagship’ housing scheme designed by dRMM for the Elephant and Castle’s ‘regeneration’ ticked a misleading box.

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