Situated at the corner of New Kent Road and Elephant Road, the scheme includes a new full-size Sainsbury's supermarket, a cinema, shops, student accommodation, homes and a market square. The town centre will also bring fresh jobs and workspace, creating 1,230 construction jobs per year for a decade and then approximately 2,000 full-time jobs in the new town centre.

Uncle (from the Realstar Group) at Newington Butts comprises 457 new homes. 278 of these have been marketed as Uncle apartments for private rent. At least 75 have been allocated to council tenants and 44 are being managed by Peabody as shared-ownership homes. The development also includes a café, gym, sky lounge and a permanent new home for the Southwark Playhouse which opened in January 2023.

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The information on housing, people, culture, employment and education that is displayed about Elephant Road, Southwark, London, SE17 1LB is based on the last census performed in the UK in 2021.

London College of Communication, UAL, is proud to be staying in the area and relocating to the new town centre development. Its new, cutting edge building will add to the college’s rich heritage and will make it even more open and accessible to the local community. These guys also have a taproom and a 50-seater beer garden – which overlooks the leafy Pelier Park – as well as regular pub quizzes and Sunday roasts to boot too. What’s not to love? Plunge columns and the top down slab will then support the tower above, while excavation continues below in the ITH. All ground and piling works on phase two of the redevelopment scheme are scheduled for completion this month.Hotel Elephant is a not-for-profit company, established in 2009 to support the borough’s artists and makers. It provides affordable workspace and runs a programme of education projects, exhibitions, events and film screenings. Find them on Spare Street – a row of converted railway arches named in honour of Walworth artist Austin Osman Spare. Cllr Fiona Colley, Southwark Labour's cabinet member for regeneration, had publicly urged the developers to think again about the name. St Georges Road comprises a new 89-room hotel which will replace the old offices currently being used by BOLD Theatre on a temporary basis. The development also includes new office space; a cafe/restaurant and more public space at ground level.

A new town centre is emerging at Elephant and Castle, with work now well underway to create a transformed environment for shoppers, retailers and residents, including an upgraded tube station and a cutting-edge new campus for UAL’s London College of Communication. All ground and piling works on phase two of the Elephant and Castle town centre redevelopment scheme are scheduled for completion this month. Add in the fact that they offer a lunchtime deal which nets you a margherita for just a fiver between 12-5PM from Monday to Friday, and you can see why this writer is one happy chappy whenever he’s here.

10. Enjoy some peace and quiet at the Tibetan Peace Garden

Morrisroe operations director Mark Wadsworth says: “The Harwich layer is roughly just above the level of the box that we’re digging. The LUL box will be a box in a box, if you like, so you’ve got a secant wall that goes down and cuts off the Harwich layer. It just goes down below formation of the raft slab, so it cuts off that water pressure and goes into the lower London Clay below that.” The information on housing, people, culture, employment and education that is displayed about Elephant Road, Southwark, London, SE17 1FB is based on the last census performed in the UK in 2021.

Castle Square, a shopping destination which brings together local traders around a public square, has already opened. Many locals – including senior Southwark politicians – had objected to the attempt to market the Elephant & Castle development by naming it after part of New York City. Standing in the hole staring up at a 30 storey tower above you – it’s going to be quite impressive,” Waters notes. Progress Work began last autumn on the much-delayed development previously known as Oakmayne Plaza and more recently branded Tribeca Square. The Signal Building is a 22 storey residential development on Newington Causeway, completed in 2014. It includes 38 residential units and 366 sqm of commercial floorspace .

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Elephant Park is a mixed-use development that will create around 3,000 new homes (including the recently completed Trafalgar Place, South Gardens and West Grove) and a major new central London park. The current phase of the Elephant and Castle town centre redevelopment scheme involves significant and complex ground engineering works. The information on housing, people, culture, employment and education that is displayed about Elephant Road, Southwark, London, SE17 1FA is based on the last census performed in the UK in 2021. Working with neighbours and partners, the new town centre will contribute to the rejuvenation of the wider area, breathing new life into what is already one of London’s most dynamic and vibrant places.