No more football on the Elephant Park?

The Elephant Amenity Network turned out in force to try and save Elephant Park last Saturday 26 February.  We joined with the football players of the local Latin American football league and met with the ‘Southwark News’  (see here) in an effort to stop the boarding-up of the park. The park is the site of what will eventually [...]

Demolishing the Heygate: Public Meeting 20th July 2010

UPDATE: Read a report of the public meeting on Paul Coleman’s London blog. A public meeting to understand what is happening to the Heygate Estate and to the first phase of the demolition plans. The agenda for the meeting includes information regarding the surveys that the council has carried out on ecology, asbestos and the [...]

Green light to the transformation of Elephant and Castle

On Wednesday 7th July Southwark Council has agreed to the terms of the Regeneration Agreement with Lend Lease, allowing for the £1.5bn transformation of the Elephant and Castle to begin. Unfortunately, the agreement is not available to public scrutiny “as it contains commercially sensitive information”. Although the main points of the development proposals can be [...]

Latest news: Eileen House

Eileen House is an office block behind the Bakerloo Line entrance to the tube at the Elephant. It is due to be demolished and replaced by a 40+ story tower block. This development has no social rented units and only 80 affordable homes (part-buy part-rent). This is contrary to policy 4.4 of the Southwark Plan, [...]

Radio 4 Programme with Interviews

Elephant & Castle Regeneration ‘The World Tonight‘ on BBC Radio 4 (May 3rd 2010) had a radio feature with interviews with Jerry Flynn from Elephant Amenity Network and Laura Fudge from Aylesbury Tenant’s First. It’s not bad! The main points are stressed about local demands for social rented housing not being meet and also about [...]