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 [...]

Beyond the Elephant: Burgess Park

Message from Burgess Park Action Group More local amenities are under threat as Southwark Council plans “to destroy large parts of Burgess Park and use the Aylesbury £4 million to bulldoze the park and replace it with “A purpose built space for some of the largest festivals in Europe with amphitheatre style viewing for over [...]

A change for the better?

Lib Dem has lost four seats in Elephant and Castle wards at the recent local elections and Southwark now has a new Labour administration – what does this mean for the regeneration? The Evening Standard has its own point of view: read it here.