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Aylesbury Update: cost of leaseholder buy-outs leaps
Southwark to ‘update’ development contract with Notting Hill Genesis
Elephant traders without new premises one year after shopping centre closes
Traders’ deputation seeks fair treatment from developers; urges Southwark Council to act
Lendlease's final plot for Elephant Park - offices, not homes
Southwark to change rules to allow office block on former Heygate estate.
Former Council leader glides through revolving doors
Former Southwark Council leader Peter John OBE has joined the long list of councillors and...
Legal battle for the Elephant and Castle shopping centre ends
Final decision goes Delancey’s way
Southwark rips up Aylesbury Area Action Plan
Without consultation, Southwark Council has decided to scrap the 182-page planning document which sets the...
Action on Southwark's empty homes
Manor Place Depot photoshoot
Appeal against Elephant Shopping Centre development tomorrow
The long-awaited Court of Appeal hearing against the High Court decision to uphold the planning...
Social Rent or Affordable Rent?
Five years ago today, Southwark Council rejected our complaint that affordable homes secured from private...
Wood Dene Protest against empty homes
People Before Profit and Southwark Defend Council Housing (SDCH) are mounting a protest against empty...
No room for social rent at Pocket Living on the Old Kent Road
Southwark Council is set to approve a mixed-used residential scheme in the Old Kent Rd...
Shopping Centre closes, but campaign for traders continues
The closure of the Elephant and Castle shopping centre last Thursday was marked by protest,...
The Elephant traders who face the end without new homes
Shopping centre developer Delancey and Southwark Council have mounted a desperate defence of their failed...
Shopping Centre traders propose new stalls for the Elephant
Traders who will be losing their market stalls when the Elephant and Castle shopping closes...
Southwark responds to shopping centre campaigners
Southwark Council has posted a lengthy statement in defence of its treatment of the shopping...
The shopping centre traders expelled by regeneration
In our last blog post we detailed how Up the Elephant and other campaigners had...
Campaigners demand that UAL withdraws from shopping centre development.
Campaigners fighting against the demolition and redevelopment of the Elephant and Castle shopping centre have...
Aylesbury estate regeneration to have new council homes
Southwark Council has announced that the First Development Site (FDS) of the Aylesbury estate regeneration...
Old Kent Rd scheme faces loss of affordable housing
Berkeley Homes is the first developer in Southwark to threaten to reduce the affordable housing...
The harsh reality of relocation for shopping centre traders
The Southwark Law Centre (SLC) has written to Southwark Council, detailing the shortcomings of the...
Shopping centre CPO - Southwark ploughs on regardless
Southwark Council is set to assume Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) powers, on behalf of offshore...
Council to remove last shopping centre traders using CPO powers
In an extraordinary move Southwark Council is poised to ‘buy’ both the Elephant and Castle...
Elephant Park - planning committee misled?
Developer Lendlease failed to disclose at Last week’s planning committee meeting that it was in...
Elephant Park - final phase, final windfall for Lendlease
We blogged last year about the final phase (MP5 H7) of the Heygate regeneration.
The Biscuit Factory is back
We blogged back in 2018 about the redevelopment of the former Peek Freans biscuit factory...
Shopping centre traders demand fair play
A deputation of shopping centre traders are due to attend Southwark Council’s Assembly meeting tomorrow,...
Elephant traders still homeless
As Delancey announces its intention to close down the E&C shopping centre, research by Latin...
High Court hearing looms for Elephant shopping centre
Legal challenge goes to High Court next week
Canada Water regeneration finally up for approval
15 hectares of public land, 4000 new homes but affordable housing policy requirements not met....
Elephant Park MP5 - the final chapter
Final phase of Heygate redevelopment proposes increase in homes, but with decrease in affordable