
Another Aylesbury leaseholder goes to lands tribunal
As mentioned in our previous blog post, this week will see a second Aylesbury estate...
Southwark's rogue landlords - enforcement or endorsement?
We have written briefly before about the Aylesbury estate leaseholders subjected to CPO proceedings and...

Heygate FOI appeal decision - Tribunal delivers verdict
The 35% campaign welcomes the latest - and hopefully final - decision in the battle...

The Elephant goes offshore
Developer Delancey has registered its land holdings at the Elephant & Castle to tax havens...

The Elephant's new Ivory Towers
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Middlemen on the make
It was announced earlier this month that the Elephant’s 360 tower is in line for...

Mission Possible - bringing viability assessments out of the dark
Following the successful FOI request by Heygate campaigners, Earls Court community activists have also succeeded...

Heygate Tribunal Hearing Extended
The scheduled 5 day hearing of Southwark Council’s appeal against the Information Commissioner’s order to...

Heygate Viability Figures Tribunal Appeal
The 35% Campaign will be giving evidence this week at the 5-day Tribunal hearing for...

D'One at the Elephant
Land Registry documents reveal that Southwark Council sold 1.4 acres of the old leisure centre...

Stack em high - 1,000 homes on the shopping centre site?
New owners of the shopping center Delancey is looking to build in excess of 1,000...

Kim Humphreys - exit stage left, enter stage right
There was much surprise at Southwark’s Overview and Scrutiny Meeting last Monday, when new shopping...

Heygate pyramid proposed – pharaoh included?
The Heygate is to get a pyramid. Turner Prize nominee Mike Nelson and public arts...

Southwark sends in the Heavies
The last resident of the Heygate estate was forcibly evicted from his home today. A...

The end for the last Heygate residents
Southwark Council stole our homes and we are not going to forget it. (Terry Redpath,...

Oakmayne vs Ministry of Sound - Round 198
The decision on the Eileen House planning application, 335 flats, 41 stories has been delayed...

Lean, Clean and Green but a bit Contradictory
Last week, Elephant & Castle developer Lend Lease was awarded participant status in Bill Clinton’s...

Something Sinister?
The Evening Standard, Inside Housing, Property Week, as well as the local press, have printed...

Here and Now
Last week German national newspaper Die Welt featured this picture of the Heygate as a...

Towering Disgrace
£18m public money spent but no social rented housing

The Elephant - Sold on and Sold out
The start of work on One the Elephant was marked with some ceremony this week...

How to avoid providing affordable housing - a guide for developers
Since our last blog post we have been asked to explain more about viability assessments...

Heygate Figures must be Revealed - Information Commissioner
Southwark Council has been ordered to disclose the financial viability assessment provided by developer Lend...

Heygate leaseholders forced to sell their homes - CPO approved
The Compulsory Purchase of the remaining 3 leaseholders on the Heygate estate has been approved...

Regeneration branded 'miserable failure' at CPO Public Inquiry
Southwark’s Elephant & Castle regeneration plans were branded “a miserable failure” by former Heygate residents...

A little bit of Shoreditch coming to the Elephant?
Six months after the appearance of 48 large shipping containers on the forecourt of the...

The Heygate Diaspora
“There is a huge silent majority of people that have been moved out of the...

Peter's Denial
There was no sound of a cock crowing, but when asked in a recent radio...

Hoarding the Elephant
An eagle-eyed member of the local community has noticed that the licence that allows the...

Pink Shopping Centre Blues
Mystery abounds about what is happening with the Elephant & Castle shopping centre. An article...