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Greater Southwark
Beyond the river hugging fringes of the Borough, quality new
developments are being encouraged, giving new life to regeneration
areas such as Elephant and Castle and the Aylesbury Estate. Many of
these schemes are mixed use, residential and educational and there are
also some innovative approaches to restoring Southwark’s architectural
heritage for use in the modern world.
This scheme at 50 New Kent Road is pivotal to the Phase 1A is the first part of the London Borough of
regeneration programme at Elephant and Castle. It will Southwark’s Aylesbury Area Action Plan, which aims
be the most significant mixed use scheme at the heart to regenerate the infamously dilapidated and deprived
of the regeneration area. Aylesbury Estate and its environs. Hitard Court, which
has been developed by London & Quadrant, is the
The scheme contains two residential towers; a
first building to be delivered and provides 52 dwellings
student housing tower a leisure base including a 4
and a replacement Aylesbury Resource Centre.
Screen cinema complex, creche and 3 restaurants.
It also includes new retail units, including 24 hour The housing includes intermediate market and
supermarket; a new market square and public affordable homes for rent which are carefully designed
open space; and provides a key piece of strategic so that the scheme is externally tenure-blind. All
infrastructure – a sub-ground route enabling future units are dual aspect and orientated to face south or
servicing of the core land holdings. west. Space standards were arrived at after extensive
consultation with existing residents and exceed Parker
Planning Agent: DP9
Morris standards. The scheme is also designed to
Above: Image © Cooper Rose
Code for Sustainable Homes, Level 4.
Above: Hitard Court viewed from Bradenham Close with the new Aylesbury
Resource Centre in the foreground
Image © Tim Crocker
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Library Street Affordable Housing
Metaphorm Architects
London & Quadrant
Printworks,
Amelia Street
Glenn Howells Architects
First Base
Newington Butts
Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners
Homes and Communities Agency
Sunshine House is a Children’s Primary Care Centre This stunning Spacecraft/Tate & Hindle designed
situated on Peckham Road in South London. The development totals 202 units and comprises 136
building brings together a number of services and private units, 44 affordable units and 14 work units.
includes purpose built facilities for children with special
The development is located to the west of the railway
needs.
viaduct, which separates South Central East and
The challenge was to create a place of quality and ‘0’ Central. The development was completed
uniqueness to provide a strong and playful backdrop in August 2007. Laing O’Rourke was the main
to NHS standardisation. It is a building that is local contractor. The development won several design
but distinctive, offering a colourful but urbane solution and regeneration awards, including best affordable
to a rich and often conflicting set of programme and housing.
performance requirements.
This project helped pioneer the way for future
Above: Sunshine House is on Peckham Road, in a surprisingly leafy context development and investment into the Elephant and
Image © Timothy Soar
Castle regeneration area.
Planning Agent: Pegasus Planning Group
Above: Image © Cooper Rose
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Wardroper House
Sarah Wigglesworth Architects
London & Quadrant
Camberwell Grove
(Former Mary Datchelor School)
Rolfe Judd Architects
St George South London
Strata SE1
Bogle Flanagan
Lawrence Silver
Brookfield Europe