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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.

Oakmayne Plaza Aylesbury Estate Regeneration Phase 1A


PKS/Tate & Hindle/McBains Cooper Levitt Bernstein Associates
Delancey/Oakmayne Properties London & Quadrant

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

Part of Southwark’s Elephant and Castle Housing


Programme, Metaphorm’s competition-winning
design for Library Street entails an apartment block
and six townhouses. The buildings are arranged
to complement the context spatially in delimiting
an ‘island of nature’, as an environment especially
suitable for families with young children. Central to
this are three landscaped open spaces: a courtyard,
a community garden and a roof garden over the
apartment block, defining public, semi-public and
private open spaces. The apartments are arranged
around the courtyard and the townhouses overlook
the community garden. Planning consent has been
granted and the project is now on site.
Left: View from community garden
© Metaphorm Architects

Printworks,
Amelia Street
Glenn Howells Architects
First Base

This former printworks on Amelia Street in Southwark


has been developed by the Homes and Communities
Agency with innovative housing developer First Base
under the London Wide Initiative.
The initiative is a collaboration between HCA, ODPM
and the GLA to increase the supply of affordable
homes in London.
Printworks is a high quality mixed-tenure
development, which will make a substantial
contribution to the regeneration of the Elephant
and Castle area, providing affordable homes for
keyworkers alongside private and socially-rented
homes.
The nine storey block includes offices on the ground
floor. A landscaped courtyard to the rear provides a
tranquil green space for residents.
Planning Agent: DP9
Left: View from Amelia Street
Image © Paul McMullin

Newington Butts
Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners
Homes and Communities Agency

The scheme includes 470 homes, of which 355


are located within a striking 43-storey tower. The
remaining 115 homes are located within a terrace
block fronting onto St Mary’s Churchyard park.
The development also includes theatre space for
Southwark Playhouse, a café and retail/marketing
space.
Key features are townscape, public realm,
affordable housing provision, s106 contributions and
improvements to the local environment. The project is
an excellent example of large scale regeneration on a
challenging urban site.
Planning Agent: DP9
Above: Image of The Former London Park Hotel at Dusk
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Sunshine House ‘O’ Central


Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Spacecraft/Tate & Hindle
Building Better Health Ltd Oakmayne Properties

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

Located in the diverse residential landscape of


Elephant and Castle, this fifteen-unit housing scheme
establishes a strong, well scaled presence on St
George’s Road. The new building encloses and retains
the existing amenity space and provides a colourful
façade of glazed bricks and cedar wood to the street.
On the return face, a wall of balconies overlooks a
new homezone at the threshold to Prospect House.
All units are two bed apartments including wheelchair
accessible accommodation and are designed to
Lifetime Homes standards. Apartments have been
fitted out to make them simple to use and economical
for residents to run.
Left: View of balcony wing from the north
Image © Mark Hadden

New Aylesbury Academy


Allies and Morrison Architects
Balfour Beatty

The Aylesbury Estate is currently undergoing


regeneration and this new Academy, with its
Engineering specialism, will address the shortfall
in local school places for boys. Proposals retain,
refurbish and remodel a four-storey Victorian Board
School building and add new accommodation to
maximise use of the tight urban site.
A new metal-clad pavilion provides a welcoming
entrance and a new four-storey brick building creates
a range of open and enclosed learning spaces,
grouped around a central atrium, for Science,
Technology, Engineering and Maths. A flexible new
performance space opens onto a linear play area
which incorporates space for outdoor teaching and
dining and leads to a new stand-alone Sports Hall.
Facades incorporate generous windows for natural
light and ventilation and the buildings will connect into
a local district heating system.
Planning Agent: Barton Wilmore
Left: Image of New Aylesbury Academy courtesy of Allies and Morrison Architects

 Camberwell Grove
(Former Mary Datchelor School)
 Rolfe Judd Architects
 St George South London

The development of the former Mary Datchelor School provided the


opportunity to restore and refurbish much loved buildings in the heart of
Camberwell and to provide new high quality sustainable homes through a
mix of apartments and townhouses:
The objectives of the project were to:
• Create a desirable place to live
• Use the built form to create high quality spaces and places
• Respect the unique character and identity of the area
• Follow the existing pattern of development in the Conservation Area
• Create a sustainable living environment.
Planning Agent: GVA Grimley
Left: Elevation to Camberwell Grove showing two completed town houses and
the original school building converted to residential
Image © Rolfe Judd
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Camberwell Road
Weston Williamson
Trademark Homes

Weston Williamson were commissioned in 2007 to


design a mixed use development for two adjacent
sites on Camberwell Road, SE4.
The proposal consists of commercial accommodation
on the ground floor, with a mix of one, two and three
bed private sale and affordable residential apartments
on the upper floors. Communal and private amenity
space is incorporated through the integration of
landscaped roof terraces and balconies.
The southern site presents the opportunity to reinstate
enclosure to the north west corner of Camberwell
Green. Ground floor glazed shop fronts re-establish
activity at street level whilst the upper copper-clad
volume is perceived as skin cut away to reveal the
spaces within.
Planning Agent: Giant View
Left: Dusk view north from Camberwell Road
Image © Jonathan Weston/softselection and Weston Williamson

Strata SE1
Bogle Flanagan
Lawrence Silver
Brookfield Europe

Strata SE1 is the new benchmark for sustainable high


rise urban living in London. Comprising a 43 storey,
408 apartment, mixed tenure residential development,
Strata SE1 sets the standard for innovative and
environmentally responsible design and is the latest
dynamic addition to London’s skyline.
Conceived in 2005 by a world class architect (Robin
Partington and his team from BFLS Architects,
formerly Hamiltons) Strata SE1 replaced an
abandoned 1960’s six storey office block on a
0.3 hectare site with the tallest and most striking
residential building in Central London at completion in
June 2010.
Planning Agent: DP9
Left: Strata SE1
Image © Brookfield Europe

South London Gallery


6a Architects
South London Gallery

The expansion of the South London Gallery designed


by 6a Architects more than doubles the area of the
original building and provides new gallery spaces,
a café, a flat for an artist in residence and a new
education building. The extension to the gallery is
made of three interventions dispersed around an
expanded site. Firstly, the neighbouring derelict house
at no. 67 has been refurbished to create a café on the
ground floor, exhibition spaces on the first floor and a
flat for an artist-in-residence on the second. Behind
the house a three-storey extension has been built to
create a double height room leading to a link back to
the gallery and through the new Fox Garden to the
Clore Education Studio.
Above: Clore Education Studio
Image © David Grandorge

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