Elephant and Castle Town Centre and Elephant Park

Elephant Park

Elephant Park is a mixed-use development being built by Lendlease, and is due to be completed in 2025. It will create a major new central London park and around 3,000 new homes, including the recently completed Trafalgar Place, South Gardens and West Grove.

The first part of the park is already open. Work is progressing on the next phase of the development, which will provide around 50 new shops, restaurants and cafes.

The development is retaining over 100 mature trees on site as well as planting hundreds of new ones. Lendlease is a participant in the Climate Positive Development Programme, which means Elephant Park will be climate positive.

The scheme also includes a combined heat and power plant, the Energy Hub, to deliver net zero-carbon heating and hot water to all the new homes.

Find out more on the Elephant Park website.

For a detailed background behind this project, see our Elephant Park development background page.

You can also visit the Lendlease website for more information on the Elephant Park project.

Elephant and Castle Town Centre

The new Elephant and Castle town centre is being built by Delancey. This is a phased, mixed-use redevelopment of the existing Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre (East site) and London College of Communication (West site) sites.

The Town Centre will deliver a thriving new zone 1 destination, which will become a focal point for the local community. It will include:

• a range of high street and independent retailers 
• enhanced restaurant and leisure opportunities  
• a new cutting-edge university campus for UAL's London College of Communication

Plans also include 979 new homes for the rental market, on a site where none currently exist. Thirty-five per cent of these will be affordable, including 116 social rented homes managed by us or another registered provider. These will be offered in priority to people living and working in Southwark.

In October 2015 and May 2017, our cabinet considered reports on the town centre regeneration. You can download these reports below.

Elephant and Castle Place-Making: The Next Step - October 2015

Report May 2017 - LINK TO MODERNGOV BROKEN

We carried out an equalities analysis of the shopping centre. Find out more on our page about the Elephant and Castle shopping centre equalities analysis.

A formal planning application was submitted in October 2016. You can view the full planning application by visiting our online Planning Register and searching with the reference 16/AP/4458.

Find out more on the Elephant and Castle Town Centre website. You can also visit the Delancey website for more details of the Elephant and Castle Town Centre project.

Further information

Visit the website for the Elephant and Castle Partnership for details and regular updates on progress. The website has an interactive map that shows all the regeneration projects in the neighbourhood.