24 Apr 2012
3 Apr 2012
Regenerating Elephant & Castle
Major Elephant scheme plans lodged
http://www.egi.co.uk/
By Nick Whitten | Leisure | Retail | Residential | 02-04-2012 | 17:40
Lend Lease has lodged a planning application for its £1.5bn regeneration of Elephant & Castle.
An outline planning application has been submitted to Southwark council today for a 2,500-home scheme on the site of the Heygate Estate.The scheme also includes shops, restaurants, community facilities and London's biggest new park in 70 years.
Lend Lease's EMEA managing director for development, Mark Dickinson, said: "Elephant &
Castle is one of Europe's most exciting regeneration projects. London desperately needs new homes and Lend Lease is proud to be playing a part in helping the capital to meet the growing demand."
Southwark council's cabinet member for regeneration, Fiona Colley, said: "We welcome the
planning application, which will be considered by the council's planning committee, making
further steps towards the long-awaited vision for the area that residents look forward to seeing become a reality."
The first phase of construction is expected to begin in 2013, subject to planning permission being granted.
12 Mar 2012
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"There are failed estates, but this is not of them."
T. Tinker 2011 - Heygate estate original architect
10 Sept 2011
boundless (London, 2011)
video, digital photographs and LCD screens
The practice's focus is placed on analysing our perceptions of housing estates, with a ground basis of being in a boundless journey: an unconfined exploration unrestricted to standards and pre-established values. The notoriously infamous council estate in South London, the Heygate Estate, is currently emptied and due for demolition and became the location where my journeys took place. These were recorded using film and photography and also revealed as light trails, a metaphorical depiction of my own explorations and presence in the barren site, where once thousands lived and called it home. Boundaries can be physical, imaginary, and representational, like the Prime Meridian line that divides the world in half, and makes one wonder whether in fact it actually represents anything. At times, boundaries can have an implicit quality, like the separation of public and private in certain un-gated properties. All these boundaries delineate the city and its citizens and how one perceives the other. Bearing in mind the notion of navigating the borderlines, how can this be expressed and experienced in art form? The answer comes from this experimentation using film and photography in a journey of discovery and questions.
The practice's focus is placed on analysing our perceptions of housing estates, with a ground basis of being in a boundless journey: an unconfined exploration unrestricted to standards and pre-established values. The notoriously infamous council estate in South London, the Heygate Estate, is currently emptied and due for demolition and became the location where my journeys took place. These were recorded using film and photography and also revealed as light trails, a metaphorical depiction of my own explorations and presence in the barren site, where once thousands lived and called it home. Boundaries can be physical, imaginary, and representational, like the Prime Meridian line that divides the world in half, and makes one wonder whether in fact it actually represents anything. At times, boundaries can have an implicit quality, like the separation of public and private in certain un-gated properties. All these boundaries delineate the city and its citizens and how one perceives the other. Bearing in mind the notion of navigating the borderlines, how can this be expressed and experienced in art form? The answer comes from this experimentation using film and photography in a journey of discovery and questions.
28 Aug 2011
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