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What next after High Court overturns Aylesbury planning decision?
Amendment to outline planning permission quashed
Giant Elephant Park office block gets go-ahead
Lendlease appeal against H1 planning refusal succeeds
Aylesbury estate legal battle goes to the High Court
Latest phase of troubled regeneration triggers legal challenge to Aylesbury Outline Planning Permission
Lendlease row back on Elephant Park health hub commitments.
Proposed lease and size of health hub left open
Southwark turns blind eye to social rent homes let at market-related rents
Council fails to enforce social housing requirement
Southwark developments that fail to deliver real social rent
Social rent of £295.50 challenged by Southwark Law Centre
Ombudsman rejects affordable housing complaint
Evidence of unaudited schemes ignored
Lendlease’s Elephant office block rejected.
Objectors call on Mayor to respect planning committee'sdecision.
Elephant Park - Lendlease's final squeeze
Giant office block recommended for approval
Elephant Park - homes dumped for offices
Lendlease squeezes itself an extra plot out of Heygate redevelopment
Only one in ten new homes in Southwark is social rented
Southwark loses 91 social rented homes in 2021
Aylesbury Update: cost of leaseholder buy-outs leaps
Southwark is also set to 'update' development contract with Notting Hill Genesis.
Elephant traders without new premises one year after shopping centre closes
Traders' deputation seeks fair treatment from developers; urges Southwark Council to act.
Lendlease's final plot for Elephant Park - offices, not homes
Lendlease seeks to squeeze one final drop out of Southwark's regeneration of the Heygate estate.
Former Council leader glides through Southwark's revolving doors
After ten years of being wined and dined by Heygate developer Lendlease's lobbying agent, our council leader has just taken up a job with them.
Legal battle for the Elephant and Castle shopping centre ends
Final decision from the Appeal Court goes Delancey's way
Southwark rips up Aylesbury Area Action Plan
Council suddenly decides to rip up 182-page planning guidance document for the Aylesbury regeneration without any consultation.
Action on Southwark's empty homes
Day of action to highlight borough's estimated 2,300 empty homes
Appeal against Elephant Shopping Centre development tomorrow
Challenge against High Court on 16 and 17 March.
Social Rent or Affordable Rent?
Five years on from Ombudsman's report the question mark remains.
Wood Dene Protest against empty homes
Peckham demo to highlight the plight of the homeless
No room for social rent at Pocket Living on the Old Kent Road
100% affordable housing, zero social rent, zero family housing
Shopping Centre closes, but campaign for traders continues
Protesters mark the final day for Elephant shopping centre
The Elephant traders who face the end without new homes
Only 40 traders have 'found new premises' as centre closure looms
Shopping Centre traders propose new stalls for the Elephant
Traders appeal to Mayor Sadiq Khan for his support
Southwark responds to shopping centre campaigners
Council put on defensive by fierce criticism
The shopping centre traders expelled by regeneration
University of the Arts ignores traders' plight
Campaigners demand that UAL withdraws from shopping centre development.
Campaigners respond to University of the Art's Black Lives Matter statement.
Aylesbury estate regeneration to have new council homes
Notting Hill Genesis to receive £210m bailout from Southwark
Old Kent Rd scheme faces loss of affordable housing
Berkeley Homes threatens to reduce affordable housing at Malt Street
The harsh reality of relocation for shopping centre traders
Law centre survey shows that nearly half of traders have nowhere to go
Shopping centre CPO - Southwark ploughs on regardless
Southwark exercises CPO powers to clear E&C shopping centre site for Delancey
Council to remove last shopping centre traders using CPO powers
Southwark bails out Delancey by purchasing E&C shopping centre and LCC in order to override traders' and residents' legal rights.
Elephant Park - planning committee misled?
Lendlease fails to declare public funding for affordable housing
Elephant Park - final phase, final windfall for Lendlease
Last phase of Heygate regeneration set for approval with increase in number of homes but no increase in affordable.
The Biscuit Factory is back
Sadiq gives the Duke of Westminster a second chance
Shopping centre traders demand fair play
Elephant traders to send deputation to Southwark Council Assembly
Elephant traders still homeless
Survey shows two-thirds of current traders have nowhere to go.
High Court hearing looms for Elephant shopping centre
Legal challenge goes to High Court next week
Canada Water regeneration finally up for approval
15 hectares of public land, 4000 new homes but affordable housing policy requirements not met.
Elephant Park MP5 - the final chapter
Final phase of Heygate redevelopment proposes increase in homes, but with decrease in affordable
Why we're challenging the Elephant & Castle redevelopment plans in court
Southwark Council - demolishing council homes, generating better people
Verney Rd - yet another Old Kent Rd development
Third large application in a month goes to committee
Delays and Delancey
Delancey looks to escape blame for its own faults
Malt Street - the next big Old Kent Road development
Big questions for Berkeley Homes still unanswered
Southernwood Retail Park
Third of big four Old Kent Rd developments goes to committee
Delancey deals double blow to shopping centre traders
Tesco leaves, bingo hall boarded up
No room for traders in the new Elephant
Shopping centre traders left out in the cold
Elephant shopping centre plans - judicial review sought
Plans are afoot to challenge Southwark's planning consent in court.
2019 - New Year's Resolutions
Ten things Southwark Council should do in 2019
Southwark gives Delancey a helping hand
Delancey gets comforting letter after missing legal agreement deadline
E&C shopping centre - Delancey stumbles after Mayor's approval
A week of mixed fortunes for developer
Elephant shopping centre - decision day
Mayor's verdict due on Monday
Castle Square - Delancey responds
Small progress but still not enough on traders' temporary premises
11000 new council homes: figures show loss rather than gain
Southwark demolishing and selling off council homes faster than it's building them
Elephant Shopping Centre - traders and campaigners step-up the fight
Planning approval set to face legal challenge, while traders object to insufficient temporary premises
Ruby Triangle
First major Old Kent Road application goes to committee
Grosvenor takes the biscuit factory
Bermondsey's Biscuit Factory redevelopment falls well short of policy requirements
Third time lucky
E&C shopping centre application narrowly approved on developer Delancey's third attempt
Delancey's subsidised profit
GLA public funds are subsidising offshore Elephant & Castle Delancey's profit.
Shopping Centre redevelopment - Delancey tries again
Developer Delancey returns for the third time.
Council leader Peter John - the alternative facts
Council leader continues to peddle untruths about affordable housing delivery.
Elephant & Castle shopping centre update
Revised planning application still falls well short of policy requirements
A Signal embarrassment
Southwark pays out instead of enforcing planning conditions
Aylesbury CPO- what's really happened
Beyond the spin of Southwark Council's press office
Blackfriars affordable housing circus
£10m wasted buying new pseudo-council homes that should have been provided as social rent anyway
Lendlease banks £113m profit from 'unviable' joint venture with Southwark
Council's share of the bumper profit from its regeneration partner is a pitiful £12m
Traders Betrayed
Southwark's forgotten promises to E&C shopping centre traders
Get Living London - get lost HMRC
How Delancey continues to exploit the Elephant and avoid the taxman
Delancey's dirty tricks
Market Square earmarked for displaced shopping centre traders disappears
Aylesbury CPO appeal - a grounded defence
Secretary of State delivers on promise to 'robustly defend' his decision against Southwark's appeal
Aylesbury: Southwark finally granted leave to appeal CPO decision.
Council succeeds at second attempt
More boroughs neglect social housing delivery
More boroughs found allowing developers to substitute affordable rent for social rent
Shopping Centre stitch-up - Delancey submits planning application
979 new homes, but no social rented. No room for current shop-keepers
Southwark's lost section 106 social housing
Ombudsman finds Council doesn't know how much social housing it's getting from developers
Heygate profit - north of the facts
Council leader Peter John claims Heygate deal will provide Council with 'north of £100m profit'
Going nowhere in a hurry
Shopping Centre's major leaseholder says he's staying put
Affordable housing loopholes in Old Kent Road plan
Loopholes in draft Old Kent Rd planning policy offer numerous exploits for developers
Elephant Park - a populist narrative
Overseas investors and the Heygate estate
Aylesbury Crowdfunding kicks off to successful start
Launch of our campaign to fight the Council's appeal of Aylesbury CPO decision raises over £2000 in first week
Scrutiny fails - Southwark submits grounds of appeal
Council submits grounds of appeal while Scrutiny Committee rejects call for legal challenge to be reconsidered
CPO legal challenge called in for scrutiny
Southwark's decision to challenge the Secretary of State's CPO decision has been called in by its Overview & Scrutiny Committee
Heygate nominated for Stirling Prize
First completed phase of Heygate regeneration nominated for architecture award
Southwark to appeal against lost CPO decision
Council to mount legal challenge against the Secretary of State
Victory for Aylesbury Leaseholders
Government blocks compulsory purchase order issued by Southwark Council on Aylesbury estate leaseholders.
Opportunity knocks down the Old Kent Road
Old Kent Road declared as an 'Opportunity Area' and follows the same route as Elephant & Castle regeneration.
Restricted Access - Elephant Park
New Heygate estate green space will be smaller than expected and privately managed.
At fault and unjust - Southwark slammed by Ombudsman
Southwark Council blasted by Ombudsman for failing to monitor delivery of affordable housing.
Dulwich Hamlet - unviable but profitable
This is what happens when your local football club gets taken over by a property developer.
No profit for Southwark
The true value of the Heygate regeneration
Southwark in bottom 3 boroughs for affordable housing delivery
GLA figures confirm our fears that Southwark is not really concerned about local housing need.
Lendlease says jump - Southwark jumps
Yet again Southwark dances to the tune of Lendlease's demands at Elephant & Castle.
Camberwell Chic
A trip down the Camberwell Road looking at the all the unaffordable private developments that have been approved.
Affordable housing - a mirage wrapped in an illusion
Southwark Council responds to our complaint about non-delivery of affordable housing by claming that there's nothing to see here - move on!
Town hall sell off - price on application
Southwark Councillors caught selling off the family silver yet again.
Completing london's clearances
David Cameron's estate clearance policies endorsed by our own Council.
Heygate sell-off: How much are we getting?
More doubts arise over how much (if anything) Southwark Council will receive from its sale of the Heygate estate to Lendlease.
CPO powers to be used on shopping centre traders
Southwark Council prepares yet again to use its statutory CPO powers to get rid of existing communities to further its regeneration objectives.
Notting Hill comes clean on rents
No more doubt about the question of what rent levels will be charged in the so-called 'social housing' replacements on the Aylesbury estate.
Southwark backs down over 'social' housing definitions
New evidence shows that Southwark doesn't even care if social rented housing is provided at 80% market rents.
We're all on the list
Southwark Council seeks to re-designate its council estates as brownfield land - i.e. ripe for redevelopment.
Councillor John promises to reveal all
Council leader promises to reveal confidential figures that Lendlease used to reduce affordable housing on the Heygate estate redevelopment but we won't hold our breath.
Completing the masterplan - Shopping centre traders to be booted out
Finally it has become clear that existing traders in E&C shopping centre are not to be included in the developer's plans to rebuild the shopping centre.
Heygate viability assessment finally revealed
After a three-year court battle Southwark Council is finally ordered to reveal the confidential documents used to reduce Lendlease's affordable housing contributions in its redevelopment of the Heygate estate.
£63m public money to build 274 private homes
All eyes have been on Southwark Council's controversial redevlopment of the Heygate estate and its low-profile acquisition of the London Park Hotel site has gone un-noticed - until now..
Aylesbury CPO Inquiry - Extra Time
Southwark Council's unequitable decision to force Aylesbury estate Leaseholders out of their homes has met with increased resistance.
Aylesbury CPO Inquiry - Into the Lion's Den
Southwark Council has chosen to take Aylesbury estate Leaseholders to court instead of negotiating with them. They surely didn't expect the level of resistance that they have been met with.
Aylesbury Applications Approved
Southwark's planning committee battons down the hatches and unanimously approves controversial Aylesbury estate regeneration despite serious concerns raised by objectors.
Aylesbury redevelopment - decision day
Southwark Labour Councillors set to dutifuly fall in to line to approve controversial Aylesbury estate redevelopment.
Manifesto for the destruction of council estates
Southwark Labour Council contributes an entire chapter to the Tories' new manifesto for the demolition of council estates.
Stand up for more social housing (at 80% market rent)
Southwark Council's redevelopment partner for the regeneration of the Aylesbury estate is one of the core drivers behind the Tories' new re-classification of social rent levels.
Peabody's philanthropic glass towers - 0% social housing
What kind of housing association abandons the concept of social rented housing?
Council Housing - going up or coming down?
Southwark's commitment to social rented housing has all but been revealed.
Council sells council homes to build new ('social and private') 'council' homes
Southwark Council begs developers to come and build in the borough - whatever! just build something! We are open for business!
Southwark fails to deliver
Southwark continues to fight tooth-and-nail against publication of the confidential figures used by Lendlease to reduce the affordable housing offer on the redeveloped Heygate estate.
Aylesbury estate planning applications - 934 social rented homes to be lost
Finally all becomes clear as the first phase of the Aylesbury estate redevelopment is submitted. How many social rented homes? Will they be social rent or 80% market rent?
Southwark's gamekeepers turned poachers
It appears that there is a revolving door between Southwark Councillors and property developers and their lobbyists.
MIPIM, Southwark and its 11000 new 'private and social' council homes
When Southwark goes cap in hand to a property developers' Jamboree you need to ask what kind of homes they are begging the developers to build.
Southwark gets its reward
Whose regeneration?
Let's talk about... Peter's promises
What exactly is going on with these ambitious promises of 11,000 new council homes?
Elephant Traders - not in the pink
Elephant and Castle shopping Centre traders were supposed to be relocated as part of the regeneration but this is now in doubt.
Setting the record straight
Southwark fights back against claims that its deal with Lendlease will leave it out of pocket.
Notting Hill Housing Trust - Quids in with Boris
Notting Hill Housing Trust is Southwark's selected development partner for the Aylesbury estate regeneration but its CEO is the brainchild of the Tories' policy of abolishing social rented housing.
mind the (Elephantine) gap
Is Southwark really going to subsidise the redevelopment of Elephant and Castle's transport networks when this was supposed to be paid for by developers?
Southwark's mysterious estate renewal zone
Has Notting Hill Genesis really lobbied the Council to reduce its CIL contributions for the Aylesbury estate redevelopment?
PRS - (Private Rip-off Sector)
Delancey cashes in on the the PRS (private rented sector) BTR (Build to Rent) bollocks.
Where there's bronze there's brass
Heygate Pyramid scheme set to divide opinion one way or the other.
London Assembly investigates refurbishment vs demolition
Is demolishing council estates always better than refurbishing them?
Aylesbury estate - 42 more residents face Compulsory Purchase
More CPO acquisitions on the Aylesbury estate - who are the new homes being built for then?
Notting Hill no social Housing Trust
Southwark's new development partner for the Aylsebury estate regeneration exposes their true colours.
Aylesbury leaseholder fights 'incestuous' valuations
This is the other side of the estate 'regeneration' process that rarely gets seen.
Another Aylesbury leaseholder goes to lands tribunal
Southwark Council is yet again taking Aylesbury estate residents to court who don't want to leave their homes and accept a pittance in return.
Southwark's rogue landlords - enforcement or endorsement?
Southwark has one rule for leaseholders who they're taking to court and a different rule for all the others.
Heygate FOI appeal decision - Tribunal delivers verdict
Finally we have a verdict after 3 years of battling to get Southwark to release 'confidential' documents justifying Lendlease's reduction of affordable housing on the redeveloped Heygate estate.
The Elephant goes offshore
Developer Delancey registers its Elephant & Castle land holdings offshore
The Elephant's new Ivory Towers
All the shiny new towers at Elephant and Castle and how they address local housing need.
Middlemen on the make
Mission Possible - bringing viability assessments out of the dark
Heygate Tribunal Hearing Extended
Heygate Viability Figures Tribunal Appeal
D'One at the Elephant
Stack em high - 1,000 homes on the shopping centre site?
Kim Humphreys - exit stage left, enter stage right
Heygate pyramid proposed – pharaoh included?
Southwark sends in the Heavies
The end for the last Heygate residents
Oakmayne vs Ministry of Sound - Round 198
Lean, Clean and Green but a bit Contradictory
Something Sinister?
Here and Now
Towering Disgrace
The Elephant - Sold on and Sold out
How to avoid providing affordable housing - a guide for developers
Heygate Figures must be Revealed - Information Commissioner
Heygate leaseholders forced to sell their homes - CPO approved
Regeneration branded 'miserable failure' at CPO Public Inquiry
A little bit of Shoreditch coming to the Elephant?
The Heygate Diaspora
Peter's Denial
Hoarding the Elephant
Pink Shopping Centre Blues
Objectors excluded from sell-out Heygate hearing
Will the Planning Committee see sense?
Heygate Application - Will objectors get a fair hearing?
Has Southwark sold the Elephant short?
East Walworth by-election - the result
It's all happening now
How green will the new Heygate be?
Fairer Future - Delivering our Promises
Neo Elephant - social tenants not welcome
Southwark Council rolled over by Lend Lease - again!
Heygate Cinema Celebrates Opening Night
Affordable Housing - Can it get any worse?
London's largest new private park in 70 years
It's all about Financial Viability
Environmental Impact Understatement
How low can you go?
How much affordable housing are we getting?
