Elephant & Castle Early Housing Sites

Client - London Borough of Southwark


The Elephant & Castle regeneration involves the redevelopment of the 1100 home Heygate Estate. With the Council we identified potential sites for replacement housing.

Tibbalds tested design capacities and secured the allocation of 15 Early Housing sites in the Southwark Plan.

Quality was considered crucial, so the Council created a panel of architects, selected for their creative design approach and potential to collaborate with residents. We advised on a series of mini-competitions for selecting the
architect for each site and prepared a design brief setting out the planning and design requirements and aspirations.

Our assessment of competition submissions informed each selection panel. We also provided training to the volunteer tenant representatives for selection panels.

Finally, we prepared an overarching Planning Statement to accompany the planning applications for each
of the sites.
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