18 Meadow Row / Melbway House
Completed in 2014, Melbway House is a residential development of 19 homes including 3 apartments at social rents and 4 at intermediate rents managed by London & Quadrant.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | L&Q |
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18 Meadow Row / Melbway House
21 St Georges Road
5-9 Rockingham Street
Angel Lane (Manor Place)
Arch Street
BASE17
Blackfriars Circus
Borough Triangle
Borough Triangle
Brandon Street
Chatelain House
Clarson House
Crampton Street
Crossway Christian Centre
Cutler Apartments / Morant Court
Elephant Arcade
Elephant Park
Elephant Road / Castle Square
Elephant Road Crossing
Elephant Square
Garland Court
Harper Road / Harper Square
Heritage centre and library
Jewell Street
LSBU Development
Maldonado Walk
Manor Place Depot
Marlborough Close (Walk Elephant)
Muro Court
One the Elephant
Printworks
Rosa Parks House
Royal Road
Salvation Army HQ
Signal building
Skipton House
South Central
Spare Street / Hotel Elephant
Strata Tower
The Castle
The Ceramic Building
The Foundry
The Levers, Amelia Street
Town Centre
Townsend Street
Trafalgar Place
Two Fifty One
Uncle (Realstar Living)
Vantage Metro Central
Walworth Square
Walworth Town Hall
Wardroper House
21 St Georges Road
A new 89-room hotel which will replace the office buildings at 21 St Georges Road (currently used by BOLD Theatre on a temporary basis). The development also includes new office space; a cafe/restaurant and more public space at ground level.
| Status: | Planning |
| Developer: | Create REIT |
5-9 Rockingham Street
Alumno plans to build accommodation for up to 270 students. The development will have an active ground floor (possibly including a cafe) and open up a a new section of the Low Line.
| Status: | Planning |
| Developer: | Alumno |
Angel Lane (Manor Place)
A former council waste depot and Manor Place public baths have been redeveloped by Notting Hill Housing to create 270 new homes. As part of the development, a new street - Angel Lane - has been created next to the railway line (the Low Line). It connects Manor Place to Penrose Street. The scheme, which also preserves the historic facade of the old bath house, is almost complete and tenants have already moved into their new homes. Find out more
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | Notting Hill Housing |
Arch Street
This 100% affordable development, completed in May 2011, delivered all 52 homes at social or intermediate rents.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | L&Q |
BASE17
Working with Guinness Housing, this development from Hill has delivered 140 new homes, including 84 at social rents.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | Hill |
Blackfriars Circus
A mixed-use Barratt development set around two new public squares, comprising several buildings up to 27 storeys high. It created 336 new homes, including 79 affordable units at social or intermediate rents.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | Barratt |
Borough Triangle
Borough Triangle is a mixed-use development proposed by Berkeley. It will include new homes, office and retail space and a new public piazza. It will also open up another section of the Low Line . In the interim, the site is being used for the temporary food market, Mercato Metropolitano.
| Status: | Proposal |
| Developer: | Berkeley |
Borough Triangle
Borough Triangle is a mixed-use development proposed by Berkeley. It will include new homes, office and retail space and a new public piazza. It will also open up another section of the Low Line . In the interim, the site is being used for the temporary food market, Mercato Metropolitano.
| Status: | Proposal |
| Developer: | Berkeley |
Brandon Street
This London & Quadrant scheme was completed in 2012 with 18 homes at social rents including 4 family flats.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | L&Q |
Chatelain House
Chatelaine House will be repurposed as part of a mixed use development by Fabrix. The scheme includes student accommodation, 23 new homes for social rent; a community courtyard and a community kitchen.
| Status: | Planning |
| Developer: | Fabrix |
Clarson House
Completed in January 2013, this Wandle Housing development delivered all 103 homes at social or intermediate rents.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | Wandle Housing |
Crampton Street
This nine storey Oakmayne development exemplifies high quality, contemporary design. It includes mixed tenure accommodation with 44 homes at social or intermediate rents, and 15 commercial units.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | Oakmayne |
Crossway Christian Centre
A new two-storey development on Hampton Street which opened in April 2017. It hosts the United Reform Church as well as providing facilities for other members of the community.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | Southwark Council |
Cutler Apartments / Morant Court
A 100% affordable housing scheme from Family Mosaic which delivered 21 homes at social and intermediate rents.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | Family Mosaic |
Elephant Arcade
Elephant Arcade is a new shopping arcade at the foot of Perronet House. It's home to many of the traders formerly based at the Elephant and Castle shopping centre.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | Southwark Council |
Elephant Park
A major mixed-use development, including around 3,000 new homes (with Trafalgar Place), 50 new shops and restaurants and a brand new park right in the heart of the scheme. Including Trafalgar Place, 1,633 homes are already complete, under construction or have planning consent at Elephant Park, including 344 affordable homes.
| Status: | Under Construction |
| Developer: | Lendlease |
Elephant Road / Castle Square
Elephant Road is home to the first phase of the new town centre development, which consists of 373 new homes for rent; 272 student studios; a Sainsbury’s supermarket; a GymBox gym; a crèche and several restaurants. It also includes Castle Square, a new public square which is currently home to a temporary retail "pop-up" housing many of the traders formerly based in the shopping centre.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | Elephant & Castle Development UK Ltd |
Elephant Road Crossing
Elephant Road, which opens onto Castle Square, is a busy stretch of the Low Line with a number businesses operating from the arches. A new pedestrian crossing has been built across New Kent Road to help people reach Elephant Road and Castle Square safely from Rockingham Street.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | Southwark Council |
Elephant Square
TfL has reconfigured the road layout at the former northern roundabout, turning it into a peninsula and creating a new public square. In future, the square will include an improved entrance and ticket hall for the Northern Line tube station. Look out for the square’s new street food market, brought to you by local pop-up impresarios the Paperworks.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | Transport for London |
Garland Court
Built in 2005 by Southern Housing, this development delivered 19 homes at social or intermediate rents.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | Southern Housing |
Harper Road / Harper Square
This 100% affordable Family Mosaic Housing scheme completed in 2013 delivered 72 homes at social or intermediate rents, including 22 three/four bed units and 8 wheelchair accessible units.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | Family Mosaic |
Heritage centre and library
A new council facility delivered in partnership with Lendlease. As well as housing a library, the centre tells the story of Southwark, past and present, and exhibits artefacts from the borough’s heritage collection.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | Southwark Council |
Jewell Street
At the southernmost tip of the Elephant stretch of the Low Line, 17 railway arches have recently been refurbished and brought back into use for light industrial purposes. In the process, a new street, Jewell Street has been created.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | Durkan |
LSBU Development
London South Bank University is redeveloping its London Road building to provide refurbished and extended learning and teaching facilities. This will incorporate the Academy of Sport and will mean relocating the university library.
| Status: | Under Construction |
| Developer: | LSBU |
Maldonado Walk
A small street which runs alongside the railway from the Strata to Hampton Street. This stretch of the Low Line was originally known as Eagle Yard. In 2018 it was renamed in honour of Ecuadorian scientist Pedro Vicente Maldonado. The street's arches are home to a number of Latin American businesses and its new name gives recognition to the huge contribution that the Latin American community has made to this part of London.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | Southwark Council |
Manor Place Depot
Manor Place is a mixed-use development from Notting Hill. Built on the site of a former council waste depot and public baths, it includes 270 new homes, more than 100 of which are for social or intermediate rents. The new homes on the site of the depot are complete and work is continuing at the old bath house.
| Status: | Under Construction |
| Developer: | Notting Hill Housing |
Marlborough Close (Walk Elephant)
A new pathway along the Low Line, that opens up a route from Amelia Street through to Marlborough Close and the Newington estate. Conceived by the Walworth Society as part of the Walk Elephant initiative, this modest intervention (which removed a fence and created a small path) is a good example of how a small change can make a big difference. Find out more
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | Southwark Council |
Muro Court
This 2012 London & Quadrant scheme delivered 40 affordable homes at social or intermediate rents, including 6 four-bed units. It includes a community garden, leased and managed by Bankside Open Spaces Trust.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | L&Q |
One the Elephant
A landmark 37 storey residential development that includes 284 homes and cafes and retail on the ground floor.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | Lendlease |
Printworks
This nine storey development from First Base delivered 164 homes including 67 affordable units at social or intermediate rents, as well as ground floor commercial space for small businesses.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | First Base |
Rosa Parks House
A 100% affordable housing scheme from Family Mosaic which delivered 25 homes at social rents, and 4 at intermediate rents.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | Family Mosaic |
Royal Road
This Affinity Sutton Housing development delivered 76 homes at social rent and a further 20 at intermediate rents.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | Affinity Sutton |
Salvation Army HQ
The Salvation Army has moved its headquarters from Elephant and Castle to a new building in Denmark Hill. Rockwell, the owners of the building on Newington Causeway want to redevelop the site for hotel and office space and a new public square.
| Status: | Proposal |
| Developer: | Rockwell |
Signal building
A 22 storey residential development on Newington Causeway completed in 2014, comprising 38 residential units, including 11 at intermediate rents, and 366 sqm of commercial floorspace.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | Neobrand |
Skipton House
London and Regional Properties is consulting on revised plans for a mixed-use scheme, including new housing, at Skipton House
| Status: | Proposal |
| Developer: | London and Regional Properties |
South Central
Two highly contemporary buildings from Oakmayne, comprising 113 mixed tenure residential homes and seven commercial units on the ground floor. It includes 25 affordable homes at social or intermediate rents.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | Oakmayne |
Spare Street / Hotel Elephant
Spare Street is a new street created from a row of disused railway arches. Named after local artist, Austin Osman Spare, this stretch of the Low Line is home to not-for-profit arts and enterprise company, Hotel Elephant. The company packs a lot into its five arches, including hot-desks and coworking; events and meeting space; a gallery and the Sidecar Coffee Bar.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | Southwark Council |
Strata Tower
Famous for its rooftop turbines, this 43-storey tower delivered a mix of accommodation including 98 shared-ownership homes and commercial space on the ground floor.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | Brookfield |
The Castle
The Castle is a new Southwark Council leisure centre next to St Mary’s Churchyard. It includes a six lane, 25 metre swimming pool, sports hall and a fully equipped gym and indoor cycle studio.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | Southwark Council |
The Ceramic Building
A 25 storey tower on Newington Causeway, the Ceramic Building houses a 140-room hotel, retail space and 48 new flats including 16 affordable homes. The development has also created a new walking route along part of the Low Line, linking Newington Causeway to Tiverton Street and the Rockingham Estate.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | NB2 |
The Foundry
This Goldcrest development (marketed as the Walworth Collection) is on the site of an old iron foundry. It has 54 homes including 17 affordable units at social or intermediate rents.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | Goldcrest |
The Levers, Amelia Street
Next to the famous Tankard pub, this scheme, designed by local architects Alan Camp, delivered 55 homes including 20 affordable units at social or intermediate rents.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | Family Mosaic |
Town Centre
A new town centre is emerging at Elephant and Castle, with work now well underway to create a transformed environment for shoppers, retailers and residents, including an upgraded tube station and a cutting-edge new campus for UAL’s London College of Communication. Bringing much needed new housing to the area, the town centre will create nearly 1,000 new homes for rent. These will be 35 per cent affordable by habitable room, including 116 new, social rented homes (managed by Southwark Council or another registered provider) as well as three social rent equivalent units, all offered in priority to people living and working in Southwark.
| Status: | Under Construction |
| Developer: | Elephant & Castle Development UK Ltd |
Townsend Street
This London & Quadrant scheme is 100% affordable. Completed in 2012, all 37 homes, including 3 wheelchair units, were delivered at social rents.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | L&Q |
Trafalgar Place
Lendlease has completed Trafalgar Place, comprising 235 new homes and a community cafe adjacent to its Elephant Park site. It includes 54 homes at social and intermediate rents.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | Lendlease |
Two Fifty One
A mixed use development consisting of two buildings (41 and 8 storeys) designed by Allies & Morrison, as well as public realm improvements. The scheme has 335 residential units (65 affordable and 270 private) as well as commercial and restaurant/retail space.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | Oakmayne Properties |
Uncle (Realstar Living)
457 new homes delivered at Newington Butts. 278 of these have been marketed as Uncle apartments for private rent. At least 75 have been allocated to council tenants and 44 are being managed by Peabody as shared-ownership homes. The development also includes a new home for the Southwark Playhouse.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | Realstar |
Vantage Metro Central
Designed by Broadway Malyan and constructed by St George, Vantage Tower includes 20 shared ownership apartments.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | St George |
Walworth Square
Walworth Square is a new public space next to Elephant Park. It's home to the borough's new war memorial (the Southwark Memorial) and provides a wide open approach to the newly restored Walworth Town Hall.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | Southwark Council |
Walworth Town Hall
Walworth Town Hall was damaged by fire in 2013. Southwark Council worked with General Projects to restore the town hall buildings to bring them back into use as flexible workspace and community space. The town hall complex reopened in 2025.
| Status: | Under Construction |
| Developer: | Southwark Council |
Wardroper House
Completed in 2010, this London & Quadrant development consists of two five-storey blocks with 15 homes at social rents.
| Status: | Completed |
| Developer: | L&Q |