The Heygate Estate in Elephant & Castle, SE1, has been renamed Elephant Park.
Developer Lend Lease said the name reflects the fact that the regenerated site will house central London’s largest new park for 70 years. It will ask local residents to come forward with suggestions for the names of the new buildings, streets and parks which will be built on Elephant Park.
Over the next 15 years, Lend Lease and Southwark council’s regeneration of Elephant & Castle will create nearly 3,000 new homes as well as 160,000 sq ft of shops.
Homes in the first phase of the Heygate masterplan will go on sale to the public from early April.
Pascal Mittermaier, Lend Lease’s project director for Elephant & Castle, said: “Elephant & Castle is fast becoming a global exemplar for the delivery of sustainable urban regeneration. A neglected area in the centre of a leading world city is being transformed into one of the most desirable places to live in London, comprising a revitalised retail destination of both restaurants and shops and characterised by its green open spaces which put residents’ health and wellbeing at the heart of project.”
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