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Elephant and Castle team wins BEX masterplanning award
16 June 2006
The Elephant and Castle development team secured a prestigious international masterplanning award on 8 June, at the Building Exchange symposium in Madrid.
The second place award was for Southwark Council's development framework for Elephant and Castle, which was adopted as supplementary planning guidance in February 2004 following an extensive public consultation in which 80% of respondents supported the plans.
Kura Perkins from the Elephant and Castle team received the award, thanking the council's professional consultant team that included Foster and Partners, Make Architects, planning consultants Tibbalds, Gehl Architects and Space Syntax.
The framework outlines ten main elements that together will put the heart back into the Elephant and Castle.
1.Removing the 1960s Heygate Estate and red shopping centre
2.Re-housing Heygate tenants locally in quality housing association homes
3.Rerouting the gyratory traffic system to give priority to public transport including the Cross River Tram
4.Extending the Walworth Road to create 75,000 m2 of new retail and leisure space
5.Using forgotten Victorian railway arches to create a vibrant market square
6.Developing four new open spaces
7.Creating a new civic square serving as a ground level public transport interchange
8.Providing 5,300 new and replacement homes
9.Constructing two landmark buildings to provide a central focus to this new town centre
10. Doing all this without increasing carbon emissions in the area
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