• Working With Local Business And The Community
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• Heygate Programme
• Housing
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• Business at Elephant and Castle today
• How We Work With Local Business
• Promoting the shopping centre
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Supporting businesses and improving the local trading environment is one of the most important aspects of the Elephant and Castle regeneration programme.

Southwark Council is proud of the diverse and unusual range of shops in the area, and want to assist businesses trading in the area to take advantage of the range of opportunities that regeneration will create.

We have adopted a regeneration plan that will create five times the current amount of retail and leisure space, and we have rejected a ‘Bluewater’ development model that would favour multinational businesses. Instead an open-streets approach is being pursued that will be more able to nurture small/medium sized independent businesses.

Elephant and Castle businesses should benefit from local people spending money in this area, instead of spending 90%* of it elsewhere (Roget Tym and partners study 2002). This will make Elephant and Castle more prosperous by creating more local jobs and encouraging local investment, which will benefit local people.