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Welcome to Southwark Southwark The official regeneration magazine of Southwark Council Editor Julie Mackintosh julie@3foxinternational.com Head of Sales George Haynes george@3foxinternational.com Managing Director Toby Fox toby@3foxinternational.com Design Wire www.wiredesign.com Printed by Wyndeham Grange Images Southwark Council, Wire Design, Land Securities, BL Canada Quays, Jody Kingzett, Sellar Property Group, More London, Gross Max, Make, Shangri-la Hotels, Fashion and Textile Museum, Dan Macarrie for Levitt Bernstein, Tate Modern, DIVE Architects, Southwark Playhouse, Broadway Malayan, Patrick Baldwin, Unicorn Theatre. For Southwark Council Chiltern House Portland Street London SE17 2ES Communications Manager Rachel Fox rachel.fox@southwark.gov.uk Publisher
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Southwark Issue Three
Welcome to the third issue of Southwark, Southwark Council’s official regeneration magazine. Southwark stretches from the world famous South Bank to leafy Dulwich and encompassing Bermondsey, Walworth, Peckham and the Rotherhithe Peninsula. Its an enviable central London location and we have a development programme to match, arguably the most exciting and diverse in the country: from the £1.5 billion Elephant and Castle scheme (pages 42 to 54) and the redevelopment of the Aylesbury Estate (pages 36 to 39), to the mixeduse transformation planned for Canada Water and the 200,000 square metre Bermondsey Spa (pages 16 to 23), this is a borough committed to creating a better life for its residents. With 40 per cent of Southwark covered by current or planned regeneration programmes, there are plenty of opportunities available to the right developers and other partners. Over the last decade, the borough has gone from strength to strength; however much work remains to be done to combat the high levels of unemployment, benefit dependency, ill health and crime and the low educational attainment that still remain in some areas. We will achieve this, in part, through successful regeneration (see an indepth feature on Southwark Council’s programme on pages 16 to 23), but also by attracting businesses here. Excellent transport links and proximity to the City make Southwark the perfect business location. This process is well under way, most notably through More London and Bankside 123 (pages 24 to 27), as well as several other major schemes at various stages of completion.
With its rich cultural and leisure offer (think Tate Modern, the Design Museum and the Southwark Playhouse), the borough has an atmosphere that purpose-built developments in other parts of the capital just cannot match. With the example of our renowned Borough Market, we take a look at how the cultural experience can help in the regeneration process (pages 28 to 31). Place-making architecture is also raising Southwark’s profile. Southwark Council is committed to bringing to the borough the most innovative and stimulating buildings in Britain. London Bridge Tower will be Europe’s tallest on its scheduled completion in 2009. Its architect Renzo Piano discusses his views on The Shard and Southwark on pages 32 and 33. Southwark magazine is distributed throughout the UK regeneration industry. Let us know what you think of the issues covered at www.southwark.gov.uk or www.southwarkmagazine.com. Issue four will be published this summer. Until then... Paul Evans Director of Regeneration Southwark Council
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