Lendlease to launch retail development at Elephant Park
Project management company Lendlease has announced plans for a retail and restaurant development at Elephant Park in south London.
The 16 units total 37,000 sq ft and are in two areas, Ash Avenue and New Kent Road and Chatteris Quarter. Ash Avenue will focus mainly on restaurants, backing onto a green space providing opportunity for al fresco dining. New Kent Road and Chatteries Quarter, will be a retail space, with a focus on health, fitness and wellbeing.
Lendlease will also be getting in direct contact with local businesses to provide them with various opportunities with assistance available through the company’s retail initiative and concessionary rents and business support available to companies who qualify.
Guy Thomas, head of retail, Lendlease, said: “Elephant Park will be a thriving community in central London; a place where people want to live, build futures, work and visit; and one that has a sustainable long-term future because it reflects, and adds to the Elephant and Castle community and Southwark more widely. The retail, F&B and leisure offer of Phase Two will play a key role in fulfilling this by delivering a balanced mix of independent operators from the local area and brands with a wider footprint in London.
“Working closely with Southwark Borough Council, we are ensuring the space is affordable, and therefore accessible, to local businesses, whilst also engaging with established operators from outside Southwark that fit with Elephant Park.”
The company will host an open day at the site on 10 July, in partnership with South Borough Council.
