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Elephant & Castle redevelopment: displaced traders with no relocation
Despite years of promises by developers Delancey and over year after initial allocation of relocation units for displaced traders at Elephant and Castle by the developers, Southwark Council and Tree Shepherd, to this day around 40 small independent businesses still...
TO MARKET, TO MARKET – New Report!
To Market, To Market: Asset Managers in the UK Retail Sector investigates the financial powers behind Elephant and Castle’s remarkable transformation. The area’s beloved shopping centre was demolished in 2020 and since then, many of its traders have faced hardship,...
Coming together… POP Report released!
We are are very pleased to share our newest report, Protect Our Places: Coming together to demand more racially-just urban planning in London. In this report, we reflect on our POP coalition work since 2023. Protect Our Places brings together 11...
POP response to GLA Consultation: Towards a New London Plan
In our response to the GLA consultation on the next London Plan, Protect Our Places makes clear that London needs a plan for Londoners, not for developers. The POP response to the GLA Consultation ('Towards a New London Plan'), builds on our collective knowledge and...
Know Your Rights Training with Southwark Law Centre
Jed Holloway (Solicitor, Planning Voice, Southwark Law Centre) joined Protect Our Places (POP) on 28 May 2025 for a 'Know Your Rights' training for market traders and community members. This training focused on what rights market traders and local, independent...
‘Relocation Impact Assessment’: Latin Elephant’s latest report
This report aims to collect quantitative and qualitative data regarding the traders in the context of regeneration in Elephant & Castle at four years of the relocation process. We hope that this research will create awareness and visibility around the connection...
POP Evidence Informs New London Assembly Report on Social Value
The London Assembly Planning and Regeneration Committee recently published a report highlighting that existing social value, provided by and embedded within London’s existing places and spaces (e.g., in arch-based businesses and markets), is still too often neglected...
POP Objection to Berkeley Homes Aylesham Centre Redevelopment
URGENT UPDATE FROM AYLESHAM COMMUNITY ACTION: The Aylesham Centre Planning Committee is taking place on Tuesday July 15 at 6:30pm at Southwark Council’s office (160 Tooley St, London SE1 2QH). There will be room for the public in the committee room. We need to show...
Pro-bono Commercial Lease Workshop with Landmark Chambers
About the workshop Barristers Alex Shattock and Harley Ronan (Landmark Chambers) joined Protect Our Places (POP) coalition members for a 3 June 2024 legal workshop on planning consultations and commercial leases. The pro-bono commercial lease workshop was co-organised...
‘Migrant and Ethnic Economies in Times of Crisis’ – new report
'Migrant and Ethnic Economies in Times of Crisis: Regeneration, COVID, Brexit and Cost of Living' considers how traders and small businesses in Elephant and Castle have been impacted by four successive and overlapping yet distinct crises. It highlights the ways in...
Inhabiting Spaces: Artists Paola Bascón and Amalia Pica invite to reflect on art, society and change
Latin Elephant continues the successful public programme in partnership with Gasworks, South London Gallery and in collaboration with Tate. Supported by the Arts Council England, the programme is enabling access and increase participation in the arts by the...
