Elephant Park, London SE1 & SE17

Elephant Park is an award-winning central London development offering an extensive collection of contemporary apartments and houses amidst terrific green spaces. Covered by postcodes SE1 & SE17, the neighbourhood is part of the London Borough of Southwark.

Centred around a two-acre park, this south London district is part of a larger regeneration programme delivering a new town centre for Elephant and Castle. The project includes new housing, transport infrastructure, a public realm, educational, leisure and hospitality facilities. At the heart of it is the new shopping centre and the new campus for the London College of Communication, part of the UAL.

Early phases of the Elephant Park development include Trafalgar Place (completed 2015) and One the Elephant (completed 2016). These two distinctive, contemporary residential schemes are by the same developer Lendlease. 

South Gardens, West Grove, West Grove Square, East Grove, Park Central West, Park Central East and Park & Sayer are individual phases of Elephant Park.

The Elephant & Castle regeneration is one of 18 projects from across the world chosen to be part of the Climate Positive Development Programme. The neighbourhood is planned with emphasis on sustainable construction, energy-efficient buildings and homes, new and biodiverse parks and gardens and improved public transport and cycle network. 

South Gardens Elephant Park

South Gardens and West Grove apartments are set within a mix of mid-rise mansion blocks and towers. There are studios, one, two, there bedroom apartments and penthouses featuring extensive glazing and contemporary interiors which all extend onto large private terraces or balconies.

South Gardens provides 24-hour concierge services, access to a residents’ only meeting room and terrace with far-reaching city views, as well as entry to a private gymnasium. Many units overlook or have direct access to one of three residents’ landscaped courtyards.

The scheme won the Housing Design Award 2018, the only award promoted by all 5 major professional institutions – RICS, RIBA, RPTI, Landscape Institute and Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists. 'South Gardens creates accessible, useful, and beautiful shared ground-level courtyards and upper floor roof terraces where residents can both feel a sense of ownership of their environment and engender a sense of community. These are augmented by generous private insets, projecting and bay balconies, loggias, gardens, and terraces. Spaces for a variety of activities are provided, from social gatherings between neighbours to secluded niches set within planting for quiet contemplation. These spaces consist of an array of plant layers from large trees down through to a mid-canopy layer of small fruiting trees and shrubs to a flowering herbaceous border and areas of floral lawn. There is a roof-level Grow Garden where residents can grow their own plants and vegetables.'

Elephant Park South Gardens is home to the Futurehome scheme of ultra-low energy living compliant with Passivhaus Institute’s standards. Futurehome neighbourhood comprises 15 townhouses set along Wansey Street.

West Grove Elephant Park 

West Grove is the second phase of the development which has 593 homes in a variety of sizes set within two tall buildings and a series of mansions blocks.

Orchard Point, a 19-storey tower, is the tallest building within this phase and Orchard Garden Terrace will house a number of ground-floor shops. Selected apartments have allocated parking with electric charging points.

Park Central West & Park Central East

Park Central West and Park Central East form the third phase of this regeneration project. Located along New Kent Road, it comprises five buildings including a 24-storey tower block. Buildings are linked by a podium reserved for residential amenities (24-hour concierge, lounge and cafe, resident's room and gym) and retail. The scheme was completed in July 2021 and won 2023 RIBA London award as a 'vibrant welcoming place with good-quality homes accessible to a wide range of people’.

Park & Sayer

Park & Sayer, a major mixed-use addition to Elephant Park, launched in November 2020. Set next to the new park, the scheme delivers over 400 new homes, including private sale tenures. Designed by Arney Fender Katsalidis Architects, it features a resident’s gym, lounge and workspace, business suite with elevated garden and exercise space, resident’s 24^th floor sky lounge with dining room and 360-degree roof terraces, 24-hour concierge and cycle storage. 

Elephant Park main property features:

• Balcony or terrace

• Wood flooring

• Underfloor heating

• Large glazing

• Dual aspect views

• Comfort cooling

• 24hr concierge

• Residents' lobby & meeting room

• Resident’s gym

• Secure cycle storage

• Access to private gardens

• Nearby new park, Elephant Park

• Walking to Elephant & Castle Underground and Rail, Travel Zone 1

Elephant Park local area

Located just south of the River Thames and a short walk from Waterloo and Southbank, Elephant Park commands a prime position for effortlessly accessing locations across central London and beyond.

The area attracts students for it is home to the renowned London College of Communication and London South Bank University.

Elephant Park has a new, 2.5-acre landscaped public space in the heart of the development, providing a large green zone for the whole community. Designed by Gillespies landscape architects, it has 27 mature trees, a variation of innovative outdoor seating, elaborate planting, and varied spaces for community events. It provides ‘a year-round, multi-sensory experience for people of all ages’ and in its centre is the Elephant Springs, a micro water park featuring rocks, fountains, waterfalls and sandy paths.

Sayer Street is an attractive, new thoroughfare in Elephant Park. Dotted with modern shops, cafes and restaurants with generous outdoor seating, the street connects Wallworth and Elephant and Castle and offers a great interactive location for residents, businesses, visitors.

The nearest, well-established public park is Burgess Park which offers a kids’ play area, a BMX track, tennis courts, athletic tracks and a fishing lake,

A new Community hub as well as a Creative business centre is being established at the old Walworth Town Hall, an imposing Victorian heritage building dating back to 1865. Also in the same neighbourhood, on the southern borders of the Elephant Park development, are Walworth Library and Southwark Heritage Centre.

Elephant and Castle is home to Southwark Playhouse Theatre and the Imperial War Museum, both located only a 5-minute walk from Elephant and Castle Underground station. The nightlife of the Elephant and Castle is topped by Corsica Studios and Ministry of Sound, while the food scene is defined by the vibrant Mercato Metropolitano located on Newington Causeway.

The next big town regeneration project, after re-designing the multi-lane roundabout, is the transformation of a large central area that was the setting for the old Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre built in 1965. The site is reserved for a new Town Centre which will have 1,000 new homes, provide modern shopping experience, a new Northern Line entrance with escalators and a ticket hall, and improved accessibility and step-free access to Elephant and Castle mainline railway station.

Elephant Park transport

Elephant Park is located nearby the large and buzzy Elephant and Castle transport hub.

The hub has access to excellent Underground (Bakerloo and Northern) and National railway services (Thameslink and Southeastern trains), as well as over 50 bus routes.

Elephant Park Architects

MAKE Architects: Elephant Park Masterplan

MaccreanorLavington: South Gardens (detailed design of the first phase of Elephant Park),

Panter Hudspith and AHMM: West Grove (detailed design of the second phase of Elephant Park) + Park Central West & Park Central East,

AFK: Park & Sayer

Squire & Partners: One The Elephant.

dRMM: Trafalgar Place,

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