New Kent Road
New Kent Road is in the London Borough of Southwark.
Linking Elephant and Castle with Old Kent Road, NKR is a traffic-heavy street.
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In the news
- Tesco Express coming to New Kent Road
13 May 2012 - Heygate Estate: Lend Lease submits outline planning application
3 Apr 2012 - Latin American presence at Elephant is "under threat", Deputy Mayor told
9 Mar 2012 - Lend Lease unveils final masterplan for Elephant & Castle's Heygate Estate
22 Feb 2012 - Damehood for Sylvia Morris, former headteacher of Southwark's Cathedral School
31 Dec 2011 - 21-year-old pedestrian dies after New Kent Road collision
20 Dec 2011 - Sexual assault at Elephant & Castle: police appeal for information
11 Dec 2011 - Elephant & Castle: Southwark Council publishes draft planning policy
23 Nov 2011 - Bus route 172: Abellio told to raise its game
22 Nov 2011 - Latest Elephant & Castle masterplan published
29 Oct 2011 - Elephant & Castle 'most dangerous' spot for road injuries in London
6 Oct 2011 - SE1 shops feature in 'Shit London' book
16 Aug 2011 - Lend Lease begins to set out its vision for Elephant & Castle
17 Jul 2011 - Elephant & Castle northern roundabout: 'peninsula' plan in jeopardy
9 Jun 2011 - Elephant & Castle: council accused of 'abandoning town centre vision'
26 May 2011 - Barack Obama visits Southwark's Globe Academy
24 May 2011 - St Modwen reveals more details of Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre plans
18 May 2011 - Biking Boris statue proposal for fourth plinth goes on show at City Hall
6 Apr 2011 - Driscoll House could reopen as a hostel
9 Mar 2011 - Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth recreated in dead-end SE1 street
15 Feb 2011 - 24-year-old killed in New Kent Road collision: witnesses sought
11 Oct 2010 - Elephant & Castle southern roundabout to be removed by 11 October
28 Sep 2010 - Southwark pupils' work to be published in IPC magazines
19 Aug 2010 - Man found guilty of Gary Johnson murder outside Ministry of Sound
13 Aug 2010 - Guerrilla geographers launch Mission:Explore iPhone app at Golden Hinde
8 Aug 2010 - Man critically injured in New Kent Road collision
25 Jun 2010 - Barclays to sponsor TfL cycle hire and superhighways
28 May 2010 - Interview: Nick Stanton, Southwark Liberal Democrat leader
3 May 2010 - Fire at Albert Barnes House on New Kent Road
23 Apr 2010 - Sexual assault in Walworth: police appeal for information
19 Feb 2010 - Tower Bridge Road toilets featured in credit crunch calendar
22 Dec 2009 - M&S Simply Food to open at St Thomas' Hospital
7 Dec 2009 - Boris's Hyde Park policy change could scupper SE1 skyscraper plans
8 Oct 2009 - Woman found in suitcase was last seen on bus at Elephant & Castle
29 Sep 2009 - Autumn in SE1: roadworks in Tooley Street, Borough High Street & New Kent Road
31 Aug 2009 - Which parts of SE1's heritage does English Heritage say are 'at risk'?
1 Jul 2009 - Teachers at two SE1 girls' schools recognised at London Teaching Awards
25 Jun 2009 - Major fire in derelict building on New Kent Road
23 Mar 2009 - Locals will be "robbed" by Elephant & Castle regeneration warns Peter Tatchell
6 Mar 2009 - Tesco plans wind turbine at Old Kent Road store
8 Feb 2009 - Crossrail levy could be "final straw" for "fragile" Elephant & Castle regeneration
9 Feb 2009 - Five Elephant & Castle housing schemes get the green light
22 Dec 2008 - Latest Oakmayne Plaza scheme gets go-ahead from councillors
4 Dec 2008 - Elephant & Castle housing delay "not acceptable" admits regeneration boss
11 Nov 2008 - Blackfriars skyscraper inquiry closes: "sarcophagus" or "sculptural elegance"?
5 Oct 2008 - Latest Elephant & Castle roundabout delay is "hammer blow" says Labour
5 Oct 2008 - Pedestrian injured in New Kent Road coach collision
20 Jun 2008 - Denis Norden unveils Elephant Trocadero cinema plaque
5 Jun 2008 - M&S Simply Food Bankside store draws a crowd on opening day
4 Jun 2008 - Bankside M&S Simply Food opens this week
1 Jun 2008 - Heygate wind turbine trial finishes
13 May 2008 - Stag scaffolding sculpture appears on Elephant building site
13 May 2008 - Man sets off on 55,000-mile motorbike trip via Elephant & Castle
16 Apr 2008 - M&S Simply Food coming to Bankside
17 Jan 2008 - Man in court over Coronet shootings
10 Jan 2008 - Shops, cinema, student housing and 312 apartments for Elephant Road
19 Dec 2007 - Elephant & Castle partners plan regeneration roadshows
5 Dec 2007 - Lend Lease chosen as Elephant & Castle development partner
24 Jul 2007 - Tesco coming to Tabard Square
9 Jul 2007 - Driscoll House Hotel founder dies
4 Jul 2007 - New timetable set for Elephant and Castle developer selection
14 Jun 2007 - Wind turbine on New Kent Road housing block
12 Jun 2007 - Southwark teenagers exhibit art in West End gallery
9 May 2007 - Borough Post Office to close
20 Apr 2007 - SE1 pupil wins Southwark public speaking contest
28 Mar 2007 - 15-year-old stabbed in New Kent Road
15 Feb 2007 - Geoffrey Chaucer demolition: campaigners propose alternatives
2 Feb 2007 - Huge blaze on New Kent Road
30 Jan 2007 - New Kent Road minicab gun seizure: two men jailed
25 Nov 2006 - Three years of roadworks in SE1 as Thames Water replaces pipes
14 Sep 2006 - More Heygate replacement housing revealed
8 Sep 2006 - Elephant traders get first refusal in new development
22 Aug 2006 - Dirty Pretty Things to play Coronet road safety gig
8 Aug 2006 - New Post Office for Great Dover Street
15 May 2006 - Stalemate in Southwark after dramatic election night
5 May 2006 - Interview with Nick Stanton, Southwark Lib Dem leader
21 Apr 2006 - 42-storey Elephant tower approved
22 Mar 2006 - Falmouth Road Park reopened
21 Mar 2006 - Campaign to list threatened Driscoll House
14 Mar 2006 - Metro Central residents protest against tree 'vandalism'
9 Dec 2005 - Waterloo ambulance staff raise funds for Elephant school
8 Dec 2005 - Elephant's annual film festival under way
29 Nov 2005 - Hotel owner fined £16,000 for breaching food hygiene regulations
14 Nov 2005 - Hit and run in New Kent Road
1 Nov 2005 - Elephant and Castle sex attacker sentenced
12 Aug 2005 - Attempted sexual assault at Elephant and Castle
28 Mar 2005 - Good Friday procession of witness
25 Mar 2005 - HR Owen employee convicted of theft
28 Feb 2005 - SE1 school hosts City Hall education launch
7 Dec 2004 - Cleaning up the Elephant
8 Nov 2004 - The Elephant Never Forgets
14 Jul 2004 - Girls' school gets science specialist status
1 Jul 2004 - More trees for Great Dover Street
20 Jan 2004 - Congestion Charge cuts traffic on Day 1
17 Feb 2003 - GCSE boost for SE1 schools
27 Aug 2002
On the forum
- Bricklayer's Arms Flyover: Gone. Playing fields? Thoughts?
- TV reception problems
- The Elephant - what do you like about it?
- Virgin broadband
- Is The Elephant Your Neighbourhood?
- Accident on OKR? [New Kent Road fatal collision]
- Cynical - Southwark Council
- Horrible accident on NKR
- Roundabout at TBR and Great Dover
- Buying fireworks
- 188 Bus Problems?
- How should our area evolve and develop
- Homeless sleeping all over parks
- Buses terminating early at Elephant
- Goodbye to the 4-5-free
- Michael Caine Mural on New Kent Road
- Boris bike full docking stations
- Abellio "Buses"
- Demolition?
- Riots
- Tesco coming to More London/Tooley Street
- Five Star - That's its' name!
- Bricklayers Arms Flyover
- Allotments
- C10 diversions
- Elephant Amenity Network present Imagining The Elephant!: Sat 4th June
- Loss of cycle lanes at Elephant & Castle
- Elephant and Castle tube ghost?
- Nese restaurant
- Wabi Shebele
- Bus 63 crowding
- Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre to endure
- End of the Subways
- Hate to Post it-but THE POST
- Water Water - no not here!
- Pedestrian Crossing - Long Lane / Abbey St / TBR
- Traffic
- Shirt cleaning that doesn't individually wrap each shirt in plastic?!
- Chinese food delivery - any recommendations please?
- What's up with Albert Barnes?
- Potato
- Quirky Party Venue
- Southwark almost accolade..
- Free historic Ordnance Survey-type maps
- Great Dover Street
- 24 hr M&S Simply Food, New Kent Road, closed at 10pm
- The Elephant pub
- London cycle rental at Bricklayers Arms
- 188: bus route of misery
- Orange/Vodafone iPhone Service in SE1
- Priority Gritting?
- Old churches
- New cafe in Elephant & Castle
- 168 bus route to OKR Tesco
- Early life in Bermondsey
- Incident on the New Kent Rd
- 78 bus
- New Kent Road closed
- What happened to the two Caryatids on Heygate Estate?
- New Kent Road - Closure Sat 26 Sept 10am?
- Power Outage 22-9-09
- Digging up Borough High Street
- A parking plea
- Yates family
- Roadworks New Kent Road September - December
- Mythical E&C regeneration
- Cyclists on the Thames Path and Albert Embankment
- Jasmine Garden - Bartholomew Street
- Cycling - Tower Bridge Road
- Fire last night in New Kent Road
- Pelican crossing times
- A2 Great Dover Street
- "Dreadful" bus service on routes 1 and 78: Val Shawcross investigates
- WANTED: Moving boxes for flat move
- Snow in SE1
- Cheap alterations, trouser hemming
- SE1 on the 1911 census
- Lithuanica has closed
- Re. Elephant and Castle traffic
- Garden supplies
- Moving to SE16
- Ironing in SE1
- Making Southwark's Roads Safer
- Cycle Speedway
- Schoolboy fight
- Planning applications for new housing around Elephant
- Beggars Waterloo/Borough
- Steering me..
- Disingenuous Paul Bates
- Firewood
- WW2 bombsites near Bricklayers Arms
- Local food shops near Bermondsey Street?
- BT landlines down: just my building?
- All Ireland gaelic football final
- Curious incidents in the Harper Road area
- New Kent Road on Monday
- Bermondsey Boy
- The Palatinate, New Kent Road
- E&C: back to the drawing board?
- Apple Schnapps emergency!
- Good food in the E&C shopping centre!
- Venue space
- Car Air Con Re-gas
- What is that bright light??
- Seeking a good dentist
- Riot Squads
- Rubbish collection in Southwark transformed?
- Where is Newington?
- Old Kent Road & East Street
- Mechanic/garage
- Clothing repairs and alterations
- Eileen House, Newington Causeway
- Tower plans in Elephant and Castle
- The Coronet
- Road Surface Quality in SE1
- Shad Thames - Is it really that nice?
- Southwark's Plans for Bermondsey Street
- Slamming Doors at The Glass House
- Roundabouts at Elephant
- St Mary's Churchyard, Newington Butts
- Police Sirens
- Safety on New and Old Kent Road
- Falmouth Road park: anti-social behaviour
- M&S Simply Food - New Kent Road
- Strange smell yesterday evening
- Shopping centre police-taped this evening
- New Kent Road cycle path - PLS USE IT!!!
- Local business card vending machine?
- Driscoll House and other changes on the New Kent Road
- Tour De France - road closures
- Curious
- Parks in Southwark v Lambeth
- Elephant and Castle Pub
- Car bodywork repair
- Power cut 11pm
- Elephant & Castle Theatre
- Metro/Vantage Tower
- Bricklayer's Arms Flyover / Roundabout
- London Skyline - Evening Standard
- Tower Bridge Road Trees on Bermondsey Square
- London Park Hotel Site
- Sentences...
- Elephant Multiplex Tower
- Anti Social Behaviour - Throwing Eggs
- Perronet House
- Tito's Peruvian restaurant
- Streetcar
- Fire at Albert Barnes House, New Kent Road
- Helicopter at Bricklayers Arms
- Poor TV reception
- Old Kent Road SE1
- Bad accident in New Kent Road
- Recycling Computer keyboards
- Southwark Street crossing near Bear Lane
- 20 mile an hour zone
- Accident on Old Kent Road
- Demolition of Chaucer school etc.
- Bicycle Enforcement
- County Terrace Tavern, NKR: any memories?
- Coaches...
- Water leak on New Kent Road
- Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, Falmouth Rd
- Urban camping: sleeping outside
- Serious Assault on Trinity Street?
- Traffic on Tower Bridge Road
- Celeb sightings in SE1
- Ecuadorian lunch at the shopping centre
- Looking for child NHS dentist in SE1
- Trinity Street
- Mary Neil of 35 New Kent Road
- Urban Foxes in SE1
- pool table near elephant and castle
- New post office in Great Dover Street
- Crime in SE1
- Jumble sale
- BEWARE - Window Cleaning Scam
- SE1 on Wikipedia
- Bus Crash on New Kent Road on Wednesday Night
- Anyone used El Azteca Mexican catering?
- Bizarre-looking woman plastered in black hair dye and make-up
- New cinema on Borough High Street
- New Kent Rd Post Office closes
- Illuminated blue box on the skyline
- Dentist Recommendation?
- New guy, places to go, people to see
- Westminster Bridge roundabout
- Punk Lives in SE1
- Any Pub recommended for F1 viewing?
- Personal Trainer
- Tower Bridge Road
- All these new buildings and redevelopments - but where is the transportation infrastructure?
- New skyscraper for Elephant
- Live Music... You Missed It
- Tree Vandals- shock horror!
- Traffic jam last night
- Polish Delicatessen - Pierogies
- Live music in SE1
- Driscoll House, New Kent Road
- New Kent Road closure last night
- Ambulances
- Desperately Seeking Pool Soon
- Jam Factory area: safety?
- South American Elephant and Castle
- Garden centre in SE1
- Pink lights / Elephant & Castle
- Dentist - is that a rip-off?
- Coronet Cinema
- Helicopter at Geoffrey Chaucer School
- Looking for local computer shoppe...
- Inexpensive space required for self defence course
- Elephant refurb...
- Architecture Foundation: pointy metal building...
- SE1 in new R.E.M. video (Aftermath)
- Birds
- Looking for a dentist
- It should NOT be in SE1!
- What's wrong with old buildings?
- The New Kent Road has moved...
- Heygate Estate
- Refuse Collection
- Virtual Communities - Real Photographs
- Ambulance access - how long before there's a real tragedy?
- Tattoo Artists
- Mexican food specialist at the Elephant
- That Polish Place restaurant
- Coronet at Elephant & Castle
- Sirens
- Puddles. Is Southwark the worst ?
- Michael Caine
- Polish Restaurant New Kent Road
- Third World Postal Service
- Tabard TMC turmoil
- fireworks
- Elephant DEgeneration
- Trinty Street closed
- Burning issue
- Early Morning Sweepers..
- Dentist Recommendation/ Braces
- Southwark Refuse Disposal
- Can anyone recommend...
- Parking Permits
- Security Cameras on New Kent Rd
- Parking enforcement
- Driving through Red Lights
- Tabard Gardens
- Garage/mechanic
- CRAP Bus Drivers !
- Sainsbury's Local in Borough High St
- Policing of SE1
- Congestion Charge - the Reality! Thumbs up or down?
- Mason St. to be made one way - crazy!
- Cinema at Elephant
- ELEPHANT & CASTLE, A FILM
- Falmouth Rd & Trinity St
- Urban foxes
- Talking about refuse and mess - Bermondsey St
- Congestion Charging
- Planning application for Borough Rd/Newington Causeway
- Traffic Management Exhibition
- moving to long lane
- Nominations, please
- Bermondsey Square regeneration
- Rubbish!
- Safe Crossing for school children in se1
- living in se1
- Bermondsey Spa
- YES!
- Can anyone tell me where I live?!
- Any advice for a new mover?
- Queen's Buildings, Scovell Road
- The Name, Elephant & Castle
- Bricklayers Arms Roundabout
- Building over anything green at the Bricklayers
- Coronet Cinema at Elephant
- More Graveyards