Strata - Castle House development - aka Multiplex Tower

Does anyone know if this has finally broken ground and work commenced?

Unless you've noticed the sudden disappearance of an existing 15 storey tower block on the southern roundabout recently it is safe to assume that they are nowhere near breaking ground or even breaking some digestive biscuits in yet another meeting to discuss the revandalisation of the Elephant into yet another overhyped temple of Mamon.

OOps! someone isnt happy. But I do understand that they are due to start next month.

boroughbloke wrote:

Unless you've noticed the sudden disappearance of an existing 15 storey tower block on the southern roundabout recently it is safe to assume that they are nowhere near breaking ground or even breaking some digestive biscuits in yet another meeting to discuss the revandalisation of the Elephant into yet another overhyped temple of Mamon.

What tower block should disappear? There is a 24 storey tower block and that's going nowhere. It only will be a little squashed by the new development which will replace the 5 or so storey office building next to it.

funny how the tower block next to Castle House has been brushed out of a number of photos of the new development so far....lol

Thanks for the update. I have been out of the country since Christmas. Not much has changed (as usual) on the Elephant Regeneration front then!

Any work started on the Oakyme Square development either? I expect not.

INDOMIE wrote:

funny how the tower block next to Castle House has been brushed out of a number of photos of the new development so far....lol

I don't think they airbrushed it out, just used some very closely cropped pictures.

The only side by side image I could find a few months ago is here

There's a more seductive image on the same website showing just the front edgte of the current tower, framed by the trees of the former churchyard.

Not seen those ones before... the main one I have seen is on the e and c regeneration website....maybe not brushed out but certainly alot of artistic license going on with the developers......

http://www.elephantandcastle.org.uk/regenerationprogramme/buildingsunderway/

Demolition work has already started on the Oakmayne development at long last as well as the new Vantage development by St George...

http://www.stgeorgeplc.com/developments/vantage.asp

There are more pics here -

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/buildings.php?id=4488

(click thumbnails to enlarge)

Do NOT, Indomie, mention St.George's horrible Vantage being built on our parking lot...you havent been on this Forum long enough to know that it is a serious thorn in the flesh of those of us who protested for six years against someone selling us flats with parking and then promptly putting in planning permission to build over the parking lot. But of course they finally bought their way through all the objectors, the Council, the OPDM, and there we are, doomed.