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UK: Developer HUB has submitted plans for a 1.2-acre coliving-led mixed-use scheme for the last plot in the Elephant Park masterplan in south London.
Designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM) the scheme will include coliving homes, social housing, a community health hub and active ground floor amenity across three buildings, with landscaped public realm adding to and blending with the adjacent Elephant Park.
The new community health hub proposed for the ground and first floors of one building with frontages on Elephant Road and Walworth Road respond to a long-standing need for improved healthcare infrastructure in the area to cater to its fast-growing population, and is located with access to excellent transport connectivity.
Residents will benefit from generous outdoor amenity spaces, including a shared podium courtyard accessible from all buildings, complete with a dedicated children’s play area, as well as two rooftop terraces offering elevated views and communal gathering spaces. The scheme’s landscape and public realm have been designed by landscape architects Gillespies.
Both AHMM and Gillespies have been instrumental in delivering the wider Elephant Park regeneration, with this scheme reflecting and extending the established architectural language of the masterplan. The three buildings have individual architectural identities that take cues from their immediate surroundings, but are unified by a cohesive material palette with brick façades.
The public realm design draws inspiration from the adjacent park, prioritising permeability, greening, and active frontages that encourage community use and enhance connectivity. This is complemented by cycle storage facilities and is a car-free development except for policy-compliant parking allocated to the affordable homes and healthcare facilities.
HUB has developed the plans over six months following extensive community engagement including two public exhibitions, eight community workshops, two days of drop-in sessions and four stakeholder meetings. These 800 individual conversations generated 1,800 distinct insights that informed the application.
Damien Sharkey, managing director at HUB, said: “We are excited to reveal our plans for this important site, which we have worked hard to ensure respond to local needs and community views while melding cohesively with the rest of Elephant Park. As one of the final sites to come forward in this neighbourhood, we have an opportunity to deliver essential infrastructure for this community with a new community health hub, alongside new co-living and truly affordable social rent homes. We look forward to moving forward to the next stages in this process alongside our partners to realise our collective ambition to deliver an outstanding final development at Elephant Park.”
Paul Monaghan, executive director of AHMM, added: “Following our work on West Grove and the subsequent Park Central East and West developments within Elephant Park, we’re thrilled to collaborate with HUB, Gillespies, and the wider design team to realise the final piece of the masterplan. This project represents an exciting opportunity to deliver a truly mixed-use building – one that brings together essential healthcare facilities, much-needed social housing, and vibrant co-living apartments to complete this dynamic new neighbourhood.”
HUB has a significant pipeline of coliving schemes in London, and this application comes just a week after HUB topped out at its Yardhouse coliving scheme in Wood Lane, west London.
Highlights:
• Developer HUB has submitted plans for a 1.2-acre coliving-led mixed-use scheme for the last plot in the Elephant Park masterplan in south London
• Designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM) the scheme will include coliving homes, social housing, a community health hub and active ground floor amenity across three buildings, with landscaped public realm adding to and blending with the adjacent Elephant Park
• HUB has a significant pipeline of coliving schemes in London, and this application comes just a week after HUB topped out at its Yardhouse coliving scheme in Wood Lane, west London
