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What Walworth Wants About What Walworth Wants Walworth history Walworth today Strategy Ambitions for Walworth Character areas Types of interventions • Public realm improvements • Wayfinding and identity amplification • Building frontage improvements • Animation and activation • Support for local enterprise • Empowering communities What Walworth Wants.... Area Proposals Strategy Next Steps Next East Street Market Area Proposals • Area context and challenges • What’s here and already happening? • What are the opportunities and priorities? • Projects Eastern stretch of East Street • Area context and challenges • What’s here and already happening? • What are the opportunities and priorities? • Projects Old Kent Road • Area context and challenges • What’s here and already happening? • What are the opportunities and priorities? • Projects Bricklayer’s Arms • Area context and challenges • What’s here and already happening? • What are the opportunities and priorities? • Projects About Next Steps Making it happen Process Delivery Guiding principles Funding Strategy Next Steps Next Area Proposals Acknowledgements Proposals: We Made That Graphic Design: Maddison Graphic Cost Advice: Stockdale Photography: We Made That The production of What Walworth Wants has been made possible by funding from the Mayor’s High Street Fund and the London Borough of Southwark. What Walworth Wants Walworth is an urban area located south of the River Thames, in the London Borough of Southwark. What Walworth Wants is a catalogue of projects that aims to celebrate Walworth’s unique character, help build resilience of what exists today and contribute to knitting together gaps between development. The catalogue focuses on Walworth’s high streets: Walworth Road, East Street, Old Kent Road, and their surrounding neighbourhoods. The proposals put forward in this catalogue build on, support and encourage activity that is already taking place on the ground. They vary from the micro to the large-scale, from Strategy quick wins to long-term aims for growth. It Steps Next includes recommendations that range from Area Proposals public realm enhancements to business support, from wayfinding interventions to meanwhile uses in underused premises. What Walworth Wants has been designed as a public tool to be used by local residents, community groups, public authorities and other stakeholders to take ownership and co-deliver projects. It is hoped that complementary projects can also be considered for the wider neighbouhood. The potential projects have been developed in collaboration with a wide community stakeholder group. In combination they form a cohesive strategy and vision for Walworth. East Street Market entrance on Walworth Road Walworth history Walworth has a rich history and its cultural and industrial heritage forms a key part of its identity today. Walworth has been in existence since ancient Roman and Anglo Saxon times. The historic village centre was located where East Street Market meets Walworth Road today. Walworth’s rich Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian heritage is apparent today in the urban grain, the street layout and in its architecture, especially along Walworth Road. East Street Market is one of the oldest markets in London and has existed in one form or the other since the 16th century. It is still referred coloquially as ‘The Lane’, a reference to its historic location on East Strategy Lane. Steps Next Area Proposals Old Kent Road also has a long history dating back to Roman times when it formed part of Watling Street. Remnants of its development during the Georgian period are apparent in the listed building ‘The White House’ and in the Dun Cow pubhouse (now a doctor’s surgery). Significant infrastructure developed along Old Kent Road, including a large gasworks that was founded by the South Metropolitan Gas Works Company in 1834 and the Bricklayer’s Arms Station by the South Eastern Railway in 1844. Over time it was converted into a goods depot and more recently into a light industrial estate along Mandela Way. East Street Market, 1910 (Source: Now & Then Walworth) Tower Hamlets To The City Walworth Tower of Covent Garden London today The catalogue’s focus area of Walworth The is framed by Walworth Road to the West Shard and Old Kent Road to the East. East Street To Elephant & Castle Westminster forms the key link between these two high Southwark Park streets. Elephant and Castle Station is a WALWORTH key transport hub located just north-west Old Kent of the area. Old Kent Road forms a primary East Street Road transport corridor and is a major link between Walworth Burgess Park central, Inner and Outer London. Each of Road the high streets vary in character and use, from retail to the light industrial. A number To To New Brixton Peckham Road Cross of assets that serve local residents and businesses are located in and around the area, including East Street Market, Robert Browning Primary School, Nursery Row Park and East Street Library. Peckham Rye Strategy There are a number of major regeneration Steps Next Common initiatives currently shaping Walworth today. Area Proposals The Elephant and Castle Opportunity Area is situated just to the north and includes Elephant Park and the Walworth Road Town Lambeth Dulwich Park Lewisham Centre. The Aylesbury Regeneration Area is a To South major regeneration masterplan located south Streatham Circular Road of East Street that will significantly increase the number of people living in the area. To the To Forest east is the Old Kent Road Opportunity Area Hill that extends across a number of different character areas including Bricklayer’s Arms Roundabout. This area has the potential to support new homes and more jobs, and in part driven by the Bakerloo Line Extension, the potential for two new stations. Croydon N Bromley Rockingham ELEPHANT & Playgroup CASTLE St Saviour’s & St Olave’s Secondary School NEW KENT ROAD BRICKLAYER’S ARMS The Willows ROUNDABOUT Cul de Sac Gallery Stephanie’s Multicentre The Drawing Room The Artworks Elephant Townsend T-34 Tank Primary School Baitul Rahman Masjid SALISBURY ROW PARK OLD KENT ROAD The White House Victory House English Martyr’s Church Southwark Cyprus Walworth Turkish Association East Street Library Town Hall East Street Surgery NURSERY ROW SAST House PARK Walworth Clinic WALWORTH ROAD Pembroke House EAST STREET 9 Larcom Street Strategy English Martyr’s Primary School Steps Next University Gladston Pub Area Proposals Abacus Arts Academy Robert Browning Artists Studio Company Occupation of Engineering Primary School South Bank Turps Banana Studios Aylesbury Health Centre Carnaval del Notting Hill Housing Pullens Pueblo SURREY SQUARE Yard East Street East Street PARK EAST STREET CoolTan Market Baptist Church Arts The Good FARADAY Intent Pub Creation Trust GARDENS What’s valued in Walworth The Beehive Valued in Walworth PASLEY Villa Street PARK Medical Centre Conservation area St Peter’s Church Listed building N BURGESS PARK 5-9 Rockingham Street Skipton House ELEPHANT & CASTLE London Square NEW KENT ROAD BRICKLAYER’S ARMS Bermondsey Elephant & ROUNDABOUT Castle Town Centre Elephant Park 7-14 Mandela Way 2-10 Steedman Tr a f a lg a r SALISBURY ROW PARK OLD KENT ROAD Street Place Stax Building Walworth Town Hall BASE17 NURSERY ROW PARK 2-6 Amelia Street WALWORTH ROAD EAST STREET Morecambe/ Strategy Browning Street Steps Next Area Proposals Chantelaine House Masons Arms Carnaval del Pueblo SURREY SQUARE PARK EAST STREET Aylesbury Regeneration Manor Place Depot FARADAY GARDENS Morrisons Current and forthcoming PASLEY PARK development Key current and forthcoming development N Strategy Strategy Area Proposals Next Steps Ambitions Enterprise and entrepreneurship What Walworth Wants aims to support the diverse for Walworth local economy by engaging with existing businesses to ensure they build resilience, adapt and grow with Character areas forthcoming change and provide for a broad range of communities. Projects aim to provide an attractive The Walworth area encompasses a substantial environment for entrepreneurs by addressing issues region including high streets, retail parks, residential of space and affordability. Existing creative clusters neighbourhoods, large infrastructure and industrial are also supported and encouraged to continue to uses. The focus area has therefore been divided thrive in the area. Actions are set out to diversify into four areas that largely capture the different the service offer and provide social hubs that can characters: East Street Market, Eastern Stretch of contribute to sustaining a local, circular economy. East Street, Old Kent Road and Bricklayer’s Arms. This enables a rigorous approach to analysing and capturing what exists already, and guarantees Participation and activity proposals are specific to their context. What Walworth Wants aims to support existing What Walworth Wants seeks to protect and enhance stewardship and facilitate activities that are already the Walworth area to improve the experience for taking place on the ground. A strong community existing residents and businesses, and to attract exists in Walworth in which active local groups new residents and businesses. The strategy of the ensure its heritage, public space and activity are catalogue has been to address the following: celebrated. Actions are focused on catalysing Steps Next a range of activities by providing the tools and Area Proposals framework to do so. People and businesses that are Physical and built environment currently disconnected physically and socially