London, UK. 21st June 2018. A woman poses in the special dress with its message 'Stop the Elephant Development' she has made for the protest against plans by property giant Delancey and the University of the Arts London (UAL) to demolish the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre and replace it with luxury housing and a new building for the London College of Communication (LCC). Credit: Peter Marshall/Alamy Live News
London, UK. 21st June 2018. A woman poses in the special dress with its message 'Stop the Elephant Development' she has made for the protest against plans by property giant Delancey and the University of the Arts London (UAL) to demolish the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre and replace it with luxury housing and a new building for the London College of Communication (LCC). They marched along the busy roads around the centre, holding up traffic, and stopped for speeches at several points before returning for a final rally outside the LCC. Previous protests have resulted in minor improvements to the plan, including 7% of social housing, but campaigners say the plans, coming before Southwark Council again on July 3rd, are social cleansing and gentrification, turfing out the working class, the largely Latin traders and the wider community from the Elephant. Campaigners accuse Delancey of failing to meet planning obligations in two existing developments in the area, and of avoiding paying UK taxes through extensive use of off-shore shell companies. They say if the development goes ahead many of the new properties will be bought as investments by wealthy foreign investors and are likely to remain empty, and that the developer is carving up the Elephant & Castle with no regard for anything but the huge profits their plans would give them. Peter Marshall/Alamy Live News
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