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• Elephant & Castle office block: Lendlease wins appeal

  03-12-2023 21:29 via se1.news
  
  The site at the corner of Walworth Road and Elephant Road - just yards from Elephant & Castle Railway Station - was previously green open space attached to the Heygate Estate.More recently it has been used for 'The Artworks' temporary shops, restaurants and library. Part of the site is currently used by the 'Crate to Plate' urban farm.Whilst Lendlease's 2013 outline planning permission for the redevelopment of the Heygate Estate as Elephant Park envisaged residential use of the corner site,
  
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• Mark Oakley installed as Southwark Cathedral dean

  03-12-2023 20:49 via se1.news
  
  The Dean is the most senior priest at Southwark Cathedral, the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Southwark.The Bishop of Southwark, Rt Revd Christopher Chessun, presided at the service of Choral Evensong on Sunday afternoon that included the installation of Dr Oakley as Dean and rector of the cathedral parish and St Hugh's Bermondsey.Dr Oakley succeeds the Very Revd Andrew Nunn who retired earlier this year after 11 years as dean.In his sermon Dr Oakley drew on words of 17th century bisho
  
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