But is it progress?

This series, taken over 18 months, documents the redevelopment of London’s Elephant and Castle showing the old, the new and the left-behind.

In 2004 Southwark Council embarked on a £4bn regeneration project around the Elephant and Castle in South London. It involves the building of thousands of new homes - some apartments selling for nearly £1m - and new community facilities. A new town centre will replace the shopping centre. The old shopping centre (opened in 1965 and the ‘hub’ of the “Elephant”) closed in September 2020, and with it the closure of the market. But the development has met with opposition as local campaigners cite too few new homes available at affordable rents, many local traders left with nowhere to go, and local residents bypassed.

So we ask, is it progress? And what of those left behind?