Stead Street, London

This project is the largest of the Elephant & Castle Regeneration Early Housing schemes and was won as part of a high-profile invited competition.

There is currently a lack of boundary or edge to Nursery Park. Our building serves to address this; it creates a defined edge and entrance and maximizes overlooking from the surrounding buildings. The scheme consists of five separate buildings with courtyards in between. Two of these courtyards are public and provide safe, quality entrances to the park. The remaining courtyards are slightly raised and separated from the park by ha-has. This creates communal south-facing amenity spaces with views towards greenery for the residents.

Servicing, parking and plant space are situated at the Ground level, which allows for active frontages on Stead Street, whether the units be shops, cafes or offices. Above are 170 residential units: ranging in size from 1 to 3 Bedrooms. There are also three 5-bedroom family maisonettes on Brandon Street with private front and rear gardens.

The vast majority of the residential units are dual aspect and have south-facing living rooms and balconies overlooking Nursery Row Park. In this way, we hope to create a truly sustainable community; reducing the carbon footprint of the building and providing light, desirable accommodation at the same time.


Competition won: 2006