Posted by. Plans to bulldoze a shopping centre in Elephant and Castle have been approved amid opposition from locals. Reply | Reply | ... May end up being a white elephant (ho ho) due to WFH takeover, but looking at it on a map it is nuts that somewhere closer to St Pauls than most of Islington is/was so run down. The TSB bank has told customers of its Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre branch that it will close down on 28 February 2020. Campaigners against the closure of the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre chanted “homes for people, not for profit” and “Delancey in the bin” at a protest on Thursday evening (September 24). As the sun went down on the 24 September, so did the shutters in the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre, for the very last time. Originally a Lloyds Bank branch, it became part of the merged Lloyds TSB and was then rebranded as TSB when the banks split again in 2013 . The centre’s doors are now locked, the iconic statue taken down for refurbishment before being temporarily installed in Castle Square, and businesses have either shut shop or been relocated. ... What I like about the Elephant and Castle shopping centre is that it shows what London without capitalist market forces would be like. Elephant and Castle shopping centre demolition gets final approval. ... and has got the level of rents in the affordable homes down even further." Elephant and Castle’s shopping centre closed its doors for good last week – but what happens now? Elephant and castle shopping centre is closing :(Rhamnousia 27 Sep 20 15:39. The centre, which became Europe’s first ever large indoor shopping mall when it opened in 1965, was closing in favour of “re-development” by Delancey and Southwark Council. 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