The Living Room @ Sayer Street helps create a complete high street environment on Sayer Street while the next phase of the £2.5bn regeneration project, Elephant’s Park, is completed.
Designed to be a community and place-enhancing installation, The Living Room @ Sayer Street, includes a 70 metre part-covered structure, three pop-up kiosks for creative and maker businesses, planting, lighting and landscaping. There is also outdoor seating for dwelling or workspace during the day, spill-over at lunch, and evening dining and socialising for the array of eateries that have joined the Sayer Street line-up. A ‘meanwhile wildflower meadow’ completes the experience.
The Living Room is a new asset for the local community and supports the connectivity of an area that would otherwise have had construction hoarding along one of its sides. It delivers a two-sided, fully enhanced street that maximises Elephant’s Park’s attraction throughout the day and evening. And the intention is that, in line with Government guidelines and restrictions, it will fully reopen when the lockdown in England is eased.
This latest meanwhile use follows in the footsteps of the superb Artworks Elephant business incubator space, which provided a community led space for dozens of start-ups and small businesses at Elephant Park between 2014 and 2018. The project played a major role in creating new jobs, providing skills and support to new businesses and helping them to become successful.
Guy Thomas, Head of Retail at Lendlease, said: “Our installation on Sayer Street is a great example of Lendlease investing in meanwhile use opportunities to support the community’s experience of the public spaces that we are creating. We are committed to ensuring the experience for those spending time at Elephant Park is the best it possibly can be at all stages of the development programme as construction continues.”
