One topic has really dominated the London Centric inbox this week: The eviction of a group of Caribbean, South American, and African restaurants in south London’s Elephant and Castle by developers in a dispute over unpaid bills .
I suspect savills were instructed to be as opaque as possible with the bills so they could force businesses out with unpaid bills.
This would have been a strategy devised between the landlord and savills. Local cllrs should be pushing to investigate this ok but tbh cllrs are useless
There was another group of traders who were moved to a different site on the other side of the former roundabout, The Elephant Arcade, which has now largely closed as well due to lack of footfall. And we're also about to lose the wildly popular Mercato Metropolitano on Newington Causeway.
I suspect savills were instructed to be as opaque as possible with the bills so they could force businesses out with unpaid bills.
This would have been a strategy devised between the landlord and savills. Local cllrs should be pushing to investigate this ok but tbh cllrs are useless
Anyone know of any groups protesting the way the restaurant owners have been treated?
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There was another group of traders who were moved to a different site on the other side of the former roundabout, The Elephant Arcade, which has now largely closed as well due to lack of footfall. And we're also about to lose the wildly popular Mercato Metropolitano on Newington Causeway.
https://southwarknews.co.uk/area/elephant-and-castle/traders-evicted-from-elephant-and-castle-shopping-arcade-as-private-landlord-hands-back-control-of-struggling-retail-space-to-southwark-council/