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This hotel was threatened with demolition so that a new housing development could be built on the site, but planning permission was refused. There is an application to have it given "listed" status. Follow these links to find out more http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driscoll_House http://www.london-se1.co.uk/forum/read/1/40692 http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/2056

A handsome late C18th terrace of nine houses, each of three storeys plus basement and attic in three bays (Image]), and possessing a decorative wooden doorcase (Image]). Grade II listed.

Doorcase with "attached columns with foliage capitals supporting entablature with medallions and dentil cornice" and radial fanlight. Wider view: Image

An attractive street of 3-storey townhouses, that have outlived the later public housing of the nearby Heygate estate that was being demolished at this time.

One of the end houses in this good late C18th terrace (Image]). The doorcase (Image]) and rubbed brick flat arches to the windows are the only remotely decorative elements and yet the proportions and homely brick make for a satisfying facade. Wider view: Image

An imposing block in a revivalist style with a brick exterior but an early example of the use of Mouchel's iron and concrete construction method. Built as a women's hostel in 1911-13. Grade II listed. Still a hostel, though not reserved for women, now run by Rest Up.

Driscoll House is a Grade II listed building on the New Kent Road. It first opened as "Ada Lewis House" in 1913, offering accommodation for working women. Later it became a hotel, the Driscoll House Hotel, and more recently a student hostel. It closed in 2007, and despite local rumours that it would be demolished, was converted and sold to a developer. See also Image (most of this information from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driscoll_House )

The demolition of the Heygate Estate in inner south London is part of a £1.5billion project which will take a number of years to complete. This is the first part of the estate to be demolished, seen from the upper deck of a bus on Rodney Road.

Looking along the pedestrianised Victory Place off Rodney Road.

The L-shaped park takes its name from Victory Place at its southeast corner. It adjoins Victory Primary School, Elba Place. In view here are a slab of the Heygate Estate, vacated and awaiting demolition, with the Strata Tower at Elephant and Castle beyond it. On the right is Munton Road.