One The Elephant

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|image = One the Elephant.jpg

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|name = One The Elephant

|status = Complete

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|location = Elephant & Castle, London, England

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|roof = {{convert|124|m|ft|abbr=on}}

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|floor_count = 37

|completion_date = 2016

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|client = Lendlease

|architect = Squire & Partners

|structural_engineer = Robert Bird Group

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|main_contractor = Lendlease

| website = [http://www.onetheelephant.com/ onetheelephant.com]

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One The Elephant is a residential apartment development, in Elephant & Castle in the London Borough of Southwark, centred around a 37-storey 124m tall tower. At the base of the tower is an adjoining four-storey L-shaped pavilion containing apartments and commercial units. The development lies immediately adjacent to the Metropolitan Tabernacle and in close proximity to Elephant & Castle tube station.

Planning consent was granted in 2012.{{citation|title=One The Elephant: Lendlease aims to cash in on Hyde Park effect|url=http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/6463|work=London SE1}} The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, visited the site as construction began in 2013.{{cite web|title=Mayor Boris Johnson starts One The Elephant construction|url=http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/6999|work=London SE1}} The development was completed in summer 2016.{{citation|title=Developer rakes in 'Over £70m' profits from Elephant & Castle Tower With Zero Affordable Housing|url=https://www.southwarknews.co.uk/news/developer-rakes-70m-profits-elephant-castle-tower-zero-affordable-housing/ |work=Southwark News}}{{citation|title=One The Elephant, time-lapse film - June 2016|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVPMhfMqILY&feature=youtu.be|work=Lendlease}}

The development comprises 284 studio, one-bedroom, two-bedroom and three-bedroom apartments with 254 in the tower and 30 in the attached four-storey pavilion.{{cite web|title=New homes now available at One The Elephant|url=http://www.elephantandcastle.org.uk/pages/news_events/204/new_homes_launching_this_week_at_one_the_elephant_.html|work=elephantandcastle.org|access-date=13 June 2015}}{{cite web|title=Elephant & Castle gets a lick of paint|url=https://www.cityam.com/elephant-castle-gets-lick-paint/|work=City AM|access-date=1 Sep 2020}}

The building is located on the site of a council-owned leisure centre (that featured a swimming pool (closed for many years), a gym, squash courts and a sports hall). The building contains no affordable housing, with the developer Lendlease making a £3m payment in lieu towards the development of adjacent leisure facility, the Castle Centre.{{cite web|title=The truth about poor doors|url=https://www.thedeveloper.live/opinion/the-truth-about-poor-doors?s=09&fbclid=IwAR07iC-S4u0memTK8Cf8tN5fnvbL9ote1-0nMQSVctgIrlbnM9ctyZ-7dY4|work=The Developer}}{{cite web|title=One The Elephant|url=http://35percent.org/one-the-elephant/|work=35% Campaign}} Including that payment, the sale of the land and proceeds from an overage deal, Southwark Council received £22m from the One The Elephant development which more than covered the £20m cost of the new leisure centre.{{citation|title=One The Elephant luxury flats meet full cost of Castle Centre|url=http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/9112|work=London SE1}}