Aylesham Centre

Peckham is a vibrant town centre with a rich mix of retail, creative, arts and cultural uses, but it is not immune to the high-street decline threatening towns and cities across the country. The Aylesham Centre lies at the heart of the town centre and has an important role to play in shaping and protecting Peckham’s future for generations to come. The scheme proposes to demolish the existing 1980’s mall, car park and petrol filling station and replace it with a new ground plane focused on a pedestrian retail environment that integrates public amenity, play space, an all-electric bus stand together with a new supermarket and bus interchange at its axis. Spreading out from these key routes are a network of groves, pockets and lanes that link into the surrounding conservation area increasing connections to the neighbourhood. Atop of this highly active ground plane sits approximately 950 new homes with courtyards and roof top amenity space. The inclusion of five additional architects and their differing approaches adds greater variety to the scheme, which, coupled with an ambitious approach to sustainability and urban greening makes this an exciting prospect for the future of Peckham.