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New Kent Road
New Kent Road is in the London Borough of Southwark.
Linking Elephant and Castle with Old Kent Road, NKR is a traffic-heavy street.
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In the news
- Murder investigation launched after woman dies at Elephant & Castle 7 Apr 2023
- Man jailed for nine years for causing death by dangerous driving 3 Nov 2022
- Elephant & Castle rail bridge to be decorated with hand-painted ads 30 Mar 2022
- Elephant & Castle: fire in arches shuts roads and railway 28 Jun 2021
- TfL introduces eastbound bus lane in New Kent Road 28 Mar 2021
- TfL to trial extended bus lane in Tower Bridge Road 14 Mar 2021
- Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre closes after 55 years 25 Sep 2020
- Man stabbed in Trinity Street altercation 11 Jul 2020
- New Kent Road: 9-storey hotel plans approved 15 Jun 2020
- Lendlease to resume Elephant Park building works on New Kent Road 24 Apr 2020
- SE1's replica of Trafalgar Square fourth plinth reduced to rubble 23 Feb 2020
- 8-storey block of flats proposed for Falmouth Road Surgery site 1 Feb 2020
- Sainsbury's closed after 16-year-old stabbed in New Kent Road 17 Nov 2019
- Teenager stabbed at Elephant & Castle: police appeal for video 8 Oct 2019
- 200-room 'mid-market' hotel proposed for New Kent Road 7 Oct 2019
- Post Office gives up search to replace Great Dover Street branch 4 Jul 2019
- 'Compact living' flats proposed for New Kent Road 29 May 2019
- Mousetraps laid as Tesco at Elephant & Castle shuts for a week 25 Mar 2019
- Post Office to open in Harper Road newsagents 22 Jan 2019
- TfL plans 24-hour bus lane on Old Kent Road and New Kent Road 8 Jan 2019
- Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre turned down for listed status 29 Oct 2018
- Snap: Elephant & Castle to Birmingham by coach for £5 24 Sep 2018
- New Post Office branch opening at Elephant & Castle 21 Jul 2018
- 13-storey tower to replace KwikFit on New Kent Road 16 Jul 2018
- Old Kent Road: Southwark wins 'best masterplan' prize 11 Jul 2018
- Elephant developer sets timetable for shopping centre closure 2 Jul 2018
- Elephant & Castle shop window smashed during altercation 13 Jan 2018
- Motorcyclist killed in New Kent Road crash: appeal for witnesses 24 Nov 2017
- Westminster wants to park its rubbish trucks in Southwark 6 Nov 2017
- 80 years since Bermondsey stood up to the Blackshirts 3 Oct 2017
- 15-storey tower planned for New Kent Road Kwik Fit site 17 Aug 2017
- Man jailed for sexual assault against five women 5 Aug 2017
- TfL to seek sponsor for Bricklayers Arms roundabout 28 Jul 2017
- Shakespeare's brother's Southwark burial record goes on show 12 Jul 2017
- Police seek Coronet licence review after '250 rushed front door' 5 Jul 2017
- Elephant & Castle aluminium cladding: 'no room for complacency' 30 Jun 2017
- Two men stabbed at Charlie Chaplin pub in Elephant & Castle 22 Jun 2017
- Cyclist injured in Elephant & Castle lorry collision 5 May 2017
- URC's Crossway Christian Centre opened at Elephant & Castle 26 Apr 2017
- TfL plans safety review of Elephant & Castle southern junction 19 Apr 2017
- The Coronet: Elephant local residents trigger licence review 15 Mar 2017
- Sainsbury's opens Elephant & Castle store in New Kent Road 17 Jan 2017
- Sainsbury's delays Elephant & Castle store launch till January 8 Dec 2016
- 'Very dangerous man' jailed after Elephant Road fight 11 Nov 2016
- December opening for New Kent Road Sainsbury's 11 Oct 2016
- The Coronet to stay open for another year 24 Sep 2016
- New Kent Road school features in National Portrait Gallery show 11 Jul 2016
- Random shooting at Elephant & Castle in 1958: TV firm seeks info 21 Jun 2016
- Latest plans for Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre and LCC sites 26 May 2016
- Fire at St Matthew's Court in New Kent Road 9 May 2016
- Qatar becomes part-owner of Elephant & Castle development 5 Apr 2016
- Motorcyclist dies in hospital after Elephant & Castle collision 16 Mar 2016
- Melior Street Garden to share in Tesco carrier bag windfall 1 Mar 2016
- Elephant & Castle: crash victim named as Johanna (Ann) Hedger 24 Feb 2016
- Police appeal for witnesses to fatal collision at Elephant & Castle 9 Feb 2016
- Elderly woman killed in Elephant & Castle collision 5 Feb 2016
- Kwik Fit launches 'Fit Kwik' classes in New Kent Road 5 Jan 2016
- Coronet licence restricted after stabbing and 'gun' incident 15 Nov 2015
- Elephant & Castle pub to reopen as part of Antic group 23 Oct 2015
- New Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre redevelopment plans on show 9 Jul 2015
- Fire at Elephant & Castle kebab shop 8 Jul 2015
- End of an era as three more Elephant & Castle subways close 2 Jul 2015
- Anti-Foxtons squatters move in to Elephant & Castle pub 18 Jun 2015
- Restoration of Wurlitzer from Elephant & Castle Trocadero nears completion 15 Jun 2015
- Elephant Road development 'topped out' 12 Jun 2015
- Council: we'll work with locals to keep Foxtons out of Elephant 3 Jun 2015
- After 250 years, Elephant & Castle pub makes way for Foxtons 1 Jun 2015
- Elephant & Castle pub has licence revoked 12 Mar 2015
- Plans for new Crossway Church at Elephant & Castle approved 10 Mar 2015
- TfL confirms bus route 415 extension to Tesco Old Kent Road 27 Feb 2015
- Vince Cable visits Elephant & Castle to promote prefabricated homes 27 Feb 2015
- Victim stabbed in head with pen at Elephant & Castle pub 4 Feb 2015
- Police appeal for video of Old Kent Road car fire 13 Jan 2015
- Air ambulance called after New Kent Road motorbike crash 10 Dec 2014
- Boris Johnson at odds with own officials on future of Coronet 4 Nov 2014
- New Kent Road footbridge demolished 26 Oct 2014
- Southwark Spine cycle route to link Blackfriars Road with Dulwich 14 Oct 2014
- Calls for Coronet at E&C to be given listed building status 7 Oct 2014
- Bermondsey neighbourhood plan: council sets area, rejects groups 29 Aug 2014
- World War I hero Frederick Holmes VC commemorated in Abbey Street 28 Aug 2014
- Southwark in U-turn on plans to limit cyclists to 20 mph 24 Jul 2014
- 'Save the Coronet' campaign begins as club faces uncertain future 8 Jul 2014
- Sunday Service: photographing Southwark's black majority churches 5 Jul 2014
- New Kent Road cycle lane: are police being 'overzealous'? 4 Jul 2014
- Globe Academy pupils sign up NKR shops to CitySafe havens scheme 1 Jul 2014
- Elephant & Castle northern roundabout plans to be revealed 2 Feb 2014
- Tribeca Square: developer drops NYC-inspired name after protests 2 Feb 2014
- Delay to neighbourhood plans "squeezing the life out of process" 23 Jan 2014
- 20 years since Princess Diana opened St Matthew's-at-the-Elephant 9 Dec 2013
- Stephen Humphrey produces definitive history of Elephant & Castle 4 Dec 2013
- Eight years in jail for New Kent Road rapist 25 Nov 2013
- Tribeca Square: work starts on New Kent Road homes, cinema & supermarket 15 Nov 2013
- Woman raped on Heygate Estate: police appeal for information 6 Oct 2013
- Coronet placed on list of theatres 'at risk' 20 Sep 2013
- Pedestrian 'serious but stable' after New Kent Road collision 12 Sep 2013
- Lend Lease expects first profits from Elephant & Castle in 2016 23 Aug 2013
- Lend Lease delays redevelopment of New Kent Road side of Heygate Estate 13 May 2013
- Map: neighbourhood plans in Bankside and Bermondsey 24 Feb 2013
- Driscoll House: ITV seeks Ada Lewis House stories and memories 8 Feb 2013
- Southwark Council to build new church for Crossway URC in Hampton Street 29 Jan 2013
On the forum
- Harper Road Post Office
- Crown & Anchor pub NKR
- Hotel on New Kent Road
- Improving Bermondsey Street
- Harper Road Shops Revisited
- Harper Road - road narrowing
- Drones
- 16 New Phone boxes in Waterloo
- Liz Frazer dies aged 88
- New kiosks on New Kent Road
- Proposed new shops at the Elephant.
- Christmas Trees
- Lambeth proposal 2 way cycle lanes Roupell St etc
- Hidden fireplaces?
- Kwikfit NKR redevelopment
- New Kent Road Revisited
- Traffic through Meadow Row
- Crime scene - Rockingham Street
- Tesco Borough High Street
- Cycle lane outside new sainsburys on OKR
- traffic down Meadow Row and Rockingham
- Local Con Man - Be aware
- Sad dead cat on N K R
- The Spit and Sawdust - former Beehive
- Good Man Chinese Takeaway, New Kent Road
- Nightmare on Leathermarket Street
- Traffic on Harper Road
- Bagpipes SE1
- low flying helicopters
- New E&C plan unveiled
- Tooley Street eastbound closed for next two yrs
- Congestion
- Cars / motorbikes on Sunday night
- Road accidents
- Ban bikes
- Who is responsible for traffic light phasing?
- E & C Traffic Death
- Long Lane Pavements
- New E&C road layout appears to be working?
- B and Q
- Total travel chaos around Elephant
- TBR area Traffic
- Holiday rental 28/12 to the 6/01
- Skipton House Redevelopment - Elephant & Castle
- Vodafone coverage
- Dog show at Grow Elephant
- New Lebanese restaurant
- Dentist good with phobias
- Water pressure
- Road works and closures in SE1
- Dear Kevin Dixon! Dare to be different!
- Community Meeting with the Coronet
- Police sirens
- Abellio buses, this is The End
- Cyclist/pedestrian collision yesterday - Tower Bridge Road
- Elephant & Castle northern cycle bypass
- Bass noise around the Elephant
- Electrician - Recommendations?
- New Kent Road Police
- Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre
- Crash on New Kent Road
- Takeaways
- 1960's Toy Shop Old Kent Road
- Incident at Elephant Wednesday afternoon
- Leaves
- Car MOT
- Traffic on Long Lane
- New Kent Road footbridge demolition
- Ingredients enquiry
- Bike 'gate' on Trinity Street
- 158-162 New Kent Road (opposite BP)
- Futuristic
- Hate to post it it but noisey students moonraker point
- Internet issues
- one rule for them..
- Ministry of Sound/Coronet
- Meadow Row 1/8/14
- Tesco Long Lane - rip-off alert
- Green Parakeets in SE1
- Thank you Land Lease...
- New Kent Road cycle lane: are police being ‘overzealous’?
- Bermondsey Street closed to (through) traffic...
- Looking for a Restaurant /Take Away space in SE1
- The Beehive
- Flyover demolition
- Air pollution / traffic wardens and local police not doing their bit
- New Name for Tribeca Square
- Elephant & Walworth Neighbourhood
- New Kent Road: heavy police / ambulance presence Friday PM
- Bricklayers Arms Neighbourhood Group
- Cheap dry cleaner
- Street lights in Rockingham Street / Arch Street alleyway
- Help to Move Heavy Wardrobe
- New Kent Rd/Old Kent Rd Flyover - Convert to Park?..
- Self-storage near Elephant
- Where to buy mutton on the bone in SE1?
- Sudden increase in nighttime noise on Southwark Bridge Road area
- New Bermondsey to Borough bus route needed
- Tesco Empire Square re-opens
- Accident down New Kent Road?
- an appreciation of Elephant & Castle shopping centre
- Morning Outriders, TBR
- RTA New Kent Road
- blankety blank coaches...
- Heygate compulsory purchase order
- Baldwins sarsparilla
- Elephant & Castle Northern Roundabout - latest plans
- Tooley Street Tesco charity
- question?
- A Question regarding Trinity Square
- New Kent Road side of Heygate
- Accident on Bricklayers Arms flyover
- New Kent Road Gun Shop
- New(?) scam
- One kilometre, 3m high, wall of steel around the Heygate
- Bells of SE1
- Bakerloo Line Extension
- Bricklayer's Subways=RIP
- Chaplin Close Sheltered Housing
- Party on top of the Heygate?
- SOS Save Our Subways
- 20mph for Southwark
- Campaign for Safer Roads at Elephant and Castle "Day of Action" Friday 16th Nov
- Cycle routes from New Kent Road to Burgess Park
- Pony and trap
- Accident on New Kent Road 11/10
- JJ's Korean Bar and Restaurant, New Kent Road
- Aggressive beggar
- School child knocked by cyclist this morning - reopened
- School child knocked by cyclist this morning
- Railings removal
- Plant Massacre
- Switch Off Engines Signs
- Metal inspection covers on New Kent Road
- Another pub soon to be flats
- SE1 broadband since Olympics
- Olympic Lanes
- Bricklayer's Arms Flyover: Gone. Playing fields? Thoughts?
- TV reception problems
- The Elephant - what do you like about it?
- Virgin broadband
- Is The Elephant Your Neighbourhood?
- Accident on OKR? [New Kent Road fatal collision]
- Cynical - Southwark Council
- Horrible accident on NKR
- Roundabout at TBR and Great Dover
- Buying fireworks
- 188 Bus Problems?
- How should our area evolve and develop
- Homeless sleeping all over parks
- Buses terminating early at Elephant
- Goodbye to the 4-5-free
- Michael Caine Mural on New Kent Road
- Boris bike full docking stations
- Abellio "Buses"
- Demolition?
- Riots
- Tesco coming to More London/Tooley Street
- Five Star - That's its' name!
- Bricklayers Arms Flyover
- Allotments
- C10 diversions
- Elephant Amenity Network present Imagining The Elephant!: Sat 4th June
- Loss of cycle lanes at Elephant & Castle
- Elephant and Castle tube ghost?
- Nese restaurant
- Wabi Shebele
- Bus 63 crowding
- Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre to endure
- End of the Subways
- Hate to Post it-but THE POST
- Water Water - no not here!
- Pedestrian Crossing - Long Lane / Abbey St / TBR
- Traffic
- Shirt cleaning that doesn't individually wrap each shirt in plastic?!
- Chinese food delivery - any recommendations please?
- What's up with Albert Barnes?
- Potato
- Quirky Party Venue
- Southwark almost accolade..
- Free historic Ordnance Survey-type maps
- Great Dover Street
- 24 hr M&S Simply Food, New Kent Road, closed at 10pm
- The Elephant pub
- London cycle rental at Bricklayers Arms
- 188: bus route of misery
- Orange/Vodafone iPhone Service in SE1
- Priority Gritting?
- Old churches
- New cafe in Elephant & Castle
- 168 bus route to OKR Tesco
- Early life in Bermondsey
- Incident on the New Kent Rd
- 78 bus
- New Kent Road closed
- What happened to the two Caryatids on Heygate Estate?
- New Kent Road - Closure Sat 26 Sept 10am?
- Power Outage 22-9-09
- Digging up Borough High Street
- A parking plea
- Yates family
- Roadworks New Kent Road September - December
- Mythical E&C regeneration
- Cyclists on the Thames Path and Albert Embankment
- Jasmine Garden - Bartholomew Street
- Cycling - Tower Bridge Road
- Fire last night in New Kent Road
- Pelican crossing times
- A2 Great Dover Street
- "Dreadful" bus service on routes 1 and 78: Val Shawcross investigates
- WANTED: Moving boxes for flat move
- Snow in SE1
- Cheap alterations, trouser hemming
- SE1 on the 1911 census
- Lithuanica has closed
- Lant Street
- Re. Elephant and Castle traffic
- Garden supplies
- Moving to SE16
- Ironing in SE1
- Making Southwark's Roads Safer
- Cycle Speedway
- Schoolboy fight
- Planning applications for new housing around Elephant
- Beggars Waterloo/Borough
- Steering me..
- Disingenuous Paul Bates
- Firewood
- WW2 bombsites near Bricklayers Arms
- Local food shops near Bermondsey Street?
- BT landlines down: just my building?
- All Ireland gaelic football final
- Curious incidents in the Harper Road area
- New Kent Road on Monday
- Bermondsey Boy
- The Palatinate, New Kent Road
- E&C: back to the drawing board?
- Apple Schnapps emergency!
- Good food in the E&C shopping centre!
- Venue space
- Car Air Con Re-gas
- What is that bright light??
- Seeking a good dentist
- Riot Squads
- Rubbish collection in Southwark transformed?
- Where is Newington?
- Old Kent Road & East Street
- Mechanic/garage
- Clothing repairs and alterations
- Eileen House, Newington Causeway
- Tower plans in Elephant and Castle
- The Coronet
- Road Surface Quality in SE1
- Shad Thames - Is it really that nice?
- Southwark's Plans for Bermondsey Street
- Slamming Doors at The Glass House
- Roundabouts at Elephant
- St Mary's Churchyard, Newington Butts
- Police Sirens
- Safety on New and Old Kent Road
- Falmouth Road park: anti-social behaviour
- M&S Simply Food - New Kent Road
- Strange smell yesterday evening
- Shopping centre police-taped this evening
- New Kent Road cycle path - PLS USE IT!!!
- Tribeca Square (Oakmayne Plaza)
- Local business card vending machine?
- Driscoll House and other changes on the New Kent Road
- Tour De France - road closures
- Curious
- Parks in Southwark v Lambeth
- Elephant and Castle Pub
- Car bodywork repair
- Power cut 11pm
- Elephant & Castle Theatre
- Metro/Vantage Tower
- Bricklayer's Arms Flyover / Roundabout
- London Skyline - Evening Standard
- Tower Bridge Road Trees on Bermondsey Square
- London Park Hotel Site
- Sentences...
- Elephant Multiplex Tower
- Anti Social Behaviour - Throwing Eggs
- Perronet House
- Tito's Peruvian restaurant
- Streetcar
- Fire at Albert Barnes House, New Kent Road
- Helicopter at Bricklayers Arms
- Poor TV reception
- Old Kent Road SE1
- Bad accident in New Kent Road
- Recycling Computer keyboards
- Southwark Street crossing near Bear Lane
- 20 mile an hour zone
- Accident on Old Kent Road
- Demolition of Chaucer school etc.
- Bicycle Enforcement
- County Terrace Tavern, NKR: any memories?
- Coaches...
- Water leak on New Kent Road
- Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, Falmouth Rd
- Urban camping: sleeping outside
- Serious Assault on Trinity Street?
- Traffic on Tower Bridge Road
- Celeb sightings in SE1
- Ecuadorian lunch at the shopping centre
- Looking for child NHS dentist in SE1
- Trinity Street
- Mary Neil of 35 New Kent Road
- Urban Foxes in SE1
- pool table near elephant and castle
- New post office in Great Dover Street
- Crime in SE1
- Jumble sale
- BEWARE - Window Cleaning Scam
- SE1 on Wikipedia
- Bus Crash on New Kent Road on Wednesday Night
- Anyone used El Azteca Mexican catering?
- Bizarre-looking woman plastered in black hair dye and make-up
- New cinema on Borough High Street
- New Kent Rd Post Office closes
- Illuminated blue box on the skyline
- Dentist Recommendation?
- New guy, places to go, people to see
- Westminster Bridge roundabout
- Punk Lives in SE1
- Any Pub recommended for F1 viewing?
- Personal Trainer
- Tower Bridge Road
- All these new buildings and redevelopments - but where is the transportation infrastructure?
- New skyscraper for Elephant
- Live Music... You Missed It
- Tree Vandals- shock horror!
- Traffic jam last night
- Polish Delicatessen - Pierogies
- Live music in SE1
- Driscoll House, New Kent Road
- New Kent Road closure last night
- Ambulances
- Desperately Seeking Pool Soon
- Jam Factory area: safety?
- South American Elephant and Castle
- Garden centre in SE1
- Pink lights / Elephant & Castle
- Dentist - is that a rip-off?
- Coronet Cinema
- Helicopter at Geoffrey Chaucer School
- Looking for local computer shoppe...
- Inexpensive space required for self defence course
- Elephant refurb...
- Architecture Foundation: pointy metal building...
- SE1 in new R.E.M. video (Aftermath)
- Birds
- Looking for a dentist
- It should NOT be in SE1!
- What's wrong with old buildings?
- The New Kent Road has moved...
- Heygate Estate
- Refuse Collection
- Virtual Communities - Real Photographs
- Ambulance access - how long before there's a real tragedy?
- Tattoo Artists
- Mexican food specialist at the Elephant
- That Polish Place restaurant
- Coronet at Elephant & Castle
- Sirens
- Puddles. Is Southwark the worst ?
- Michael Caine
- Polish Restaurant New Kent Road
- Third World Postal Service
- Tabard TMC turmoil
- fireworks
- Elephant DEgeneration
- Trinty Street closed
- Burning issue
- Early Morning Sweepers..
- Dentist Recommendation/ Braces
- Southwark Refuse Disposal
- Can anyone recommend...
- Parking Permits
- Security Cameras on New Kent Rd
- Parking enforcement
- Driving through Red Lights
- Tabard Gardens
- Garage/mechanic
- CRAP Bus Drivers !
- Sainsbury's Local in Borough High St
- Policing of SE1
- Congestion Charge - the Reality! Thumbs up or down?
- Mason St. to be made one way - crazy!
- Cinema at Elephant
- ELEPHANT & CASTLE, A FILM
- Falmouth Rd & Trinity St
- Urban foxes
- Talking about refuse and mess - Bermondsey St
- Congestion Charging
- Planning application for Borough Rd/Newington Causeway
- Traffic Management Exhibition
- moving to long lane
- Nominations, please
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