Inside Lend Lease's £1.5bn green Elephant

Will Nichols
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'Carbon Positive' regeneration project in south London has been recognised as one of the most sustainable developments in the world

The traffic-clogged Elephant and Castle roundabout in south London is not somewhere you would immediately associate with green innovations. But this is a perception a £1.5bn regeneration project in the...

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