This past weekend, New Covent Garden Market added brand new football pitches to the neighbourhood through a collaboration with Powerleague. These include five 5-a-side and one 7-a-side football pitches as well as a high-tech skills zone. With these football pitches, Covent Garden Market Authority and their development partners VINCI St. Modwen are providing the first new sports facilities in […]
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Visual artist Yinka Ilori has been named as the winner of a competition to revitalise the Thessaly Road Railway Bridge: an initiative to improve the public realm around Nine Elms organised by the London Festival of Architecture and Wandsworth Council. The bridge enhancement will be accompanied by the first phase of Wandsworth Council investment to […]
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On Saturday 22 September 2018, 10am – 4pm, Powerleague will be officially launching our new football pitches here at New Covent Garden Market with a community day. Operated by Powerleague, these five 5-a-side pitches and one 7-a-side pitch are a much-desired new sports facility for our neighbours who have long wanted immediate and direct access […]
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Founded in 2008, Above The Stag is a prominent London theatre focusing on LGBT+ themed theatre off the West End. Where does the name come from? Back in ’08, the theatre was located above The Stag pub in Victoria, London. However, in 2012, the pub was demolished and the theatre was in search of a […]
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From a 22 metre-wide whale mural to designs of the Thessaly Road bridge, our local schools are brimming with creativity, energy and activity. Like all parts of London, Nine Elms has an array of schools dotted throughout the area. Here’s a brief snapshot of each one that you may not know is around the corner: Wyvil […]
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Nine Elms has three noticeboards which share all the exciting events, programmes, festivals, art projects and goings on in the neighbourhood! Don’t miss the latest features and check out the local map at the noticeboard locations on the riverside at Bourne Valley Wharf, on Thessaly Road and Battersea Park Road. The bespoke community noticeboards signpost cultural events and artworks and […]
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