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How Elephant and Castle risks becoming London’s gentrification ‘patient zero’

· The Guardian

How Elephant and Castle risks becoming London’s gentrification ‘patient zero’

Diana Sach once employed more than 30 people and catered for hundreds more every day from her Latin American restaurant and delicatessen, famous for its Peruvian empanadas, in south London’s Elephant and Castle district.

Now, she looks longingly at the shiny tall buildings that have replaced the brightly coloured but shabby shopping centre that was her home from home before being demolished in 2021.

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