ULI UK Site Tour: Copeland Park & Bussey Building, Peckham

When

2022-09-29
2022-09-29T16:00:00 - 2022-09-29T18:00:00
Europe/London

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    Where

    Copeland Park & Bussey Building 133 Copeland Rd London SE15 3SN UNITED KINGDOM

    Pricing

    Pricing Members Non-Members
    All Types £25.00 £50.00
    Please note spaces for this event are limited to 25 on a first-come, first-served basis. If you are unable to register due to the event being full, please contact [email protected] to be added to the waiting list.


    We are excited to invite ULI UK members and guests to a site tour of Copeland Park and Bussey Building on Thursday 29 September, organised by the ULI UK Young Leaders Group.
     
    The session will include a tour of several exclusive spaces, and the chance to network with your fellow members. 
     
    In the 1990s, Copeland Park and Bussey Building set the bar for a grassroots, community-led creative prototype but, undoubtedly, it's the residents – a diverse community of artists, small businesses, bars, restaurants and cinemas – who have made it what it is today.

    Located minutes from Peckham Rye station, Copeland Park serves the area’s social and cultural heart by offering studios, workshops and space that enables creative businesses to flourish. From traditional, industrial spaces to derelict terraced houses, there is desk space for architecture, graphic design and photography practices, and studios and exhibit space for painters, carpenters, textile and ceramic makers.

    The Bussey is home to arts and fitness studios, a nightclub, community theatre and faith groups, and a rooftop cinema with unparalleled views over London while a multi-storey retail premises with art-deco frontage is housed within the remains of the 1930s Holdrons department store.

    Emphasis on community is paramount, and Copeland Park works with local groups to retain the area’s cultural diversity and vitality. In fact, a key factor in this cultural quarter’s success is how West African churches, mosques, street-food vendors, jewellers and tailors rub shoulders with creatives and entrepreneurs in, what many would deem, London’s most authentic and real neighbourhood.

    At Copeland Park, it’s clear to see why this blueprint for a small business ecosystem is unrivalled anywhere else in the City, and how integral sites like this are to any thriving, creative community.