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Huge new riverfront music and food attraction to open in UK capital, as part of £4billion redevelopment
Plus, looking for a new boozer to visit in the city? Sun Travel reveals their favourite pubs in the area...
PART of south-east London will be transformed in the next few years thanks to a huge new development taking place in London.
A new multi-use space called Corner Corner is set to open at Surrey Quays Shopping Centre.
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Located in Canada Water, Corner Corner will house a new music venue, a food hall and an indoor farm, in a disused branch of The Range.
While the 1980s shopping centre is due to be demolished in the next few years, Corner Corner has been allowed to open with plans approved by Southwark Council Planning Committee last week.
The site is being developed by British Land.
It will be open for five years and be home to interactive attractions like a new Minecraft Experience.
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Minecraft Experience: Villager Rescue is slated to open in Corner Corner in early April and will feature seven rooms based on the best-selling video game.
Following the closure of the nearby nightclub Printworks, Corner Corner will have its own music venue where jazz and other 'low-key' music events will be held.
On Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights, Corner Corner hopes to be allowed to stay open until 3am, with DJs slated to perform on Thursday evenings, and ticketed shows taking place on Friday and Saturday nights.
Meanwhile, the indoor vertical farm has already been dubbed London's largest commercial farm.
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It will supply fresh groceries to the on-site food hall and restaurants in the local area.
Cooking activities will also take place under the plans.
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Roger Madelin, Head of Canada Water at British Land, said: "This new cultural venue is a totally fresh concept, and securing consent to deliver our proposed vision is fantastic recognition of the critical role Canada Water has within London’s cultural offering."
Corner Corner is part of a wider £4billion renovation taking place in Canada Water.
Known as the Canada Water masterplan, the huge new project will create London's first new town centre for 50 years, with new shops, homes and offices being built under the scheme.
A new tower block will have 384 new homes, nearly half of which promise to be affordable.
The roof will be home to a communal garden for residents, with play spaces, meeting places and allotments also slated to feature on the site.
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A Tesco Extra superstore will be located on the ground floor, making shopping convenient.
Several other huge developments are also taking place across the English capital, including a huge £125million redevelopment taking place in Ealing.
The Ealing development will include a leisure centre with a 50 metre Olympic swimming pool.
Slated to open in 2027, the new London attraction will include a waterpark with slides and a lazy river.
And ITV's former headquarters on London's South Bank are set to be transformed over the next four years.
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Developers Mitsubishi Estate plan to transform the site into a mixed-use space featuring riverside restaurants and bars overlooking the Thames.
When the 2.5 acre site opens in 2029, it will be home to cafes, cultural venues and green spaces.
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London's best pubs
THE Sun's Head of Travel (Digital) Caroline McGuire has named some of her favourites and why.
LONDON is chock full of fantastic pubs.
Whether you're looking for an old man's boozer, a gastro pub or a cosy pitstop with a roaring fire, there is the perfect pub for everyone in the capital.
My top tip? Try to avoid the ones in the tourist spots of Covent Garden, Leicester Square, and so on, unless you've got a recommendation. No self-respecting Londoner would be seen dead in them.
Here is a selection of our favourite London pubs, from some of the heaviest drinkers we know...
Central London:
- Guinea Grill, Mayfair - great steak and pies
- The Portman, Marble Arch
- Star & Garter, Soho - proper spit and sawdust pub
- The George, Mortimer Street - great all rounder
- Burlington Arm, off Saville Row - Great scotch egg
- The Red Lion, Crown Passage - dark, old and interesting history with Charles II and his mistress Nell Gwyn
- Ye Grapes, Shepherds Market
- The Chesterfield Arms, Hertford Street - super cute
- The Newman Arms, Fitzrovia
- The Lamb & Flag, Mayfair
- Sun and 13 Cantons, Soho
- Dog And Duck on Frith Street, Soho
- The French House, Soho
- Coach and Horses (Greek St). Soho
- Ship & Shovel on Craven Passage, off Embankment
- The Crown & Two Chairmen on Dean Street, Soho
- Nellie Dean on Dean Street, Soho
- The Toucan, Carlisle Street in Soho - so small that you have to stand outside but still an institution
- Bradleys Spanish Bar, Hanway Street near Oxford Street
- Blue Post, Berwick Street, Soho - you can take your own lunch in
- The Eagle in Farringdon, cool gastro pub
- Lore Of The Land to this, Fitzrovia - owned by Guy Ritchie
Outside of central London:
- The George, Borough SE1
- Royal Oak, Columbia Road, East London
- Cutty Sark Greenwich, South East London
- The Royal Oak, Tabard St, SE1
- The Prospect of Whitby, Wapping, East London
- The Lord Clyde, Borough, SE1
- Dog and Bell (Deptford), South East London
- Efra Tavern (Brixton), South West London
- Skehan's in Telegraph Hill, South East London
- The Ivyhouse (London's first community pub) in Nunhead, South East London
- The Culpeper in Aldgate, East London
- The City Barge, Chiswick, West London
- Windsor Castle in Notting Hill, West London
- The Sun in Splendour, Notting Hill
- The Albert, Princess road, Primrose Hill, West London
- The Cow, Notting Hill, West London
- The Spaniards Inn, Hampstead, North West London
- The Parakeet Pub in Kentish Town, North West London
- The Lord Clyde in Borough, SE1 - proper old man's pub
- Golden Heart on Hanbury St, Spitalfields, East London
The UK's busiest train station is also undergoing a multi-billion development.
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