Unemployment tends to run at about twice the national average.
Development of previously derelict docklands, flats for example, is breathing new life into the region. As well as the Surrey and Rotherhithe docks the seat includes Southwark Cathedral, London Bridge station, Guy's Hospital, the Elephant and Castle shopping centre. Cool Delfina is a large artists' studio facility and restaurant housed in a renovated Victorian factory in Bankside, Central London. Extensive white industrial spaces provide separate areas for exhibitions, studios events, parties and the highly acclaimed restaurant, which helps to fund the largest and most prestigious international residency programme in Britain. We don't make money from these links.