Royal Vauxhall Tavern

According to Over Your Head The Royal Vauxhall Tavern is up for auction. This led me do a search on its history. While doing so, I came across this suprisingly up to date entry in Wikipedia - surprising in its up to date-ness on gay Vauxhall. Good one.

While local residents, with support from Lambeth Council, may want one thing for improving the area, Livingstone and Prescott want something else - specifically, this 50 storey tower opposite the Collosseum nightclub





And: "A group of developers ("The Vauxhall Alliance") have had their eyes on Spring Gardens" [the park behind the RVT] "for some time and have come up with a number of proposals for building on the land in return (they say) for making the whole area more attractive, releasing land nearby and so on." Ref.

So, we'll have to wait and see who buys the RVT and their intentions for it. Hopefully, the density of gay venues in this area will make it attractive to continue to run as a gay venue. But then, as the auctioneer's blurb states, it has 'development potential'.