Old Kent Road health centre and a number of primary and secondary schools. Officials have also suggested the development of a "green spine" of parks and green spaces along the mostly disused Surrey Canal. Old Kent Road is the first property square on the British Monopoly board, priced at £60 and forming the brown set along with the similarly working-class Whitechapel Road. It is the only square on the board in South London and south of the Thames. The road makes several appearances in literature. In Charles Dickens' "David Copperfield", the titular character runs down the road trying to escape from London to
New Kent Road Grow Elephant project has a temporary site at 100 New Kent Road. Crossway United Reformed Church was last part of the Heygate Estate that remained standing, until it closed in 2017. The "Two Caryatids" sculpture by Henry Poole, originally created in 1897 for the old Rotherhithe Public Library, stood in a locked garden behind the church for many years, but was removed in 2009 At 128 New Kent Road, Watling House is a new development of flats managed by the Landmark Housing Association. The distinctive Baroque style building at 172-180 is Driscoll House. It was originally built as a women's