Category:Queen Elizabeth Hall, Undercroft

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The undercroft of the Queen Elizabeth Hall's foyer building has been popular with skateboarders since the early 70's and it is widely acknowledged to be London's most distinctive and popular skateboarding area. The area is used by skateboarders, BMXers, graffiti artists, taggers, photographers, buskers, and performance artists, among others. A photographic archive of the graffiti can be found at The Graffiti Archaeology Project. Although this informal activity, social and arts scene is a distinctive feature of the Southbank Centre site, it was proposed that the area would be redeveloped. However a statement from the Prime Minister's office (reported in Time Out, in August 2008) may save the undercroft for these uses.

A new effort by the Southbank Centre is being pursued to radically change the area and move the skatepark. This is being opposed by the Long Live Southbank Campaign.

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