Green light for BBC Elstree studio revamp

Proposals embody remodeling present studios and ancillary areas into 266,000 sq ft of recent media campus for the high-end TV and unbiased movie trade.

The remaining 50% of the 16-acre web site was just lately upgraded by the BBC, which occupies the positioning beneath a long-term lease, primarily to movie its flagship drama, EastEnders.

Specialist movie and TV studio developer and operator Oxygen Studios has been appointed to advise on the venture, with building deliberate to start out later this 12 months creating 390 jobs.

AXA IM Alts will rebrand the campus as ‘Fairbanks Studios’, reflecting its heritage, having been owned and operated by Hollywood legend Douglas Fairbanks Jr within the Fifties.

Designs by UMC Architects, will considerably increase the positioning’s manufacturing capability—greater than quadrupling the stage area to roughly 100,000 sq ft throughout 5 state-of-the-art sound levels, ranging in measurement from 16,000 to 21,000 sq ft.

The enlargement additionally provides new workshops, workplaces, a café, base camp, backlot, and improved cycle and parking amenities.

A brand new ‘Media Hub’ will provide 58,000 sq ft of workplace and amenity areas throughout 5 storeys, devoted solely to media-related industries and companies immediately related to the studios.

Designed in a contemporary Artwork Deco model, it would function a hanging landmark that displays and celebrates the studio’s historic character.