Planning consent was secured in December 2025. Enabling and demolition works are now complete, and main build construction works commenced in April 2026.
Around half of the 16-acre site is to be transformed into a 266,000 sq ft state-of-the-art campus for the high-end TV and independent film industry, which will be operational late in 2027. The remainder of the site was recently upgraded by the BBC, which occupies the space under a long-term lease and is where it films its flagship drama EastEnders, one of the UK鈥檚 longest running soap operas. The historic campus first opened as a film studio in 1914.
The brownfield redevelopment will enable the studio complex to remain commercially competitive by significantly expanding the site鈥檚 production capacity, more than quadrupling the stage space to approximately 100,000 sq ft across five state-of-the-art sound stages, ranging in size from 16,000 to 21,000 sq ft. The expansion will add new workshops, offices and a caf茅, alongside a 58,000 sq ft media hub offering office and amenity spaces exclusively to media-related industries and businesses directly connected to the studios.