Green light for BBC Elstree studio revamp

Proposals embrace reworking present studios and ancillary areas into 266,000 sq ft of recent media campus for the high-end TV and impartial movie business.

The remaining 50% of the 16-acre website was not too long ago upgraded by the BBC, which occupies the positioning below 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 undertaking, with building deliberate to start out later this yr 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 house to roughly 100,000 sq ft throughout 5 state-of-the-art sound levels, ranging in dimension from 16,000 to 21,000 sq ft.

The enlargement additionally provides new workshops, places of work, a café, base camp, backlot, and improved cycle and parking services.

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

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