Quayside Quarter Creative Hub
Southall, London Borough of Ealing
We were appointed by Galliard Homes as part of a multi-disciplinary team including architectural practices EPR, Levitt Bernstein and AHR to implement the Quayside Quarter Masterplan, on the six-hectare site of the former Honey Monster cereal factory at Southall, in the London Borough of Ealing.
The masterplan, by EPR and landscape architects Gillespies, will provide over 28,000m² of industrial-focused creative employment space and 1,997 new homes. Its site, part of the Southall Opportunity Area Planning Framework, offers a unique opportunity to deliver an ‘exemplar-in-design’, residential-led, mixed-use neighbourhood; this aims to achieve significant employment intensification, including a creative filming hub and well-connected public realm which celebrates the presence of the historic canal.
Proximity to Southall’s new Crossrail station and the opportunity to improve local bus services and cycle ways, ensure Quayside Quarter will be remarkably well connected to the employment and business opportunities in west London, central London and beyond.
Our design for the Creative Industrial Hub, with a focus around film and TV, occupies one of the nine mixed-use blocks on the site. It seeks to build upon the rich local history of film studios in the area and serve a recognised demand for studio space.
More than just a TV and Film production facility, the aspiration is for a hub serving the various creative industries including skills development activities. It will include purpose built sound stages; an eight-storey production building comprising of workshops, pre- and post-production space, associated film industry office space and ancillary uses including screening rooms, restaurants and a roof top winter garden; and a multi-storey car park linked to it.
Consultants
Masterplanning: EPR
Architecture: AHR, EPR, Levitt Bernstein, PRS
Planning: GL Hearn
Engineering: Buro Happold
Transport: Steer
Landscape: Gillespie