DIGBETH LOC. STUDIOS

Fazeley Street, Warwick Bar

Birmingham

PROJECT TEAM:

Partners: Steven Knight, Piers Read of TIME+SPACE

Architects: BIG Projects

Others: Homes England, BCC, WMCA

Operator: TIME+SPACE

Managed: Digbeth Loc. Studios Ltd

Funding: £1.3M (City Deal: BCC & Homes England)

Targeted Completion: July 2023

DIGBETH LOC. STUDIOS

Digbeth Loc. Studios is to become a premier production centre, where TV and movies on an international scale will be made.

Kicking off work is the conversion of disused Victorian-era buildings into an 80K SF modern, state-of-the-art studio complex with three film studios, production offices, and construction workshops.

Supporting 760 local jobs and contributing more than £30 million to the economy, Digbeth Loc. is the brainchild of Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders) and Time+Space (Piers Read).

Their ambition is to ensure that the city has a long-term cultural legacy by welcoming major, blue-chip brands to the multimedia HQ.

The first phase will see Shine TV, part of Banijay UK (MasterChef), move into the adjacent Banana Warehouse in 2024, with more work across the site in the pipeline. A site plan showing these will be amended per phase.

Wider plans will see the Birmingham Film Academy (the London Film Academy’s new sister wing); a base for reggae band UB40; training for local residents; restaurants, a hotel, and bars. Advanced talks are also in place for an outpost of the media industry’s most famous chain of clubs, Soho House.

Other productions already committed with Digbeth Loc. Studios (with others to be revealed soon) include the BBC drama This Town (made by Kudos, a Banijay UK company).

Images from TIME+SPACE.

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