The group behind the London nightclubs Drumsheds and Printworks have introduced they’re opening a brand new venue in South London.
The brand new 2,000-capacity web site might be named Nook Nook might be positioned within the house at present occupied by a buying centre in Surrey Quays in Rotherhithe.
The Commonplace reported that the Southwark Council planning committee authorised the plans for the venue and occasion house at a gathering on February 5. The plans had been submitted by property builders British Land, in partnership with Broadwick, who say they hope the house could be accessible from spring 2025.
Nook Nook will take up 50,000 sq. ft and can overlook Canada Dock. It’s going to function a ”cultural hub”, with “collaborative workspaces, stay music, and meals and beverage shops”. It’s going to additionally characteristic London’s “largest indoor city vertical farm”, with produce being utilized in meals all through the venue.
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🍽️Avenue meals stalls from #KerbFood
🌿Contemporary produce from Harvest London
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The positioning will play host to stay music and ticketed DJ occasions, with plans permitting for the venue to open till 3am at weekends, topic to licensing permission, though British Land have mentioned they don’t plan to host common late-night occasions.
Elsewhere, Drumsheds was lately allowed to stay open after a licence evaluate and crowd complaints, however it has been instructed to implement new security measures. The Tottenham venue was reported as being liable to dropping its licence final 12 months after a sequence of great incidents on the premises.
An emergency licensing evaluate was referred to as for following the demise of a 27-year-old man who had attended a Drumsheds occasion on October 12. The incident is believed to be drug-related (as per Commonplace). On December 7, a 29-year-old girl additionally died in hospital after Bicep‘s The Hydra present at Drumsheds, with police believing that it was additionally linked to drug use.
Printworks, in the meantime, seems set to return after closing its doorways in Might final 12 months. In 2022, Southwark Council authorised plans to show it into an workplace block, however the Evening Time Industries Affiliation mentioned in September that the venue had obtained planning consent for redevelopment.
