Group behind Drumsheds and Printworks to open new South London venue
The workforce 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 shall be named Nook Nook shall be positioned within the house at the moment occupied by a procuring centre in Surrey Quays in Rotherhithe.
The Standard reported that the Southwark Council planning committee accredited 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 can be obtainable from spring 2025.
Nook Nook will take up 50,000 sq. toes and can overlook Canada Dock. It would function a ”cultural hub”, with “collaborative workspaces, stay music, and meals and beverage shops”. It would additionally characteristic London’s “largest indoor city vertical farm”, with produce being utilized in meals all through the venue.
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The location 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 stated they don’t plan to host common late-night occasions.
Elsewhere, Drumsheds was just lately allowed to stay open after a licence evaluate and crowd complaints, nevertheless it has been instructed to implement new security measures. The Tottenham venue was reported as being vulnerable to shedding its licence final yr after a collection of great incidents on the premises.
An emergency licensing evaluate was referred to as for following the dying 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 Standard). On December 7, a 29-year-old lady additionally died in hospital after Bicep‘s The Hydra present at Drumsheds, with police believing that it was additionally related to drug use.
Printworks, in the meantime, appears to be like set to return after closing its doorways in Could final yr. In 2022, Southwark Council accredited plans to show it into an workplace block, however the Evening Time Industries Affiliation stated in September that the venue had acquired planning consent for redevelopment.