Hackney Wick - The Creative Heart of London
- 1. CONTACTS For more information, please contact Hackney Council’s Hackney Wick Town Centre Co-ordinator: 020 8356 3898 Hacknex Hackney WickED festival © annaml productions. www.hackneywicked.com YICK HACKNEY Produced by Hackney Design, Communications & Print • March 2012 • PJ46942
- 2. Walthamstow Central Manor House Finsbury Park Stamford Hill Waltham Leytonstone Forest Stoke Newington Clapton BARKING Rectory Road Hackney KEY Leyton Dalston Dalston Hackney Wanstead Park Kingsland Downs Canonbury Hackney Homerton Creative hub Central Hackney Dalston Highbury Junction Hackney & Islington Wick Stratford London Wick Olympic 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Park and venues Islington Haggerston Fields Park London Overground Crossrail 1 Shoreditch West Central Line Hoxton Ham District Line Bethnal Green Mile Bow Docklands Light Railway End Church Camden Bethnal Green Hammersmith & City Line Jubilee Line Shoreditch High Street Newham Piccadilly Line Victoria Line Tower Northern Line City of Liverpool Street Hamlets Mainline Sevices London Canning Town Bank International airport City of Shadwell Tower Westminster Hill Tower London Gateway City Airport Canary Wharf King North George V Greenwich London Crosharbour Bridge
- 3. Hackney as a whole has seen 21% business growth since 2004, nearly double London’s average rate, and we are committed to maintaining the conditions that will allow this trend to continue. This growth has been concentrated primarily in digital media, technology and consulting. Wick is an area rich in potential, home to almost a third of the Olympic Park, including the International Broadcast Centre and Main Press Centre which will bring unrivalled digital connectivity to the area, and part of the East London Tech City initiative. Major transport improvements have already been made in the area with direct links to the Underground network and excellent international connections, with further improvements planned. Multi-million-pound plans are also in place to H ackney Wick on the edge of the Olympic improve Hackney Wick Overground station during Park is home to one of London’s the next three years. This investment will provide the fastest-growing and most innovative opportunity to transform the area around the station business and creative communities. and make it a fitting hub for a destination that will offer business space, restaurants, new homes, cafés, The former mills and plastics factories from the shops and parklands, as well as a 6,000-seat multi- previous industrial centre now house over 600 creative use venue. industry workspaces where architects, photographers, digital artists and designers with a global reach There are ambitious plans for the wider area after work side by side. Around this highly entrepreneurial Games time with new parkland and whole new and knowledge-based business community is a neighbourhoods being created, bringing even greater growing café, arts and leisure culture as galleries, opportunities for business growth. This brochure will festivals, pop-ups and restaurants develop amidst this tell you more about what Hackney Wick can offer your burgeoning creative district. business, and why you should move to one of the most exciting, dynamic and creative parts of London. FOREWORD Jules Pipe Mayor of Hackney
- 4. Hackney Wick and Fish Island have potential to be the New Soho, if the right advantage is taken of new media infrastructure and the existing arts community is supported to grow into the Olympic Park. Space Studios
- 5. YOUR om Hacknex the wicked.c “ ey w.hackn CUSTOMERS place ions. ww l product © annam M edian household income for Hackney Hackney Wick is situated in a highly entrepreneurial Wick is £36,920, compared with £21,949 local economy: the borough’s number of new in Newham, and £38,745 for Islington. business starts grew by four per cent from 2004- 2009, while the number of new start-ups in London Hackney Wick is home to 12,000 people and has as a whole decreased by six per cent over the same experienced eight per cent growth in the past two period. The galleries, pop-up exhibitions and art years alone, and more than four times that of installations in the old waterside warehouses mix Shoreditch. Local residents live and work in what with a growing hospitality sector for entertaining is considered by many to be one of the most up- clients, networking or socialising after work, such and-coming and fashionable places in London, as the Hackney Pearl. with new housing developments such as Telford Hackney WickED festival © annaml productions. www.hackneywicked.com Homes’ Matchmakers Wharf development taking New small offices, studios and workspaces are advantage of this. planned with ACME studios, offering 50 brand new spaces to artists on their waiting list, with London The area has close to 3,000 employees and business Thames Gateway Development Corporation proposing owners, with new residential and commercial a significant creative workspace of circa 6,000sqm, development plans including space for a possible as part of the Hackney Wick Hub development. 1,500 new homes, and up to 134,000sqm of commercial floorspace, including that associated The area has even created its own arts festival, with the International Broadcast Centre and Main Hackney WickED, staged by local artists to promote Press Centre. the work of international and local practitioners through local galleries. The three-day event last year hosted more than 25,000 people, with access given to more than 20 buildings in the area to create pop-up galleries and studios, in addition to music, open studios, graffiti jams and workshops.
- 6. Leyton HACKNEY WICK, WANSTEAD PARK WOODGRANGE PARK n THE OLYMPICS & A LEGACY Hackney Wick BARKING Stratford A total of 91,000 square metres of new There will also be opportunities for boat moorings West workspace with the unrivalled power and along the Lee Navigation, while the Olympic Park Ham digital connectivity of the Olympic Park will Legacy Company proposes a new cultural centre Mile Bow be provided after the Games in the International along with a health centre, energy centre and End Church Broadcast Centre and Main Press Centre, visitor centre. both based in Hackney Wick – enough digital infrastructure for a city of 250,000 people. After the Games, the Wick’s Handall Arena will become a 6,000-seat multi use sports venue with flexibility for hosting a range of large sporting, Canning Town Energy BECKTON cultural and entertainment events allied with After Games time, the Olympic Park’s Wick-based regular community use. Cooling and Heating Plant will have the potential to serve not only the legacy venues but also all The north-west of the Olympic Park, now named London new development in the area. City Airport Canary Wharf East Wick, will feature a mixed-use neighbourhood along with town houses, mews maisonettes and KING apartments. These will be built within a new GEORGE V creative district incorporating the Main Press Centre and International Broadcast Centre. WOOLWICH Crosharbour A North primary school, two nurseries, a community FERRY ABBEY WOOD centre, and new shops will serve the area. Greenwich Charlton WOOLWICH ARSENAL Greenwich Lewisham
- 7. OFFICE KEY Spatial Vision and HOMES INFORMATION MEDIA TECH CITY JOBS Character Areas EMPLOYMENT news EDUCATION services Hackney Wick Hub TECHNOLOGY Creative Media City amenity Creative RETAIL CULTURE GREEN SPACE Hackney Wick North family Media City COMMUNITY entertainment LOCAL SPORTS events LEISURE SERVICES HACKNEY MUSV NEW WICK HOMES RESTAURANTS market HUB CULTURE BARS mixed use SHOPS EMPLOYMENT WORKSHOPS ARTISTS RETAIL CREATIVE INDUSTRIES LOCAL FACILITIES GALLERIES HOMES
- 8. London Thames Gateway Development Corporation has approved plans for the Hackney Wick Hub (pictured)
- 9. INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT LINKS H ackney Wick is 15 minutes away from This is part of an orbital route around and into London City Airport’s global business the capital, due to complete by late 2012 linking destinations, and 45 minutes away from Surrey Quays in the south east with Clapham Stansted Airport. The London Overground Junction – meaning Hackney Wick would be barely station at Hackney Wick connects the area to half an hour from south west London Six regular Europe via St Pancras, Stratford and Ashford bus routes also stop within the Wick area serving international stations. destinations including Liverpool Street, Shoreditch and London Bridge. Further frequency and capacity London Overground is not only linked to the improvements are planned as part of the 2012 Underground network at Highbury & Islington and legacy development work. Stratford, but provides a regular, swift and direct service to north, west and south west London An example of a company making use of Hackney including to Acton, Shepherd’s Bush, Richmond, Wick’s well-connected location and affordable Imperial Wharf and Clapham Junction. space is major international distributor Central m eywicked.co Books, which employs 40 staff, and housing five million books on site from 200 publishers. www.hackn . productions © annaml
- 10. ARTS, CULTURE & THE ECONOMY H ackney Wick is home to a maturing The scene now has its own annual festival, economy made up of globally-acclaimed, Hackney Wicked, celebrating this creativity award-winning artists such as Gavin and allowing the public a glimpse of the art Turk and the Chapman Brothers; workspace world through a three-day programme of open providers such as Space Studios; and galleries studios and exhibitions. Hackney WickED is run The Smokehouse, See Studios, Schwartz Gallery as a Community Interest Company - for more and Top and Tail Gallery. information, visit www.hackneywickedfestival.co.uk Creativity thrives in over 600 creative industry workspaces hosting exhibitions, film screenings, live music and more. For example, The Yard, based at Queen’s Yard E9, is a performance space Hackney WickED festival © annaml productions. www.hackneywicked.com that has hosted theatrical productions, and was transformed recently into what was thought to be London’s only warehouse cinema. These spaces Hackney WickED festival © annaml productions. www.hackneywicked.com and venues are supported by art galleries, places to meet and eat and pop-up projects which also function as meeting space for clients.
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- 13. YOUR BUSINESS HERE T he legacy of the Games in Hackney Wick Hackney Wick’s location, excellent transport will enable you to do business at the links, state-of-the-art connectivity and enormous Olympic Park, in one of London’s best- post-Games prospects have attracted a range of connected commercial locations. creative businesses, from independent television, post-production, hire and lighting are making The area is home to a thriving economy, an the Wick their home. example beginning with creative enterprises, which are serviced by affordable and flexible Digital, arts and media agencies which have workspace and a strong hospitality sector, relocated to the Wick during the past two years through to interaction with clients and customers include media consultancy DIA; broadcast in galleries and exhibition spaces. recruiter The Crewing Company; sound designers Radium Audio; and online mail Hackney WickED festival © annaml productions. www.hackneywicked.com order company, Vinyl Pimp. DIA Media Group even t.
- 14. The DIA Media Group has all of its companies’ headquarters in Hackney Wick for a number of reasons. We had been operating all of our offices from sites including Westminster, Camden, and Buckinghamshire and needed to bring them all together under one roof, so we required a space that was large enough and affordable. Being in the heart of a regeneration zone sees the landscape and outlook change on a daily basis, which is an amazing catalyst for creative thinking. Hackney Wick will no doubt become a perfect hotbed for new businesses and families to live and work alongside each other for many years after the London 2012 Games. David Brady, Joint MD, DIA Media Group
- 15. Walthamstow Central Manor House Finsbury Park Stamford Hill Waltham Leytonstone Forest Stoke Newington Clapton BARKING Rectory Road Hackney KEY Leyton Dalston Dalston Hackney Wanstead Park Kingsland Downs Canonbury Hackney Homerton Creative hub Central Hackney Dalston Highbury Junction Hackney & Islington Wick Stratford London Wick Olympic 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Park and venues Islington Haggerston Fields Park London Overground Crossrail 1 Shoreditch West Central Line Hoxton Ham District Line Bethnal Green Mile Bow Docklands Light Railway End Church Camden Bethnal Green Hammersmith & City Line Jubilee Line Shoreditch High Street Newham Piccadilly Line Victoria Line Tower Northern Line City of Liverpool Street Hamlets Mainline Sevices London Canning Town Bank International airport City of Shadwell Tower Westminster Hill Tower London Gateway City Airport Canary Wharf King North George V Greenwich London Crosharbour Bridge
- 16. CONTACTS For more information, please contact Hackney Council’s Hackney Wick Town Centre Co-ordinator: 020 8356 3898 Hacknex Hackney WickED festival © annaml productions. www.hackneywicked.com YICK HACKNEY Produced by Hackney Design, Communications & Print • March 2012 • PJ46942