The staff 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 will probably be named Nook Nook will probably be positioned within the house at present occupied by a procuring centre in Surrey Quays in Rotherhithe.
The Customary reported that the Southwark Council planning committee authorized 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 out there 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, dwell music, and meals and beverage shops”. It would additionally function London’s “largest indoor city vertical farm”, with produce being utilized in meals all through the venue.
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🍽️Road meals stalls from #KerbFood
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The positioning will play host to dwell 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 not too long ago allowed to stay open after a licence evaluation and crowd complaints, however it has been instructed to implement new security measures. The Tottenham venue was reported as being liable to shedding its licence final 12 months after a sequence of great incidents on the premises.
An emergency licensing evaluation was known 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 Customary). 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 related to drug use.
Printworks, in the meantime, appears to be like set to return after closing its doorways in Might final 12 months. In 2022, Southwark Council authorized plans to show it into an workplace block, however the Night time Time Industries Affiliation mentioned in September that the venue had obtained planning consent for redevelopment.
