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 situated within the house presently occupied by a procuring centre in Surrey Quays in Rotherhithe.
The Normal reported that the Southwark Council planning committee authorized the plans for the venue and occasion house at a gathering on February 5. The plans have been submitted by property builders British Land, in partnership with Broadwick, who say they hope the house can be accessible from spring 2025.
Nook Nook will take up 50,000 sq. ft and can overlook Canada Dock. It’ll function a ”cultural hub”, with “collaborative workspaces, dwell music, and meals and beverage shops”. It’ll 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
🌿Contemporary produce from Harvest London
🎵Reside jazz & DJs curated by @Broadwick_Live
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The location 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 just lately allowed to stay open after a licence evaluate and crowd complaints, but it surely has been instructed to implement new security measures. The Tottenham venue was reported as being susceptible to shedding its licence final 12 months after a collection of great incidents on the premises.
An emergency licensing evaluate was known 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 Normal). 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 linked to drug use.
Printworks, in the meantime, appears 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.
