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 website might be named Nook Nook might be situated within the house presently occupied by a buying centre in Surrey Quays in Rotherhithe.
The Commonplace reported that the Southwark Council planning committee permitted 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 out there from spring 2025.
Nook Nook will take up 50,000 sq. toes and can overlook Canada Dock. It is going to function a ”cultural hub”, with “collaborative workspaces, reside music, and meals and beverage shops”. It is going to additionally function London’s “largest indoor city vertical farm”, with produce being utilized in meals all through the venue.
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The positioning will play host to reside 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 overview and crowd complaints, but it surely has been instructed to implement new security measures. The Tottenham venue was reported as being susceptible to dropping its licence final yr after a collection of significant incidents on the premises.
An emergency licensing overview 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 Commonplace). 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 Could final yr. In 2022, Southwark Council permitted plans to show it into an workplace block, however the Evening Time Industries Affiliation stated in September that the venue had obtained planning consent for redevelopment.