Hackney Wick - The Creative Heart of London

CONTACTS
For more information, please
contact Hackney Council’s
Hackney Wick Town Centre
Co-ordinator:

020 8356 3898

Hacknex

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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
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Jubilee Line
Shoreditch
High Street Newham Piccadilly Line
Victoria Line
Tower Northern Line
City of Liverpool Street Hamlets Mainline Sevices
London Canning Town
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International airport
City of Shadwell
Tower
Westminster Hill Tower London
Gateway City Airport
Canary Wharf
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Greenwich

London Crosharbour
Bridge

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

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.
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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

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.

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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
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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.
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Crosharbour A North
primary school, two nurseries, a community FERRY ABBEY
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centre, and new shops will serve the area.
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OFFICE
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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

London Thames Gateway Development
Corporation has approved plans for the
Hackney Wick Hub (pictured)

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

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million books on site from 200 publishers.

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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

that has hosted theatrical productions, and was
transformed recently into what was thought to be
London’s only warehouse cinema. These spaces

and venues are supported by art galleries, places
to meet and eat and pop-up projects which also
function as meeting space for clients.

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

order company, Vinyl Pimp.

DIA Media
Group even
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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

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