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White City Place

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From BBC Media Complex to
Residential Village

Not many people will be able to say

the outer circle of the site. 450 of the

built as a brand new range of facilities will

that they were a part of the BBC’s her-

flats and apartments are now on sale

also be opened. This is part of an £8bn

itage, but now 5,000 people will soon

with prices starting at a hefty £500,000

investment for White City and it will

be a little step closer as a brand new

for a one-bedroom flat, to the penthous-

include a residential area, television stu-

development is underway in West

es with a price tag of £7m.

dios, offices and restaurants amongst other

London. Almost a thousand new

An official launch will take place in

homes are being built in place of the

April 2016 with the first phase of homes

The site was sold to developer

BBC’s Media Village to create the

expected to be completed before the end

Stanhope and Japanese company Mitsui

newly named, White City Place. The

of 2017. Alongside the first phase open-

Fudosan UK Ltd for £87m as a sublet of

likes of Strictly Come Dancing and

ing

will be an expansion of the

4 acres of land. It’s not the end of the

Blue Peter were recorded at the site as

Westfield shopping centre which will

BBC at this site as it will still occupy

the space was originally home to the

now have John Lewis’s biggest ever

some of the area for television studios.

BBC Television Centre for over 50

department store at the forefront.

The studios will be refurbished and re-

years before its closure in 2013.
The core will be host to the apartments and penthouses with more apartments and town houses being built in

Almost a thousand new
homes are being built
in place of the BBC’s
Media Village to create
the newly named,
White City Place.

However, it is not just homes being

projects stretched over 145 acres of land.

opened by the end of 2016.