U.K.’s Sunset Studios Plans 21 Sound Stages, Gym and Daycare as Part of $1 Billion Investment

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K.J. Yossman Sunset Studios’ first U.K. site intends to offer twenty-one sound stages, 9 workshops, 7 production officers, a daycare and a gym, planning documents reveal.The film and TV studio facility, which is a co-development by Sunset Studios owners Hudson Pacific Properties and private equity firm Blackstone Group, is being built in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire.

Hudson Pacific and Blackstone purchased the 91-acre site, which is approximately an hour’s drive from central London, for £120 million ($167 million).

The site is now set to become one of the U.K.’s largest film and media complexes.Now, documents submitted to the local council by planning and development consultants CBRE show the full vision for Sunset Studios, which will be Hudson Pacific’s first international expansion.

The planning documents show that Sunset Studios hopes to demolish existing structures on the site, which include a former dairy and a motor car workshop, and build 21 sound stages, nine workshops, 7 production offices and staff amenity facilities including a gym, daycare and food hall.There are also plans to create a 30,000 metre squared backlot, 2 multi-storey carparks and a substantial open space that will include landscaped areas and a pond, plus a mobility hub catering for a bus stop, taxis, limousine drop off and pick ups, electric buggies for on-site use, electric car charging and valet parking.Meanwhile, some protected (listed) buildings on the site will be restored and put back into use.Sunset Studios, who, in the U.S., have housed productions including “La La Land” and “When Harry Met Sally,” have said the U.K.