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Hackney Central has been transformed over A crop of innovative new restaurants have also the last few years through £1 billion Olympic opened their doors recently with Lardo, Rita’s, infrastructure investment in the Franco Manca ,The Advisory, Raw Duck, Tonkotsu Overground, now one of the UK’s busiest lines. and Bouchon Fourchette joining Mare Street and Further upgrades will bring even Field’s more established Turkish connectivity to the area including a new bridge and Vietnamese eateries such as Anatolia and between Hackney Central and Green Papaya. stations and expansions to the ticket halls, A major development is the inward investment services and capacity. of over £150 million to develop a world-leading With 40% business growth since 2004 compared fashion design, manufacturing and retail hub in the to 22% in the rest of London and the 3rd highest north-east of the town centre, creating hundreds self employment rate in , Hackney as of new jobs and due to attract around 3.5 million a whole is one of the most entrepreneurial places visitors to the borough per year. in the country. Hackney Central’s numerous Hackney Central has benefited from £2 million of co-working and studio spaces including The investment from the GLA’s Mayor’s Regeneration Trampery, Space Studios, Eat Work Art’s Hackney Fund. This has been used to improve the shop Downs Studios and Netil House cater for the fronts of 30 shops in and around the pedestrianised growing creative start-up economy. Narroway in the town centre. Local parks and As well as the borough’s administrative heart with walkways also saw investment in a new public Hackney’s beautifully restored art deco Town Hall realm to guide and charm the influx of new visitors. and Council chambers, Hackney Central is also a To get involved, please follow us on twitter cultural destination. The broad offer ranges from @hackneybusiness or visit: Sutton House museum to Grade II listed Hackney www.investinhackney.org where you can browse Empire theatre, the newly renovated Hackney content such as video case studies with some Picturehouse cinema, contemporary music venue of our local businesses, sign up to the Hackney Oslo, and St John at Hackney church which Business Network newsletter and find contact hosts concerts from Elbow to Nigel Kennedy. The details for the regeneration delivery team. bustling canal-side , park and lido round out the entertainment offer.

Jules Pipe, FOREWORD Mayor of Hackney At we have the world on the doorstep and the world on our stage. It’s a privilege to be a part of such a dynamic and diverse community.” Clarie Middleton, Hackney Empire

3 LONDON’S NEWEST FASHION DISTRICT Over £150 million of inward investment has been secured Early companies to arrive alongside the historic for a major regeneration project in Hackney Central. The Burberry outlet store include designers Aquascutum, development includes fashion outlet stores, affordable Pringle, Bally, Joseph and Anya Hindmarch. A diverse workspace and manufacturing workshops for local designers mix of brands is being curated; including the best creating a new focal point for UK fashion in the heart of of British heritage brands, street and sportswear London’s East End. alongside cutting edge UK fashion houses. Built on a rich history of fashion manufacturing from the migrated Huguenot silk makers once based in Sutton House to the fierce bustle of ’s rag trade, Hackney is gearing up to be at the centre of the next manufacturing revival. The development led by Works comprises over 6,250 square metres of new retail space designed by award winning architect David Adjaye OBE as well as subsidised design studios for up-and-coming local designers. With funding from railway authority a series of archways will also house a number of designer and high street brands.

4 CFE and Photographer: Yuvali Theis.

THE HACKNEY SHOP The Hackney Shop was created to give up and coming local fashion brands the opportunity to create their own pop-up shop within the Fashion Hub development. The ongoing project is a collaboration between Hackney Council and the Fashion Hub with the purpose of giving new businesses hands-on experience in marketing and retail. The Hackney shop has hosted many young brands such as Kelly Shaw and Beth Postle and some more established such as Henry Holland and Jonathan Saunders. 5 Promising to create over 450 jobs in retail alone, the development will also be home to Hackney’s first Stitching Academy a social enterprise that trains staff to become skilled garment makers, allowing designers to bring manufacture back to UK soil for closer, fairer supply chains that benefit the local community. Hackney is already home to the majority of the UK’s top fashion designers and with world respected institutions such as the London College of Fashion and the Centre for Fashion Enterprise based locally, the borough is awash with young talent looking to follow in their footsteps. Finally the ambition is to inspire a generation through numerous community outreach activities in schools including major cultural events like the ’s street fashion inspired summer market installation providing local work placements and a flourish of day and night time experiences for visitors and residents alike.

CFE and Photographer: Yuvali Theis.

6 Hackney Central is a thriving town centre and the Hackney Fashion Hub will play a major role in helping to meet the Council’s ambition to create London’s major fashion district. Already great East London designers and fashion brands are moving to the hub. Over the next 5 years we will develop over half a million sq ft of new outlet stores and commercial space for the industry.” Andrew Sissons, Fashion Hub

7 A PLACE TO LIVE AND WORK Hackney Central is the administrative heart of the Borough Hackney Central is also a hub for culture, with the with the iconic art deco Town Hall and Council chambers and bringing the Borough’s history a majestic town square with landscaped flower beds and palm to the fore and the ’s Sutton House trees in homage to the hitherto Loddiges exotic plant nursery. providing a trip into the Victorian past. The centrepiece cinema, Hackney Picturehouse, shows a large It is the second largest economic centre in the borough, with selection of blockbuster and independent films as well 2,000 businesses, just under 9,000 employees and leading as a packed programme of talks, previews and music sectors such as fashion, health, social care and education, retail events in the various venue spaces. The Hackney and real estate as primary employers. Empire Grade II listed theatre is a family friendly Home to 12,381 residents, Hackney Central is a rapidly changing venue hosting popular shows that draw residents area with a rise in new households with high weekly expenditure of all ages and visitors alike, notably for the world and preference for quality goods. famous winter pantomime. Music venues Oslo and A growing number of developments are providing quality work St John At Hackney church attract discerning music and studio space to entrepreneurs, remote workers and small listeners to see artists from across the globe. businesses often offering a host of other amenities from yoga On the weekend, Borough Market and the outdoor studios to fresh food markets. Well known spaces include The spaces such as London Fields and the Lido are Trampery, Space Studios, Eat Work Art’s Hackney Downs Studios buzzing with activity, especially in summer when the and Netil House. crowds gather to picnic and BBQ. From Regent’s Canal to the Narrowway, Mare Street has a bountiful offer of food establishments, from numerous Vietnamese and Turkish restaurants such as Green Papaya and Anatolia to newer offerings such as The Advisory, Rita’s, Lardo, Raw Duck and Tonkontsu.

8 People gravitate towards Hackney as the creative heart of London and its reputation is growing and growing. It is an ideal place to meet, create and collaborate, explore and connect with a hive of independent businesses, drink amazing coffee, browse the best markets and of course, people watch the swarms of people on bikes.” Eat Work Art

9 POPULAR PLACES NARROWAY LONDON FIELDS BROADWAY MARKET Narroway is Hackney Central’s London Fields is a popular Broadway Market is located recently pedestrianised high street bbq friendly park where sports at the southern end of London in the centre of the historical activities and picnic makers Fields and draws visitors conservation area, featuring co-exist. Nestled in the corner throughout the week to enjoy the Hackney’s oldest building, is the London Fields lido, the street’s boutique clothes, design St Augustine’s Tower. Benefiting capital’s only 50-metre outdoor and food shops as well as the from a recent uplift investment heated swimming pool, many restaurants and bars. The of £500,000 from the Mayor of attracting approximately 185,000 renowned street market takes London’s Regeneration Fund the visitors each year. Alongside the place every Saturday when the narrow shopping street offers a park is a row of railway arches crowds gather for the artisan number of recognised high street where passersby can find a produce, street entertainment brands and independent family number of independent cafes, and jovial ambience. run businesses. A programme wellbeing centres and the of cultural events and continuing London Fields brewery. public realm improvements facilitates its use as a community hub. The Council is strongly promoting the broadening of the retail offer on the Narroway encouraging the growth of new cafes, restaurants and independent shops to complement the existing retail offer. At present a number of shops are available to lease at a range of sizes and use classes.

10 HACKNEY DOWNS WILTON WAY Hackney Downs is an area on the rise, with Wilton Way is another well loved local popular pubs and restaurants; it is also street with an emerging restaurant and the location for Hackney Downs Studios independent retail offer with specialty home to over 100 creative businesses from shops such as Borough Wines, a boutique record labels to florists, jewellery designers barber, Toppers of Hackney and the to bookbinders, filmmakers to architects, specialist cupcake bakery, Violet’s. vintage bicycles and a bespoke brewery.

11 OPPORTUNITY OPPORTUNITY SITES SITES HACKNEY CENTRAL Site name A6 Railway arches, Bohemia Place A7 2-20 Morning Lane and Hackney Trades Hall

B1 7-19 Amhurst Road and Council owned Station car park B2 Hackney Central Station Ticket Hall

C1 The Rectory, 356 Mare Street, Land rear of 392-396 Mare Street and Learning Trust site

D1 1-17 Lower Clapton Road, Clarence House and 2-12a Clarence Road D2 302-304 Mare Street

E1 Florfield Road depot, Maurice Bishop House and 13 Reading Lane

F1 7a Sylvester Road and ’the washouse’, 117 Wilton Way F2 1-10 Great Eastern buildings and land to the rear of 29-39 Horton Road (LBH ownership only)

12 To help fulfil its potential and improve the look and feel of the street, the Council is working to create a more attractive, accessible, social and functional public space which will bring long-lasting benefits for residential and businesses.

Artists impression of the proposed Narroway uplift.

13 London - Stanstead - - Peterborough Growth Area

Thames Gateway Haringey Motorways

Walthamstow To Stansted Airport Waltham Central Manor House Airports Forest Park Leytonstone Container and freight ports To Cambridge and Clapton Stansted Airport

BARKING Rectory Road TRANSPORT Hackney Central is incredibly well served with Stansted Airport is just over 30 miles from Hackney Hackney Downs Hackney Park Dalston public transport and will continue to transform Central, via connections from Hackney Downs Kingsland with many improvements planned over the next into Stansted Express trains from Liverpool Street three years. Hackney Central has benefited from and Hale, and also via the Eastway and Hackney Central a £1billion investment to the , M11. The airport is also becoming an increasingly Dalston with a high quality and frequent service links important freight hub for exporters and importers Junction Hackney Hackney Hackney Central to large parts of the rest of providing a global freight link around the world. & Central London and Underground connections at Highbury Queen Elizabeth Stratford Hackney Central is well served by 17 bus routes, London & Islington and Stratford stations. Fields Hackney Olympic Park with six of London’s 10 most popular routes Islington Wick A new interchange between Hackney Downs and starting, ending and moving through the area, Hackney Central stations sees an enclosed and totalling more than 80 million journeys per year. accessible passenger walkway directly linking Last but not least, more people cycle to work in West the two. Ham Hackney than in almost anywhere else in Britain, Mile Bow London Overground’s trains with an increasing number of Boris bike stations End Church through Hackney Central have also been lengthened and a set of key cycle routes linking residential Camden Bethnal Green Newham to give a 25% capacity increase. areas around Lower Clapton, Park and All station names on Shoreditch London Fields with routes to the City and beyond. have submitted a proposal to High Street Extend H&C Line, District the Department for Transport for the installation of lifts in the entrance to Hackney Downs station, Tower City of Liverpool Street Piccadilly Line in Key which would be in the fully refurbished original Hamlets London Canning Town London ticket hall. Completion will be in 2016/17. Hackney Bank City Airport Downs will also join the London Overground network, with new trains servicing on the route Shadwell City of Tower from mid 2017. WATERLOO BRIDGE Hill Tower Gateway Charing LONDON OVERGROUND DISTRICT LINE PICCADDILLY LINE 2012 OLYMPIC Cross King AND PARALYMPIC North George V LONDON BRIDGE GAMES SITES

TOWER BRIDGE EAST LONDON LINE (OPENING 2010) DOCKLANDS LIGHT RAILWAY VICTORIA LINE BRIDGE SOUTHWARK

BLACKFRIARS BRIDGE CROSSRAIL 1 & CITY LINE NORTHERN LINE

WESTMINSTER BRIDGE 14 London Crosharbour CENTRAL LINE JUBILEE LINE MAINLINE SERVICES Bridge

Southwark Charlton ARSENAL

ABBEY WOOD Greenwich

Lambeth

Blackheath Lewisham London - Stanstead - Cambridge - Peterborough Growth Area

Thames Gateway Haringey Motorways

Walthamstow To Stansted Airport Waltham Central Manor House Airports Forest Stamford Hill Leytonstone Container and freight ports To Cambridge and Stoke Newington Clapton Stansted Airport

BARKING Rectory Road Leyton Dalston KEY Hackney Downs Hackney Dalston Canonbury Kingsland Creative hub

Hackney Homerton Central Dalston Highbury Junction Hackney Hackney 2012 Olympic and Paralympic & Islington Central Wick Park and venues Queen Elizabeth Stratford London Olympic Park Islington Fields Hackney London Overground Haggerston Wick Crossrail 1 Central Line

West District Line Hoxton Ham Bethnal Green Docklands Light Railway Mile Bow End Church Hammersmith & City Line Camden Shoreditch Bethnal Green Newham Jubilee Line All station names on East London Line Shoreditch Piccadilly Line High Street Victoria Line Extend H&C Line, District Tower Northern Line City of Liverpool Street Piccadilly Line in Key Hamlets Mainline Sevices London Canning Town London Bank City Airport International airport Shadwell City of Tower Westminster WATERLOO BRIDGE Hill Tower Gateway Canary Wharf Charing LONDON OVERGROUND DISTRICT LINE PICCADDILLY LINE 2012 OLYMPIC Cross King AND PARALYMPIC North George V LONDON BRIDGE GAMES SITES

TOWER BRIDGE Greenwich EAST LONDON LINE (OPENING 2010) DOCKLANDS LIGHT RAILWAY VICTORIA LINE SOUTHWARK BRIDGE SOUTHWARK

BLACKFRIARS BRIDGE CROSSRAIL 1 HAMMERSMITH & CITY LINE NORTHERN LINE

WESTMINSTER BRIDGE London Crosharbour CENTRAL LINE JUBILEE LINE MAINLINE SERVICES Bridge

Southwark Charlton WOOLWICH ARSENAL

ABBEY WOOD Greenwich

Lambeth Lewisham

Blackheath Lewisham CONTACTS For more information, please contact: Regeneration Delivery on 020 8356 7746 www.investinhackney.org @hackneybusiness

Produced by Hackney Design, Communications & Print • September 2015 • PJ59078