"Building BloQs will now have access to greater quantities of flexible and affordable open access workshop space to help support freelance designers, makers, and small businesses while Meridian Water grows. The expansion of the Building BloQs workshop will provide higher levels of employment than otherwise would have been realised. “By investing in the empty VOSA building, we are providing an opportunity for Meridian Water to benefit from the development of a skilled creative industries cluster which has the potential to be regionally significant for makers and creative communities. This new expanded workspace will give future creative industries in Enfield a huge boost and enable businesses to form: and grow.
The Leader of Enfield Council, Cllr Nesil Caliskan, said: “I’m delighted this project is moving forward rapidly and our partnership with Building BloQs is flourishing.
It aims to provide thousands of affordable homes and quality jobs in Enfield as well new schools, community and health services, nurseries, shops and youth and leisure facilities. Building BloQs is a key partner on Enfield Council’s Meridian Water development, which seeks to provide 10,000 homes and 6,000 jobs and to create 8.2 hectares of parkland in the Lea Valley over the coming 25 years.Įnfield Council has taken control of the vision and delivery of Meridian Water to ensure that local people are the principal beneficiaries. Planning permission for the scheme was granted last year. The jobs created will contribute to the target of providing 1,000 meanwhile jobs outlined in the Meridian Water Employment Strategy: Your Place to Make and Create. The Council has also agreed to fund the costs of the building refurbishment and construction project to shell & core, for which it will receive a market rent.
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The costs of the project are being met by way of grant funding from the GLA plus additional grant funding from the Council, both of which are being used to fund Building BloQs’ delivery of machinery, fit out and other capital project costs. The construction project will also safeguard 84 jobs and create an extra 204 over the lifetime of the construction which is expected to last until the spring of next year. Workers will also have access to more than £1 million worth of light industrial equipment and there will also be new skills training facilities, a waterside café, gardens, a shop and event space all of which will be easily accessible to Enfield residents. This new BLoQs workshop will support up to 1,000 makers and creators across a range of departments – engineering, wood, metal, digital and additive technology, paint finishing, and a fashion studio for many years to come. Enfield Council has appointed contractors to construct affordable workspace for hundreds of workers at its £6 billion Meridian Water development.ĪSHE will renovate and refurbish the old VOSA workshop ready for Building BloQs – a key partner of the Council’s – to provide more than 30,000 square feet of creative manufacturing workspace.
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