Liverpool’s £54 million Littlewoods Film Studios complex has received a £17 million funding commitment from the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority’s Strategic Investment Fund. Some of the money will be used to erect temporary buildings on adjacent land which can be used while the complex is built, These pop-up spaces should become available to use by the end of 2020.
Twickenham Studios are due to be anchor tenants at the complex, which will have 300,000 square feet of space in total, including a 150-seat screening room
“Littlewoods Studios is a hugely exciting regeneration project and this funding will ensure we can deliver the studios for the people of Liverpool. With streaming services like Netflix booming during lockdown, there’s going to be more demand than ever for studio space.
While Liverpool has a blossoming digital and film industry we want to capitalise on filming opportunities and the economic benefits they bring. Littlewoods Studios is going to change all that, providing Hollywood-standard facilities that will complete our world class offer. Now, more than ever, we need to be looking to the future and focusing on major regeneration projects that will deliver highly-skilled jobs and investment for the long term.”.
Joe Anderson, mayor of Liverpoo
Source: TVB Europe