Developer VERB and film studio operator Quartermaster have filed plans for a film and television studio campus near Stewartby in Bedfordshire, valued at £263m.
The Home of Production Studio scheme, designed by architect Scott Brownrigg, involves redeveloping a 143-acre site and former clay mineral quarry to provide more than 1.75m sq ft flexible studio space together with onsite accommodation, amenities and a re-wilded water body and canal.
The former quarry, known as Quest Pit, opened in 1983 and was the last active brick pit in Bedfordshire when it closed in 2008, leaving a series of redundant brownfield sites with access tracks and flooded extraction bowls. Parts of the site up to 12 metres below natural ground level.
