Scott Brownrigg-designed proposals for a new film and television studio campus on a brownfield site in Bedfordshire have been granted planning permission.

The practice’s “Home of Production” scheme will deliver 172,500sq m of indoor and outdoor studio space and production facilities, as well as cafes and restaurants for crew members, at Quest Pit near the village of Houghton Conquest. There will also be a waterside hospitality suite and childcare facilities.

The 57ha site centres on a now-flooded former quarry that was Bedfordshire’s last active brick pit. It is near the former site of the London Brick Company’s Stewartby Brickworks, subsequently bought by Hanson.

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