Stanhope and BBC unveil 1,000-home Television Centre masterplan

The masterplan for the 14-acre site will see the BBC remain at the Centre and occupy office and studio space. The plans also include 1,000 new homes, including a 'village green' of town houses, as well as offices, shops, restaurants and cafes, a health club and a cinema. The listed buildings at the Television Centre will be retained.

Stanhope bought the site in July last year and the BBC is leasing back the site to Stanhope until 2015. The BBC will remain in refurbished accommodation at the Centre after 2015 on long occupational leases and will vacate the remainder of the site.

"Stanhope is working in partnership with the BBC to deliver a publicly accessible mixed use remodelling of these iconic buildings and redevelopment of the adjoining land," said Stanhope chief executive David Camp. "The BBC will continue to have a significant presence at Television Centre and we will be bringing new life into the site with new public routes, spaces and uses."

"We will be introducing a vibrant and exciting mix of new retail, leisure, office and residential uses whilst keeping and enhancing the famous original BBC buildings and retaining key operational BBC studio and office facilities on site. Television Centre will be a great place to live, work and visit," Camp said.

Stanhope and the BBC are holding a number of public exhibitions of the plans this week. They plan to submit a series of detailed and outline planning applications to the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham during the first half of this year and to start building work in 2015.