M3 Travellers - Longcross

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Ranger 6

7,053 posts

250 months

Wednesday 31st January 2018
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Vixpy1 said:
Developers buy site

can't get planning

open it as a studio in meantime to get a return on investment

get planning for some houses

when planning for rest of site comes through, studio will close
I was talking to one of the sales people the other day - it appears the studio is so successful that they're looking at re-developing the old buildings into proper sound stages instead of building offices.

The housing plan for the test track is still in place.

anonymous-user

55 months

Wednesday 31st January 2018
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Well the cranes have come down and the mystery building appears to be complete.
Pretty sure it's film related. It looks a little odd to be anything else, with the dome and what looks like some kind of lighthouse feature, plus it seems to have weathered incredibly quickly.....artificially quickly?

FredAstaire

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2,336 posts

213 months

Thursday 1st February 2018
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Crossflow Kid said:
Well the cranes have come down and the mystery building appears to be complete.
Pretty sure it's film related. It looks a little odd to be anything else, with the dome and what looks like some kind of lighthouse feature, plus it seems to have weathered incredibly quickly.....artificially quickly?
i don't know - i can only sneek glimpses of it when i'm driving.

is it new or was it always there and the trees have cleared a bit?

anonymous-user

55 months

Saturday 17th March 2018
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It's a new-build on a steel framework structure that went up really fast with seemingly very little interior structure (although I appreciate that could be added later).
It's been there a while now with no obvious further activity, although a load more cranes have sprung up to the South.
It's either a development of some sort and is there to stay or it's part of a very big, very lengthy production.
Looking at things like Band of Brothers as an example, building an adaptable outdoor set that stands for anything up to a year isn't out of the question.

SVTRick

3,633 posts

196 months

Sunday 18th March 2018
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A few large cranes rigged up there a while back with massive Wendy Lights rigged up.
Film set for sure.
It will be gone as soon as it appeared

Rick K

67 posts

220 months

Sunday 5th April 2020
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Fowl Manor from the upcoming Artemis Fowl film in case anyone was still interested

anonymous-user

55 months

Sunday 5th April 2020
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Rick K said:
Fowl Manor from the upcoming Artemis Fowl film in case anyone was still interested
Yep, I spotted that too the other day.
Also noticed the structure seems to have now gone from Longcross.

Edited by anonymous-user on Monday 6th April 09:05

Trevatanus

11,125 posts

151 months