The 拢110m development includes 聽six sound stages totalling 140,000 sq ft along with all the facilities required for filming a Hollywood-style blockbuster.
The plans were submitted by Be First, the Barking & Dagenham Council鈥檚 own regeneration organisation.
What happens yet has yet to be decided but the council said that the decision gave 鈥榤omentum鈥� to discussions that Be First is having with potential interested parties to determine whether to: secure a joint venture agreement; sell the land with planning permission; or for Be First to build the studios and lease the site to an interested party.
Be First managing director Pat Hayes said: 鈥淲e鈥檝e had a great deal of interest in the site and with planning permission secured the interest will intensify.聽 With the ever growing demand for studio space in the UK, we鈥檙e in a very good position to take this project forward.鈥�
Council leader Darren Rodwell said: 鈥淭his is a huge decision for the borough. It gives the green light to what will be London鈥檚 largest film studios, so it鈥檚 a major milestone in the renewal of a part of London badly hit by de-industrialisation and austerity.鈥�
Lisa Dee, head of Barking & Dagenham鈥檚 film office, said: 鈥淏arking & Dagenham is already a magnet for movie makers. Two of the UK鈥檚 biggest features were filmed in Dagenham last year 鈥� Black Widow by Marvel and Morbius by Sony Pictures [yet to be released] 鈥� contributing to the 拢1.74bn total UK inward investment from feature films for last year.
鈥淎nd, as London is moving a lot of work east, we are finding more crew and production workers are living in east, south-east and north London areas, so we鈥檙e on their doorstep, which makes Dagenham studios a great geographical fit for the existing and the next generation of crew and creatives.鈥�
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