Appalling waste of money to have built this in the first place. Everybody hated it.

Here's the latest on what's happening in the W12 area (courtesy of TVBE!)

"The BBC has sold its sprawling Media Village complex in Shepherds Bush as part of its major cost-cutting drive. This latest retreat from west London paves the way for a huge overhaul of the 17-acre White City site where the 1908 Olympic stadium once stood.

The Corporation is being paid £87 million by the purchasers, British developers Stanhope and Japanese property giant Mitsui Fudosan, but will continue to lease three of the six blocks at Media Village, which is being renamed White City Place. Media Village was completed in 2004 and at its peak 6,000 staff worked in its buildings. Programmes made there included The One Show until it moved to New Broadcasting House in the West End. The BBC said the deal would reduce its annual running costs by £33 million, bringing the total saving to £75 million a year.
This all comes a year after the broadcaster sold its famous BBC TV Centre - a few hundred yards along Wood Lane - for just £200 million, also to Stanhope and Mitsui. It is being turned into a new branch of members’ club Soho House, as well as a hotel, homes, restaurants, shops and offices.
The BBC’s estate has now been reduced from 213 buildings to 154.

Anne Bulford, the Corporation’s Managing Director of Finance and Operations, said: “The BBC is determined to work out of the minimum number of buildings possible whilst still representing the audience it serves. [It'll no doubt be a toilet somewhere!]
“We will now save £75 million a year from prudent property management meaning more of the licence fee will go on what matters most to our audience — the programmes they love.”
The new owners of Media Village plan to modernise the office space and let it “to a range of creative industries” from next year. Four acres of car parks and other “brownfield” land will be used for new offices. There will also be restaurants, shops and exercise studios.

The sale is being seen as “the last piece of the jigsaw” in the vast £8 billion regeneration of the White City area to the north of Shepherds Bush.
It comes just a fortnight after house-builder St James secured planning consent from Hammersmith & Fulham council for up to 1,465 homes — 30 per cent classified as “affordable” — on the site of a Marks & Spencer warehouse. [Affordable by who? - ]

At the north end of Wood Lane, Imperial College plan a £3 billion complex, while at the southern end Westfield is expanding.