We are delighted to announce that our growing specialist joinery business, Central Joinery has been selected to build 11 stair cases for the new EastEnders set. We have started work and our first stair case will be going into Phil Mitchell’s house.
The corporation is building a new Albert Square near the existing set at the BBC's Elstree studios in Hertfordshire. It will have actual brick buildings - unlike the current one, which only uses facades. The external EastEnders set dates back to the soap's birth in 1984 and was only supposed to be used for two years, but has lasted for 34.
The soap cannot currently be filmed in high definition, and the BBC said the poor condition of the current set is increasingly causing delays to filming. The building project - titled E20 - was announced in 2015 and was meant to finish by August 2018 but EastEnders fans will have to wait a little while longer to see a new and improved Albert Square. A National Audit Office (NAO) report has revealed that plans to revamp and expand the BBC soap’s current set have been delayed until 2020.
The original 2015 forecast for the scheme was £59.7m, but the revised budget is now £86.7m, the National Audit Office (NAO) has revealed.