Mac Rating: 5.00 | Votes: 1 | Date: 20/06/2026 18:27:00

Seven floors of a former multi-storey car park on Rye Lane have been turned into Peckham Levels, a cultural and creative hub in the heart of south London. Opened in December 2017 and designed by Carl Turner Architects, the building reuses what had been an underused concrete car park beside Peckham Rye station to create studios, workspaces, food and drink outlets and event spaces from the middle levels up to the rooftop. The site's reinvention built on earlier creative use of the building, where the arts organisation Bold Tendencies had run a seasonal programme and the rooftop Frank's Cafe since the late 2000s, while a multiplex cinema occupied the front. Southwark Council, which owns the building, decided in 2015 to repurpose the empty middle floors, and the result is a roughly 94,000-square-foot campus. Across its levels the building offers around 90 studios and co-working spaces, shared workshops with facilities such as kiln rooms and printing presses, supported rents for social enterprises and offices for established businesses, alongside food kiosks, bars, a restaurant, a gallery and yoga studios. Communal floors are designed to mix visitors with the resident artists and makers. Its public events programme spans grassroots music, theatre, dance, comedy and visual arts, with a focus on work rooted in south London, and the venue offers discounts on tickets, food and drink to people who live, work or study locally. Free event space is provided to those who work in the building, reinforcing its community ethos. After the original operator entered administration in 2024, the site was taken over by the social enterprise The Trampery, working with Southwark Council to safeguard the workspace for more than a hundred local businesses. As the largest workspace complex of its kind in south London, Peckham Levels combines affordable studios, food and drink and a busy cultural calendar under one roof.