Location of the Month May 09: RAF West Drayton

One-stop set shop, self-contained location village; call it what you want - RAF West Drayton is our latest megasite, a 32 acre behemoth offering a staggering range of rich, versatile, off-the-shelf filming backdrops and a full complement of set-build, storage and office areas fit to service productions of all sizes.

Situated east of Iver inside the M25, half an hour's drive from central London, RAF West Drayton is a former military air traffic monitoring centre, and there's a strong Cold War feel to many areas, thanks to some of the military facility features:

• East Berlin checkpoint barrier and guardhouse
• stark concrete-panelled exteriors
• striking nuclear bunker rooms
• superbly atmospheric 1950s period control room

Sprawling plant rooms, elephantine turbine generators, miles of sleek aluminium air ducts snaking overhead, wheel valves, emergency lighting and klaxon horns - these industrial areas are spectacular backdrops suitable for a wide range of genres, lending themselves most obviously to feature and TV thrillers.

In addition to these atmospheric genre features, RAF West Drayton offers 32,500sqft of triple height set-build space and a multitude of readymade "doubles" backdrops, including:

• police station interiors
• hospital corridors and wards
• school workshops and labs

The site also contains a wide range of office spaces, corridors, canteens, kitchens and much, much more, all in an excellent condition and immediately available for filming.

This substantial site offers so many production amenities and such a variety of locations within one self-contained site, all within the M25 and striking distance of west and central London.  We're delighted to have secured exclusive representation and to have made it available to the market.

To visit the site for familiarisation purposes, or to arrange a recce:

Janie on 0207 284 8901 / janie@location-collective.co.uk

Lottie on 0207 284 8903 / lottie@location-collective.co.uk.