\n\tThe sale of Sherlock and The Outlaws studio Bottle Yard in Bristol has collapsed. <\/p>\n
\n\tBottle Yard is the only film and TV studio in the UK owned and managed by a local authority but the council decided last year it had \u201chit a glass ceiling\u201d <\/a>and should be sold.<\/p>\n \n\tToday, Bristol City Council said it had found a preferred bidder and entered a three-month period of exclusivity but \u201cit has not been possible to conclude an agreement for the sale of the leasehold of the studios.\u201d The identity of the preferred bidder was not revealed.<\/p>\n \n\tBristol Councillor Tony Dyer, who is overseeing the process, said the sale returns to the drawing board but the council will continue looking for buyers.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWe entered into this process with the objective of securing a sustainable future for the studios and the opportunity to grow into its huge potential,\u201d he said. \u201cThose aims remain the same as does our determination to ensure that one of our city\u2019s most successful regeneration projects continues an upward trajectory to deliver more jobs and more investment for Bristol.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tBottle Yard is a major Bristol TV and film industry jobs generator that has welcomed the likes of Sherlock, The Outlaws and A Good Girl\u2019s Guide to Murder down the years.<\/p>\n \n\tActors union Equity, which opposes what it terms the \u201crushed sale\u201d of Bottle Yard, celebrated the news. <\/p>\n \n\t\u201cHaving had regular and meaningful consultation with freelance creative workers and their union taken place, I believe this painful process could have been avoided,\u201d said Equity\u2019s South West Area Councillor Rachael Fagan. \u201cI encourage the Council to explore previously dismissed options for The Bottle Yard Studios<\/a>, which prioritise public ownership, ensuring value for money for Bristol residents.\u201d <\/p>\n \n\tEquity quoted data from the Bristol Film Office, which showed the economic impact of filming at Bristol locations and The Bottle Yard Studios rose 55% in 2024-25 to \u00a346.6M ($62.9M).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sale of Sherlock and The Outlaws studio Bottle Yard in Bristol has collapsed. Bottle Yard is the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[110640,381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-298599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bottle-yard-studios","9":"tag-bristol","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114931162477501520","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}