Cultural Infrastructure Map
Developed by City Hall, London’s first Cultural Infrastructure Map brings together new research and information that has previously not existed in one place. It plots the location of cultural infrastructure so you can view it alongside useful contextual data, like transport networks and population growth.
The scale of London's cultural infrastructure means that it is ever changing and evolving and some is difficult to locate. The map provides the best snapshot of information that we have gathered to date and it will continue to evolve, adding new categories and information as it becomes available and as Londoners and organisations add missing cultural infrastructure to it, or inform us about closures.
Help us map where culture is made in London
Take our survey to help map and understand our city’s spaces.
This survey is for anyone who uses or provides spaces where culture is made or produced, like creative studios, rehearsal rooms, recording spaces, film/TV studios. If culture is made there, we want to hear about it.
We want to hear from both individuals and organisations. We’re especially interested in understanding how these spaces are used, how they operate, and how things have changed over the past three years. If you manage more than one site, you’ll be able to provide details for each one.
By taking part, you'll help us:
- gain a better understanding of the strengths and challenges facing London's creative and cultural sectors that use an operate space.
- prioritise support for at-risk cultural infrastructure.
- develop effective policies to support the sector's growth.
The survey should take approximately 15 minutes to complete. You can pause and return to it within 15 days using the same browser and device.
The data will be held open source on the Cultural Infrastructure Map, the London Datastore and the High Streets Data Service portal. Your personal and organisation information will be kept secure and confidential in line with We Made That's Privacy Policy.
No individual responses will be published. Anonymised versions of the responses received will be published on the London Datastore, by clicking to submit, you consent to your response being published by the GLA.
Using the map
Using this tool, you can:
- view where cultural infrastructure is
- look at it alongside transport, planning, audience and demographic data
- download data for specific geographic areas by using the tools on the right hand side
- suggest missing cultural infrastructure by using the tools on the right hand side
- edit existing cultural infrastructure by clicking on a map entry
- understand travel times from existing infrastructure or a proposed development site by clicking on the tools on the right hand side
For the best browsing experience, we do not recommend viewing the map in Internet Explorer or on a mobile device.
When you view the data, here are some questions you can ask:
- do you have clusters of activity that you were previously unaware of?
- are there unexpected types of cultural infrastructure in your borough?
- could you build on this by adding key infrastructure to a cluster?
- are there types of infrastructure that you don’t have in your borough?
Take our survey to help us map where culture is made in London.
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