Web design for businesses around Mudchute, Island Gardens and the foot tunnel

People come to Cubitt Town for a farm and a tunnel. Nobody comes here to browse a shopping street, because there isn't one.

A Cubitt Town website built to be found before the visit, not during a walk past a shop window, for £49.99 a month.

  • Website: £49.99/month
  • Website design fee: £0 upfront
  • Minimum term, then it is yours: 18 months

Illustration: Cubitt Town marked on a map of Greater London, beside a listing card for a local business whose website PrimeStart looks after.

Cubitt Town

A Victorian company town in E14, whose two best-known features are a farm and a tunnel.

Cubitt Town was developed by William Cubitt, Lord Mayor of London from 1860 to 1862, in the 1840s and 1850s to house dock workers, shipbuilders and factory employees on the eastern side of the peninsula. Christ Church, Cubitt Town, built between 1852 and 1854, is Grade II* listed, and Cubitt Town Library, Carnegie-funded and completed in 1905 at a cost of £6,805 13s 10d, was extended in 1962. The shipbuilding yards that once worked this stretch - Westwood Baillie, Samuda Brothers, J & W Dudgeon and Yarrow Shipbuilders - along with the cement, pottery, brick and asphalt works, have all closed.

Mudchute Park and Farm covers thirteen hectares, made from spoil pumped out during the 1860s construction of Millwall Dock next door and saved from housing development in the 1970s by the Association of Island Communities, with the farm and garden officially established in 1977. Island Gardens, at the peninsula's southern tip, opened on 3 August 1895, and the Greenwich foot tunnel, begun in June 1899 and opened on 4 August 1902, runs 370.2 metres and 15.2 metres deep beneath the Thames from an entrance close by. Crossharbour DLR station, named after the nearby Glengall Bridge, has served the area since 1987.

There is no continuous parade of shops here to carry passing trade - what pulls people onto this ground is a farm, a riverside garden and a tunnel, each for one specific reason, which means the trades and home-based businesses working the Victorian housing stock have to be found by a search rather than a walk past a window.

Where our Cubitt Town customers trade
  • around Mudchute Park and Farm
  • near Island Gardens
  • close to the Greenwich foot tunnel entrance
  • around Christ Church, Cubitt Town
  • near Crossharbour DLR station

If you're working from home or trading on the Victorian housing stock rather than a shop, the site says exactly where in E14, because there's no parade for a passer-by to browse.

Two ways to start, where there's no shop window to help you.

A professional website, or that website with ongoing SEO from the start. Both matter more here than most places, because a farm and a tunnel bring the footfall, not a parade.

Website
£49.99per month

£0 upfront website design fee

For trades and home-based businesses working the Victorian housing stock around Mudchute and Island Gardens, who need to be found before the visit rather than during it.

  • Professional managed WordPress website, generally up to 5 pages
  • Built around your services, the areas you cover and how customers contact you
  • Domain name, hosting, SSL, backups and updates handled for you
  • Reasonable small changes, subject to fair use
  • 18-month minimum, then the website is yours
Website + SEO
Website included
£349.99per month total

Website included. The £49.99 is not added on top.

For businesses competing for the same E14 searches around Mudchute and the foot tunnel, where both being found and being chosen before the visit matter.

  • Everything in Website
  • 3 agreed priority Google searches for your area
  • Monthly optimisation and Google Business Profile work
  • Clear monthly reporting on what was done
  • 6-month SEO minimum; every month of it counts towards the Website term

The price is the same in Cubitt Town as it is anywhere else in the UK. Not sure which fits? Talk to someone first or see the full pricing details.

Eighteen months, then the website is yours.

Mudchute has been public open space since 1977 and the foot tunnel has run beneath the Thames since 1902 - Cubitt Town's two best-known features have both lasted well over the length of this term. Complete the minimum term here and the website belongs to you, whether you stay with PrimeStart or not.

  1. Month 1 We design and build it

    Your first £49.99 is taken at signup. We build the website around your business and you approve it before anything is published.

  2. Months 1 to 18 We host, manage and support it

    Hosting, security, backups, updates and reasonable small changes, while you make the monthly payments. 18 payments of £49.99, £899.82 in total.

  3. After month 18 The website is yours

    Complete the minimum term and the payments due under it, and the website belongs to you. It was built for your business, and it stays with your business.

  4. Your choice Stay, or move it

    Stay with PrimeStart at £49.99 a month on a rolling basis with no new minimum term, or move the website to hosting of your own.

Moving the website elsewhere is subject to the third-party licences any website relies on, such as WordPress, plugins, fonts and stock photography. The full wording lives in the Website Subscription Terms.

People search for Mudchute and the foot tunnel first, and your business second.

"Builder cubitt town", "gardener near me", "tutor e14": people here search having already decided to visit Mudchute or the tunnel, not while browsing a high street. Ongoing SEO is monthly work on three agreed searches like these.

Illustration of a local search results page for “builder cubitt town”: a map with pins and a short list of businesses, one of them labelled “your business”. The businesses and ratings are examples; no position is implied.

An illustration of the kind of local results SEO works towards. The businesses, ratings and positions shown are examples, not a ranking or a result for any particular business.

  1. 01
    “builder Cubitt Town

    Typed by someone with Victorian housing stock to maintain, who wants a trade that knows the area rather than one who has to be told where Mudchute is.

  2. 02
    “gardener near me

    A near-me search from someone living close to Island Gardens or Mudchute, where there is no shopfront to walk past and ask instead.

  3. 03
    “tutor E14

    Searched by a parent booking ahead rather than passing a sign, because E14 has homes and a farm to visit here, not a parade to browse.

Examples only. The three searches are agreed with you around the work you want more of and what people here actually type. Nobody can promise a position, and we don't.

Cubitt Town industries

No parade to browse here - a farm, a garden and a tunnel bring people, and a search brings them to you.

A decorator working the Victorian terraces and a tutor booked from home both need to be found before someone sets off for Mudchute or the foot tunnel, not during the walk.

See every industry we build for

How it works

Your part is short.

Choose a plan, tell us about the business, review the draft. We do everything in between, and nothing is published until you approve it.

See the full process, start to finish

  1. 1

    Choose your plan

    Pick Website or Website + SEO. Your first monthly payment is taken at signup.

  2. 2

    Tell us about the business

    A short onboarding in your Client Platform: services, areas, anything you want highlighted, your logo, any photos and the number you want calls to go to.

  3. 3

    Ready to Build

    We check we have what we need. If something's missing we'll say exactly what, and work with what you have where we can.

  4. 4

    First draft

    You see a working draft of your site, on desktop and phone, and tell us what to change.

  5. 5

    Approve and launch

    Reasonable in-scope revisions, then you approve it. Nothing goes live until you say so.

Timing, stated properly

We aim to have your first website draft ready within 5 working days once PrimeStart has everything needed and confirms your project is Ready to Build. Payment alone doesn’t start the clock; missing details, revisions or domain delays can extend it.

Before you approve

You review the draft and request reasonable in-scope changes. If there’s a genuine problem we can’t put right within scope after reasonable attempts, we can cancel the agreement and refund Website subscription payments made, subject to any disclosed non-recoverable third-party costs.

Questions

Questions from Cubitt Town businesses

Do you build websites for businesses in Cubitt Town?
Yes - around Mudchute Park and Farm, Island Gardens, the Greenwich foot tunnel and the Victorian streets between them. Everything is designed, built and managed remotely, so there is no office to visit.
There's no shop for us to be found from. Does a website still help?
More than it would on a busy parade. Cubitt Town has no continuous shopping street, so trades and home-based businesses here are found by a search or a recommendation, not by someone walking past. That makes the website the shopfront.
We already have a website we like. Can you just do the SEO?
No. SEO is not sold on its own any more — it is only available as part of Website + SEO, £349.99 a month in total, and that means building you a new PrimeStart website rather than adding search work onto the one you have now. A business near Cubitt Town would be starting from the same place as everyone else here: a new site built around the trade, with the SEO work running from day one rather than retrofitted onto what already exists. Nobody can promise rankings, and we don't.
What does a Cubitt Town business website cost?
Website is £49.99 a month with a £0 upfront design fee, and it costs the same here as anywhere else. The first £49.99 is taken at signup, and there is an 18-month minimum term, £899.82 in total. Once that term is complete, the website is yours.
How does ongoing SEO work?
Website + SEO is £349.99 a month total, with the website included rather than charged on top. Each month we work on three agreed local searches, for example "builder cubitt town" or "gardener near me", alongside your Google Business Profile and the website itself. Nobody can promise rankings, and we don't.
Is this the same as your Millwall or Isle of Dogs page?
No. This page is for Cubitt Town's own ground - Mudchute, Island Gardens and the foot tunnel. Millwall covers the ground to the west; Isle of Dogs is the peninsula name covering Cubitt Town, Millwall and Canary Wharf together. If you trade in one of those instead, start there.
Is there a PrimeStart office in Cubitt Town?
No. We have no premises in Cubitt Town or anywhere in Tower Hamlets. Design, build, hosting and support are all handled remotely.

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Nearby

Also working with businesses across the rest of the peninsula and Tower Hamlets.

The same plans, the same price and the same standard of website across Cubitt Town, the rest of the peninsula and Tower Hamlets.

Somewhere else? PrimeStart works with businesses across the whole of the UK. Find your area or get in touch.

Ready for a Cubitt Town website that gets found before the visit?

A professional website for £49.99 a month, designed, built and looked after by PrimeStart, built to be found by a search rather than a walk past a shop window, with ongoing SEO ready whenever you want more of the right Cubitt Town searches to find you.

18-month Website minimum, £899.82 in total. First monthly payment at signup. Complete the term and the website is yours.

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