Web design for the studios and workshops of Hackney Wick

Say "Hackney Wick" and half the ground people picture is somewhere else. Your site has to be the thing that gets a customer to the right side of the water.

A Hackney Wick website built to be exact about the borough, for £49.99 a month.

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

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

Hackney Wick

A plastics and confectionery works that became a studio district, and a name that reaches into two other boroughs.

Parkesine, the world's first true synthetic plastic, was manufactured at Hackney Wick from 1866 to 1868. Clarnico's confectionery works arrived in 1879, alongside the oil distiller Carless, Capel & Leonard and the dyestuffs manufacturer Brooke, Simpson & Spiller. That same warehouse and workshop stock, clustered around Hackney Wick station and White Post Lane, now houses artist studios, small production businesses and the White Building, established as a centre for art, technology and sustainability. Hackney Wick station itself is served by London Overground on the Mildmay line, and the Lee Navigation runs along the district's eastern edge.

The same name is used well beyond where it actually applies. Fish Island, immediately south and routinely spoken of as part of Hackney Wick, is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets - a designated conservation area whose warehouses were converted to studios and lofts in the 1990s. Here East, on the site of the former Hackney Wick Stadium, is in the London Borough of Newham. A customer told to meet a business "in Hackney Wick" can be pointed at either without ever crossing into Hackney at all, and a listing that gets the borough wrong sends them the wrong way over a canal for nothing.

That makes precision the entire commercial argument here. A website that names the actual street - White Post Lane, the stretch around the station, the specific warehouse - and states which side of which bridge a studio is on does the job that the area's own name will not do. Real photographs of the workshop itself, a clear address, and the nearest station stated plainly matter more here than almost anywhere else in this batch, because the alternative is a customer who arrives confident and ends up somewhere else entirely.

Where our Hackney Wick customers work
  • Hackney Wick station
  • White Post Lane
  • the White Building
  • the warehouse and workshop stock around the station

If your studio or workshop is on White Post Lane or immediately around the station, the site says so specifically. It never claims Fish Island or Here East, which are in other boroughs.

Two ways to start in Hackney Wick.

A professional website, or that website with ongoing SEO from the start. Both start from the same problem: a name that points across two borough lines.

Website
£49.99per month

£0 upfront website design fee

For artist studios, workshops and small production businesses around Hackney Wick station and White Post Lane, who need a site that is exact about the borough so customers arrive on the right side of the water.

  • 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 studios and workshops competing for the same searches across a district whose own name is shared with two other boroughs, where being found and being exact both 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 Hackney Wick 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.

The warehouses here have carried working businesses since the 1860s. A website that only ever rents itself back to you monthly doesn't match that. Complete the minimum term here and it 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.

The search happens before anyone knows which borough they're heading to.

"Artist studio Hackney Wick", "workshop space White Post Lane", "creative studio near me": every one of these can return results from Hackney, Tower Hamlets or Newham without the searcher realising it. Ongoing SEO is monthly work on three agreed searches like these.

Illustration of a local search results page for “artist studio hackney wick”: 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
    “artist studio Hackney Wick

    Typed by someone who may be picturing Fish Island or Here East as much as Hackney Wick itself, and needs your actual street named before they set out.

  2. 02
    “workshop space White Post Lane

    Searched by a maker or small production business who wants a specific warehouse and a walking route from the station, not a general description of the area.

  3. 03
    “creative studio Hackney Wick station

    Made by a visitor arriving by Overground who needs to know which direction to walk and whether that means crossing into another borough.

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.

Hackney Wick industries

The buildings decide the trade. Precision about the borough decides whether the customer arrives.

A photographer's studio and a joiner's workshop in the same warehouse stock around White Post Lane both depend on the same thing: a website that names the actual street, not a name that also points at Tower Hamlets or Newham.

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 Hackney Wick businesses

Do you work with businesses in Hackney Wick?
Yes, for the artist studios, workshops and small production businesses around Hackney Wick station and White Post Lane, in the London Borough of Hackney. Everything is designed, built and managed remotely, so there is no office to visit.
Isn't Fish Island part of Hackney Wick?
It's routinely spoken of that way, but Fish Island is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, not Hackney. We build sites for businesses in Hackney Wick itself and are exact about the borough, so your customers are never sent to the wrong council area.
What about Here East?
Here East, on the site of the former Hackney Wick Stadium, is in the London Borough of Newham. It's a name people attach to Hackney Wick, but it isn't part of it, and we don't claim it on a Hackney Wick page.
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 around White Post Lane or the station 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 Hackney Wick business website cost?
Website is £49.99 a month with a £0 upfront design fee, and it costs the same here as anywhere else in the UK. 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 "artist studio Hackney Wick" or "workshop space White Post Lane", alongside your Google Business Profile and the website itself. Nobody can promise rankings, and we don't.
Is this the same as the Hackney Marshes page?
No. Hackney Marshes' page is for the coaches, groundskeepers and caterers working the pitches on the common land next door. This page is written only for the studios and workshops around Hackney Wick station and White Post Lane.

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Nearby

Also working with businesses across the rest of Hackney.

The same plans, the same price and the same standard of website across Hackney Wick, Homerton, Hackney Marshes and Lea Bridge.

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

Ready for a Hackney Wick website that gets the borough right?

A professional website for £49.99 a month, designed, built and looked after by PrimeStart, for the studios and workshops around Hackney Wick station and White Post Lane, with ongoing SEO ready whenever you want more of the right searches finding 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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