Web design at Marble Arch

Marble Arch is Oxford Street's west end, Edgware Road's hospitality strip and a 200-member Business Improvement District. A website here has to compete on a commercial street, not a residential one.

John Nash's marble arch was built in 1827 as Buckingham Palace's own state entrance, moved to its current corner of Hyde Park in 1851, and today gives its name to one of the busiest commercial junctions in London: Oxford Street's western end, Park Lane, Bayswater Road and Edgware Road's own strip of Middle Eastern restaurants, cafés and hotels. Around 200 member businesses now trade under the Marble Arch Business Improvement District. A business here competes for footfall on one of the country's busiest streets, and a website has to work as hard as the location does — for £79.99 a month with £0 upfront design fee — with search visibility available on top.

£79.99a month, £0 upfront
Custom builtnever a template
Fully managedhosting, changes, updates
Marble Arch monument at the busy Oxford Street junction, with buses and pedestrians
Marble Arch, W1Edgware Road's hospitality strip and Oxford Street's west end, a busy commercial junction.

Example enquiry — not a real customer

Oxford Street looking west towards Marble Arch, busy with pedestrians and shops

Example design — fictional business

Why a website

Hundreds of businesses share this junction. A search decides which one gets tried tonight.

Marble Arch brings genuine passing footfall from Oxford Street, Park Lane's hotels and Edgware Road itself, but a visitor deciding where to eat, stay or shop checks online first far more often than they simply walk in.

01

They want to know you're open and where exactly

Current hours and your exact spot on Edgware Road or near Oxford Street save a wasted walk on a junction this busy.

02

They want to see the menu, the room or the stock

Real photographs do more to bring the right customer in than a general claim to be "near Marble Arch".

03

They want to know you're established, not a passing tourist trap

A proper website says a Marble Arch business is a genuine, settled part of the district, not one of many interchangeable options.

04

They want to book or enquire before they arrive

A booking link or enquiry form that reaches your phone catches a visitor deciding in advance, not just walking past.

Marble Arch

A relocated royal entrance, a busy road junction, and a 200-member business district today.

Marble Arch's shape today comes from a monument that was literally moved to make way for something else, and a road junction that grew into one of central London's busiest commercial addresses around it.

Marble Arch's triumphal arch and iron gates at Cumberland Gate, where it was rebuilt in 1851
The arch is rebuilt at Cumberland Gate Thomas Cubitt completes the reconstruction at the corner of Hyde Park after the palace needed the original site
1851
1827

John Nash designs the arch

Built as the state entrance to Buckingham Palace, faced in Carrara marble and modelled on the Arch of Constantine.

1833

Construction completes

Work resumes under Edward Blore after a pause following George IV's death, and the arch is finished at the palace.

1851

The arch is rebuilt at Hyde Park

Dismantled to make way for palace expansion, then rebuilt by Thomas Cubitt at its current Cumberland Gate site.

1900

Marble Arch tube station opens

The junction becomes directly connected to the growing London Underground network.

2021

The BID renews to 2026

Around 200 member businesses back a further five-year term for the Marble Arch Business Improvement District.

What it means for a business trading here today

Real footfall, real competition.

Oxford Street, Park Lane and Edgware Road all feed this junction — and so do the hundreds of other businesses trying to catch the same customer.

A recognised hospitality strip.

Edgware Road's restaurants and cafés draw customers specifically looking for that strip, not just anywhere near Oxford Street.

A district that already promotes itself.

The BID markets Marble Arch as a whole — a business still needs its own site to be chosen inside it.

Getting found locally

Hundreds of businesses on one junction means a generic search finds someone else first.

"Restaurant edgware road", "hotel marble arch", "shop near me": searches that need to name the street or the district precisely, because Marble Arch is dense with competition. Website + SEO is the ongoing work of making sure that search finds you. See Westminster City Council's own page on The Marble Arch Business Improvement District.

  • Local searches, agreed with you. We pick the three searches that matter most to your business — say, "restaurant edgware road marble arch", "hotel near marble arch" and "shop near me" — and work on them every month.
  • Google Business Profile. Set up and kept current so you appear on the map for Marble Arch, with your hours, your menu or services and a way to reach you.
  • Reviews from genuine customers. A simple way to ask satisfied customers for a Google review once a visit or booking is done — a real edge among hundreds of nearby options.
  • Pages for what you actually offer. Your menu, rooms or stock written properly, not one generic page competing with every other business on the junction.
  • A monthly report you can read. A straightforward account each month of what changed and what's next, in your Client Platform.

We never promise rankings or a number of customers. We do promise consistent, honest work on being found locally — and to show you exactly what we did.

A Lebanese restaurant with outdoor seating on Edgware Road, near Marble Arch

Built for you

A Marble Arch business deserves a site as sharp as the competition around it.

Whether it's a restaurant on Edgware Road or a shop near Oxford Street's west end, a Marble Arch business deserves a site built around what actually sets it apart — not a generic template with the postcode swapped in.

Every PrimeStart website is designed from scratch and custom coded on WordPress in HTML and PHP — no page builders, no theme bought off a shelf with your name typed in.

“Two hundred businesses trade on one junction. The website has to say plainly why this one is worth choosing tonight.”

Why a Marble Arch website needs more than a location pin
Custom HTML & PHP on WordPress No page-builder templates Fast on mobile Yours after the term
The Speakers' Corner cafe kiosk in Hyde Park, near Marble Arch, with people relaxing outside
1Location 2Offer 3Reviews 4Booking or enquiry form
  • 1

    Your exact spot, named

    Edgware Road, Oxford Street or your own street named directly, so a visitor knows exactly where to find you.

  • 2

    What you actually sell, structured for search

    Your menu, rooms or stock described the way people searching around Marble Arch actually search for it.

  • 3

    Your reviews, shown where people compare

    Genuine Google reviews shown on the site, because a junction this dense is won on trust as much as visibility.

  • 4

    A form or link that asks the right questions

    Party size, timing and how to reach you — so you can respond properly without a wasted first contact.

What's included

Everything a website needs to run, handled for you.

You don't need to learn hosting, domains or WordPress. Every PrimeStart website comes with the technical side done and looked after — for as long as you're with us.

Design & build

  • Custom design around your businessApproved by you
  • Custom coded on WordPressHTML & PHP
  • Up to 5 pages to startMore via your platform
  • Mobile-first, fast loading

Hosting & security

  • Hosting, included
  • Domain name & SSL certificate
  • Daily backups
  • Security monitoring & updates

Changes & management

  • Small changes when you need themWithin service scope
  • WordPress & plugin updatesEvery month
  • Enquiry forms to your phone
  • Support from real people

Your Client Platform

  • See your site's progress
  • Request changes in a click
  • Order extra pages
  • SEO reports (Website + SEO)Monthly
The Dorchester Hotel frontage on Park Lane, near Marble Arch
While you're on the job

We're on the website. Updates, fixes, backups and changes happen in the background — you'll only hear from us when there's something worth hearing.

How it starts

Tell us about your businessWhat you offer, exactly where near Marble Arch you trade, and the customers you want more of.
See your designWe design your site and you approve it before anything goes live.
Go live, looked afterYour site launches, and we keep running it from then on.

Choose your plan

Two plans. The difference is whether you want help being found.

Both give you a complete, managed website. One adds ongoing local SEO work to it. Pay monthly, or pay upfront and save 15%.

Website

A professional website for your Marble Arch business, looked after for you.

£79.99a month

12-month plan. £0 upfront design fee.

Start my website
Months 1–12£79.99 a month
Month 13 on£49.99 a month unless you give notice
OwnershipYours after the 12-month term

£815.90once

12 months of Website paid upfront — saving £143.98.

Start my website
Instead of£959.88 over 12 months
Month 13 on£49.99 a month unless you give notice
OwnershipEarly handover once approved, or keep it managed

Design, build, hosting, domain, SSL, backups, updates, small changes, support and your Client Platform login.

First payment at signup, no setup charges. Monthly customers own their site after the agreed 12-month term; upfront customers can take early handover once the site is complete and approved. Full terms on the pricing page.

Questions

What Marble Arch businesses ask before they start.

The commercial questions, answered plainly. Anything else, ask us — a real person will call you back.

Marble Arch tube station entrance and street, with pedestrians and nearby shops

Not sure which plan?

Tell us about your business and how customers currently find you on this junction, and we'll say honestly whether local SEO is worth it for you yet.

Request a call
Do you work with businesses based at Marble Arch?
Yes, on Edgware Road, around Oxford Street's western end, near Park Lane and across Connaught Village. Everything is designed, built and managed remotely, so there is no office to visit.
Marble Arch already has a 200-member Business Improvement District. Do I still need my own website?
Yes, and arguably more so. The BID promotes the district as a whole, not your individual business inside it. A site that says clearly what you offer is what keeps you from being one indistinguishable name among 200.
How much does a website cost with PrimeStart?
Website is £79.99 a month for 12 months with no upfront design fee, or £815.90 paid once. Website + SEO is £349.99 a month in total, or £2,192.90 paid upfront. After the first 12 months, the service continues automatically at £49.99 a month with no new minimum term, unless you give 30 days' notice.
Do I own the website?
Yes. On the monthly plan the site is yours after the agreed 12-month term, subject to the contract. If you pay upfront you can choose an early handover once the site is complete and approved, or keep it managed with us.
How long until my site is live?
Once we have your details and photos we design your site, show it to you, make your amendments and go live only when you've approved it. You'll see the first design before anything is public.
Great Cumberland Place with traffic and Marble Arch visible in the distance

Get started

A junction that never stops moving. Give your Marble Arch business a website that keeps up.

Choose a plan, tell us exactly where near Marble Arch you trade, and see your first design before anything goes live.

Photographs: Dalvinder Singh Basi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons · MallSecrets.co.uk, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons · Kristina Dimitrova, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons · Anthony O'Neil, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons · Latoya Ralliford, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons · LondonHistoryatHome, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons · Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons · Bill Boaden, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons