Web design for businesses in Hackney's Shoreditch

Shoreditch High Street sits in Hackney. The next block over can sit in Tower Hamlets, under exactly the same name.

A Shoreditch website that states which borough, street and junction you actually trade from, for £49.99 a month.

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

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

Two ways to start on Shoreditch High Street.

A professional website, or that website with ongoing SEO from the start. Both start from the same problem: a name shared with the borough next door.

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Website
£49.99per month

£0 upfront website design fee

Start with a professional website.

For bars, restaurants, retail and offices trading on Shoreditch High Street or around the Old Street junction, who need a site that states which borough and which street precisely.

  • Managed WordPress website, generally up to 5 pages
  • Built around your services, areas and enquiries
  • Domain name, hosting, SSL, backups and updates handled
  • Reasonable small changes, subject to fair use
  • 18-month minimum, then the website is yours
  • Nothing published until you approve it
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Website + SEO
£349.99per month total

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

Or have us working on Google from day one.

For Shoreditch High Street businesses competing against listings from across the Tower Hamlets boundary, where being found for the right borough matters as much as being found at all.

  • 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; months count towards the Website term
  • Additional agreed searches £50/month each

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

A Shoreditch search can return two boroughs before it returns your street.

"Bar shoreditch high street", "restaurant ec2", "hairdresser near me": each has to be answered with the exact street and station exit, because 'Shoreditch' alone spans two councils. Ongoing SEO is monthly work on three agreed searches like these.

  1. 01
    “bar Shoreditch High Street

    Typed by someone who could be standing in either of two boroughs, so the listing that states the actual street number and the Hackney side of the junction is the one that gets trusted first.

  2. 02
    “restaurant EC2

    A postcode search rather than a place name, because EC2A already spans the Hackney and Tower Hamlets stretches of Shoreditch and needs the street to disambiguate it.

  3. 03
    “hairdresser near me

    Made by someone stepping off Shoreditch High Street station not knowing which exit, or which borough, puts them nearest to you.

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.

Illustration of a local search results page for “bar shoreditch high street”: 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.

Shoreditch

Shoreditch High Street, Boxpark and St Leonard's, on the Hackney side of a name two boroughs share.

Shoreditch sits in the London Borough of Hackney alongside neighbouring parts of Tower Hamlets, and Shoreditch High Street station, which opened on 27 April 2010, is registered in both boroughs at once. Boxpark opened in December 2011 in sixty recycled shipping containers, was rebuilt in 2017 to carry nineteen restaurants and bars and twenty-seven shops, and continued trading after a 2024 closure plan was reversed. St Leonard's, the ancient parish church named in the nursery rhyme 'Oranges and Lemons', stands at the junction where Kingsland Road, Hackney Road and Shoreditch High Street meet, and only the Hackney-side eastern end of Old Street, up to that same junction, is sourced as this borough's ground.

That matters for anyone searching for a Shoreditch business, because the borough line between Hackney and Tower Hamlets runs invisibly through the area and a map app has no reason to draw it for a customer. A business two hundred metres one way trades under a different council and a different set of local listings, all still calling themselves Shoreditch. Getting found for the right one means saying exactly which side of the junction, which stretch of Shoreditch High Street, and which station exit applies to you, not relying on the name alone.

That is what the website has to do here specifically: name the street number, the nearest exit of Shoreditch High Street station, and the landmark you are closest to, whether that is Boxpark, St Leonard's or the Old Street junction. We build that clarity into the site for the businesses trading on Shoreditch High Street and around the junction, hosted and kept secure, with ongoing SEO available if you want it.

Eighteen months, then the website is yours.

Boxpark has already been rebuilt once since 2011. A website that only ever rents itself back to you monthly doesn't match that kind of investment. 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.

Shoreditch industries

The trade decides the shape of the site. Two boroughs decide who else shows up in the search.

A bar on Shoreditch High Street and an office near the Old Street junction are both competing against listings from the Tower Hamlets side of the same name.

See every industry we build for

Everything a Shoreditch business needs from its website, in one monthly plan.

Design, build, hosting, security and the ongoing technical work are all part of the same plan, so there is nothing to add on and nothing to remember to renew.

What £49.99 a month covers
  • Design
  • Build
  • Hosting
  • SSL & security
  • Backups
  • Updates
  • Enquiry forms
  • Mobile-ready
  • Ongoing management
  • Support
£49.99/month £0 upfront website design fee

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Questions

Questions from Shoreditch businesses

Do you work with businesses on Shoreditch High Street?
Yes, on Shoreditch High Street itself and around Boxpark and the Old Street junction. Everything is designed, built and managed remotely, so there is no office to visit.
Shoreditch is in two boroughs. Does that actually matter for a website?
It matters more than most site copy accounts for. Shoreditch is in Hackney alongside neighbouring parts of Tower Hamlets, and Shoreditch High Street station is registered in both. A listing that only says 'Shoreditch' leaves a customer guessing which council, and which set of nearby businesses, is actually yours. We name the street, the junction and the borough side plainly.
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 Shoreditch High Street 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 Shoreditch business website cost?
Website is £49.99 a month with a £0 upfront design fee, and it costs the same in Shoreditch 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 "bar shoreditch high street" or "restaurant ec2", alongside your Google Business Profile and the website itself. Nobody can promise rankings, and we don't.
Is this the same as the Hoxton page?
No. Hoxton's page is for Hoxton Street Market, Hoxton Hall and Hoxton Square. This page is written only for businesses on Shoreditch High Street, around Boxpark and the Old Street junction.
Is there a PrimeStart office in Shoreditch?
No. We have no premises in Shoreditch or anywhere in Hackney. Design, build, hosting and support are all handled remotely.

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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 Shoreditch and the rest of Hackney.

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

Ready for a Shoreditch website that names your exact borough and street?

A professional website for £49.99 a month, designed, built and looked after by PrimeStart, with ongoing SEO ready whenever you want more of the right Shoreditch customers 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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