What's actually opening
What's actually opening This June, Workspace are unveiling a fresh wave of newly refurbished studios at The Biscuit Factory flexible spaces designed for everything from solo founders to growing teams.
Think generous floor plates, huge windows, thoughtful everything, and the kind of character you can't fake or build from scratch. If you've been looking for a Bermondsey base that doesn't feel like every other office in London, this is the one.
Introducing Jam Studios
The standout new addition is Jam Studios five storeys of offices, studios and workspaces designed as blank slates, ready for businesses to design and build out to suit exactly how they want to work.
Want a fully bespoke fit-out? Want a clean, flexible space your team can shape from scratch? That's the whole idea. Rather than handing over a finished room, Jam Studios gives businesses the canvas to make something properly their own.
The ground floor is being completely redesigned too, with a new café and reception area. It'll be a proper spot for light coworking, meetings, or just a coffee and a change of scene and open to the wider Bermondsey community, not just tenants.
That's a small but meaningful detail. The building isn't sealing itself off from the neighbourhood, it's opening up to it.
A building with proper history
This place was Peek Frean's, the people behind the bourbon, the garibaldi and a long list of biscuits you've definitely eaten. Founded in 1857, it became one of the country's biggest biscuit makers, employed over 4,000 people at its peak, and made the air around Bermondsey smell like baking for miles.
Locals knew the area as Biscuit Town. It had its own staff restaurants, sports ground, social club, even medical facilities. Decent wages, a five-day week, a real community built around the work. Forward-thinking stuff for the 1800s.
That's the spirit Workspace have leaned into. Not just preserving the building actually carrying the energy forward.
What it's like inside
Walk in and the bones are all still there. High ceilings, original fittings, those big industrial windows that flood everything with light. The floors are worn smooth in places from over a century of footsteps, and rather than smoothing them out, they've been incorporated as part of the interior design. Same with the dents in the walls and the marks of old machinery. The building wears its history.
Everything else has been brought sharply up to date. Comfortable communal areas, planting throughout, fast broadband across the site, and studio spaces that flex around how you actually work. It feels properly considered. Not overdone, not corporate just done well.
The community you'd be joining
This is where it gets interesting. The Biscuit Factory is already home to one of the most diverse working communities in SE1.
Independent fashion labels, podcast and film studios, branding agencies, architects, research labs, early-stage tech founders. The kind of mix where you'll find someone shooting a campaign next door to a product designer, with a podcaster recording across the hall. That cross-pollination is rare, and it's a big part of what makes the place feel alive.
It's the modern version of Biscuit Town same community spirit, different industries.
What's on site
Practical stuff matters when you're choosing a workspace, and The Biscuit Factory is well kitted out:
24-hour access, fast Wi-Fi throughout, meeting rooms, an on-site café, a fully equipped gym, showers, staffed reception, CCTV, cycle racks, loading bays, recycling facilities and parking. Everything you'd actually need, day to day.
Why the location works
If you're weighing up where to base yourself, location matters. The Biscuit Factory sits in one of the best-connected pockets of SE1.
Six minutes' walk from Bermondsey station on the Jubilee Line; one stop from London Bridge. Surrey Quays is a 15-minute walk in the other direction. A few minutes from Bermondsey Street and its restaurants, galleries and pubs. Walking distance to the Beer Mile, and the river. Southwark Park around the corner when you need some green. City and Canary Wharf both quick on the tube.
For staff, clients, partners, anyone you need to get to or from, it just works.
Why we'd recommend a look
Buildings like this don't come around often. Most of Bermondsey's grand Victorian factories were lost to the Blitz or knocked down for development. The Biscuit Factory is one of the survivors, and the way it's been brought back into use feels genuinely respectful of what it was.
If you're after a workspace with character, in an area that's still evolving in all the right ways, with a community of creative businesses already in place and now the chance to build something completely your own at Jam Studios. This one's worth a viewing.
Key Info
The Biscuit Factory - 100 Clements Road, London SE16 4DG Nearest stations: Bermondsey (Jubilee Line) one stop from London Bridge
New workspaces opening: June 2026
Enquiries & viewings: workspace.co.uk/workspaces/the-biscuit-factory
Available spaces: workspace.co.uk/workspaces/the-biscuit-factory/spaces
The Biscuit Factory has been part of Bermondsey for nearly 170 years, and the new workspaces opening this June are the next chapter. If you're thinking about where your business should be next, or just want to see one of the area's most iconic buildings from the inside, it's well worth a visit.
Book a viewing, take a look around, and see why this one keeps drawing people in.
