LCB Depot is a service operated by Leicester City Council to support the city’s creative industries. 

We offer workspaces at both LCB Depot in Rutland Street and  Phoenix Square digital media centre exclusively for creative businesses, all of which have 24 hour access. 

Our workspaces are aimed at companies and individuals working within, or providing a service that is an important part of the supply chain to, the creative industries:

Advertising, Animation, Antiques, Architecture, Arts, Arts Consultancy, Arts Development, Arts Education, Arts Festivals, Arts Training, Audio Production, Brand Management, Broadcasting, Comedy, Computer Games, Crafts, Dance, Design, Designer Fashion, Digital Arts, Digital Design, Events Management, Fashion, Film, Gaming, Graphic Design, Illustration, Interactive Leisure Software, Interior Design, Knitwear, Literature, Marketing, Media Production & Broadcast, Multimedia, Music Distribution, Music Production, Music Promotion, New Media, Online Publishing, Performing Arts, Photography, PR, Product Design, Public Art, Publishing, Radio, Record Label, Social Networking, Software, Television, Textile Design, Theatre, Video, Visual Arts, Web Design, Web Software

Our workspaces at LCB Depot  range in size from 15m2 to148m2 and cost from £160 to £1600 per month plus VAT. Services such as electricity, telephony and internet, and business rates, are charged in addition. 

See our Workspace FAQs.

We have  53 workspaces at LCB Depot and 22 at Phoenix Square. All spaces are unfurnished but we can discuss lease options on furniture if required. We offer a managed internet and telephony system meaning you can plug in and go from the day you move in.

Our standard lease is a two-year term with a three-month written notice period. Providing you serve the sufficient notice there is no surrender fee if you do not complete the full two-year term. In certain cases we are able to offer shorter lease periods and would be happy to talk this through with you.

To be eligible to lease one of our workspaces you must be working within the creative industries. 

If you're not sure that you meet our creative industries criteria, you can read our letting policy here.

We have the following workspaces available to lease (February 2012):

LCB Depot

A3.04         430 sq ft        £430 + VAT pcm

B2.03         332 sq ft        £332 + VAT pcm

Phoenix Square

WS9           972 sq ft        £972 + VAT pcm

WS14         453 sq ft        £453 + VAT pcm

WS20         972 sq ft        £972 + VAT pcm

WS21         462 sq ft        £462 + VAT pcm

Check out the location of our available workspaces at LCB Depot - vacant workspaces are marked green on the floorplans.

Check out the location of our available workspaces at Phoenix Square - see Floors 2 and 3, vacant workspaces are green.

If you are a creative business and would like to arrange a tour of our workspaces at Phoenix Square or LCB Depot, please contact info@lcbdepot.co.uk or ring 0116 261 6800.

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