Level 5 & 6 Takeover at Peckham Levels

Exclusive hire of Peckham Levels’ upper floors gives you something most London venues can’t offer: a functioning cultural hub, cleared of the public, with every bar, food trader, and entertainment space running for your guests alone. The Level 5 & 6 Takeover spans 1,250 standing or 900 seated across two full floors of a converted multi-storey car park that has operated as South London’s creative heartbeat since 2017. This isn’t blank canvas hire — it’s a venue that arrives fully charged.

What the Peckham Levels Takeover Includes

The takeover hands you exclusive access to everything across Levels 5 and 6. The Gig Space — a sound-treated performance venue with staging, its own bar, green room, terrace, and front-of-house facilities — holds up to 450 and handles live music, DJ sets, and presentations with genuine production capability. The Auditorium adds a 150-capacity screening and presentation room with built-in projector, screen, PA system, and a sloped floor designed for proper sightlines. Between and around these sit the bars, multiple street food traders, pool tables, foosball, retro arcade machines, and a private karaoke room. The effect is that guests don’t just attend an event — they explore a building. Different zones create different energy levels naturally, without you needing to design them. Someone playing arcade games on Level 6 while a DJ set runs in the Gig Space and a breakout meeting happens in the Auditorium: that kind of multi-layered experience usually requires a festival-scale budget to produce. Here, the infrastructure already exists.

Events That Suit the Level 5 & 6 Takeover

The format works hardest for events where variety and atmosphere matter more than formality. Corporate away days gain from the destination quality — the journey to SE15, the car park aesthetic, the street food instead of a set menu. Brand activations and product launches benefit from the built-in visual identity and the multiple zones that keep guests moving. Large birthday celebrations and milestone parties inherit years of cultural programming without needing to create atmosphere from scratch. Christmas parties land particularly well here. The multiple food traders mean guests choose what they eat rather than accepting a fixed menu — an approach that handles dietary requirements more naturally than most sit-down formats. The arcade games, karaoke room, and performance spaces create entertainment layers that don’t rely on a single DJ carrying the energy all night. Press launches and photography events find ready-made backdrops across the raw concrete structure, London skyline views, and the colourful trader units. Film screenings use the Auditorium’s dedicated projection and sightline design. Conferences work when the format benefits from an unconventional setting — the Gig Space handles a main stage while the Auditorium runs breakout sessions and the food hall feeds delegates between sessions.

Catering and Bars at Peckham Levels

Food at Peckham Levels comes through the resident street food traders rather than a single in-house caterer. For event planners, this means variety — guests move between vendors, choosing from multiple cuisines rather than navigating a fixed menu. In-house catering and bar packages are available for private hire, and the fully stocked bars are staffed and managed by the venue. The practical advantage for large events is that multiple food points reduce queuing and create natural circulation. Guests eat in waves rather than all sitting down simultaneously, which suits the building’s open, multi-level layout. The approach handles dietary variety well — different traders covering different cuisines means more bases covered without a complex pre-order process.

Peckham Levels: Practical Details

The venue is two minutes’ walk from Peckham Rye station, sitting above the Peckham Multiplex on Rye Lane. Cargo lift access handles production logistics for events with significant build-in requirements, and storage facilities support complex setups. The Gig Space is licensed to 1am with extensions available, while other spaces run to 00:30. The space is open to the public Wednesday to Sunday, meaning private hire of the full Level 5 & 6 Takeover is available outside these times or by arrangement. The raw car park structure — concrete ramps, open levels, urban skyline views from the upper floors — has been preserved rather than polished, giving events a visual identity that requires no additional theming. Photography and filming hire is available, and the building’s existing reputation in South London’s creative scene adds credibility that event dressing alone can’t buy.