The facilities, including a new Queen Vic, will be 20% bigger than the existing set enabling "greater editorial ambition and improved working conditions", said the BBC.
The BBC has refused to reveal the cost of the new site, which will be 20% bigger than the existing set, saying it was "commercially sensitive".
She said retailers wanted to keep open the option of fundamental reform, despite the government's current approach of tinkering with the existing set-up.
It will be 20% bigger than the existing set, which has been in service since the soap started broadcasting 30 years ago.
Now the existing set of sanctions could be rescinded.An end to sanctions might initially add about 1 percentage point to Iranian GDP growth, one leading Tehran-based economist predicts.
"The new set will provide a modern, upgraded exterior filming resource for EastEnders, replicating the appearance of the existing set but 20%% bigger to enable greater editorial ambition and improve working conditions for staff.
The exceptions, players who were deliberately bought with a view to overhauling the existing set-up, are Veron, Laurent Blanc, who both arrived ahead of the shambolic winter of 2001, and now Berbatov.
All the signs are that we'll see a watering down of ambition compared to the existing set of targets for 2020 on carbon emissions, renewable energy and energy efficiency.
A more interesting set of questions has to do with time-series dynamics: Why is it that sometimes, things get out of balance, and the existing set of rules is less successful in containing risk-taking?
Satellite radio, cable-TV and internet bloggers continue to undermine the legitimacy of the existing set of unduly restrictive ownership rules written when network-TV stations and radio companies dominated scarce broadcasting spectrum, he argues.
