At the City Planning Committee today a last minute effort by the Chairman to defer a decision on the Hippodrome plans went unsupported. The Committee then voted 8 to 3 with one abstention to grant full planning application BH2013/04348 for alterations to the Hippodrome and Hippodrome House to form an 8 screen cinema and 4 associated cafe units.
They also voted 8 to 4 to grant listed building consent (BH2013/04351) for internal and external alterations, restoration and repair to the Hippodrome and Hippodrome House to facilitate conversion to cinemas and associated café/restaurant units.
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Gosh, very much in two minds. I'd prefer something more attuned to the surround building, but pastiche can be disastrous.
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised the old building couldn't be revived as a theatre, but there is the Theatre Royal.