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Developer to start survey of Odeon site
12:02am Tuesday 6th May 2008
Survey work begins this week on Bradford's Odeon cinema building, ahead of a planning application to develop the site.
The plans for the 77-year-old building by developer Langtree Artisan had been put on hold while a bid for the building to be listed was being considered.
Six weeks ago, English Heritage confirmed the former theatre and bingo hall, which opened in 1930, was not of sufficient architectural interest to warrant saving.
It was the sixth failed application to get the building listed in just over a decade and is likely to spell the end of the campaign to save the Odeon.
Yorkshire Forward bought the building for £2m in 2003 and a design competition was run in 2006 by Bradford Centre Regeneration. The winner was Langtree Artisan and its £55m New Victoria Place scheme - a mixed-use development of offices, apartments and a hotel - which means demolition for the former cinema.
Yorkshire Forward now has a legal agreement with the developer.
The work that begins this week includes an asbestos survey and a structural survey. It follows initial independent reports commissioned by BCR and Yorkshire Forward in 2004 which stated there was a "significant risk of asbestos" in 37 areas within the building.
A spokesman for Yorkshire Forward said: "Following the decision by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and English Heritage not to list the Odeon building in Bradford, Langtree Artisan will be undertaking survey work on the site, including an asbestos survey and structural survey. Work will commence this week and is anticipated to take up to three months."
Bradford Odeon Rescue Group (BORG) came up with its own scheme, retaining the towers and creating a third. Their plans would have seen a 132-bed hotel, car park, a nightclub and auditorium.
BORG member John Pennington said there was asbestos, but only in the fabric of the building and that it was approximately 0.03 per cent.
"There is no more asbestos in that building than there is in City Hall," he said. "We've been told it was all taken out in the 1980s."
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Where is me hat?, Bradford says...
5:53am Tue 6 May 08
How many years will this remain a building site? 10, 20, 30?
Where is me hat?, Bradford says...
5:53am Tue 6 May 08
How many years will this remain a building site? 10, 20, 30?
Where is me hat?, Bradford says...
5:53am Tue 6 May 08
How many years will this remain a building site? 10, 20, 30?
sajenkin, Odsal says...
9:22am Tue 6 May 08
sajenkin, Odsal says...
9:22am Tue 6 May 08
sajenkin, Odsal says...
9:22am Tue 6 May 08
sajenkin, Odsal says...
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sajenkin, Odsal says...
9:24am Tue 6 May 08
sajenkin, Odsal says...
9:24am Tue 6 May 08
sajenkin, Odsal says...
9:24am Tue 6 May 08
sajenkin, Odsal says...
9:24am Tue 6 May 08
?, bradford says...
12:31pm Tue 6 May 08
Even if they can't decide what to do with it now. They should knock it down make it into a temp car park until they decide what they can do with the area.
?, bradford says...
12:31pm Tue 6 May 08
Even if they can't decide what to do with it now. They should knock it down make it into a temp car park until they decide what they can do with the area.
?, bradford says...
12:31pm Tue 6 May 08
Even if they can't decide what to do with it now. They should knock it down make it into a temp car park until they decide what they can do with the area.
?, bradford says...
12:31pm Tue 6 May 08
Even if they can't decide what to do with it now. They should knock it down make it into a temp car park until they decide what they can do with the area.
David, Bradford says...
12:31pm Tue 6 May 08
Are their proposals not being given consideration by our Council? Why our our Council letting Maud get away with this demolish at all costs, one would think Maud was in charge of Bradford!
Regards
David
David, Bradford says...
12:31pm Tue 6 May 08
Are their proposals not being given consideration by our Council? Why our our Council letting Maud get away with this demolish at all costs, one would think Maud was in charge of Bradford!
Regards
David
David, Bradford says...
12:31pm Tue 6 May 08
Are their proposals not being given consideration by our Council? Why our our Council letting Maud get away with this demolish at all costs, one would think Maud was in charge of Bradford!
Regards
David
David, Bradford says...
12:31pm Tue 6 May 08
Are their proposals not being given consideration by our Council? Why our our Council letting Maud get away with this demolish at all costs, one would think Maud was in charge of Bradford!
Regards
David
Mark Nicholson, Wibsey says...
2:26pm Tue 6 May 08
So BCR and Yorkshire Forward are finally seeking a structural survey? One can only imagine what horrors another "commissioned" and biased report will throw up this time!!! This should have been done independently years ago...
Mark Nicholson, Wibsey says...
2:26pm Tue 6 May 08
So BCR and Yorkshire Forward are finally seeking a structural survey? One can only imagine what horrors another "commissioned" and biased report will throw up this time!!! This should have been done independently years ago...
Mark Nicholson, Wibsey says...
2:26pm Tue 6 May 08
So BCR and Yorkshire Forward are finally seeking a structural survey? One can only imagine what horrors another "commissioned" and biased report will throw up this time!!! This should have been done independently years ago...
Mark Nicholson, Wibsey says...
2:26pm Tue 6 May 08
So BCR and Yorkshire Forward are finally seeking a structural survey? One can only imagine what horrors another "commissioned" and biased report will throw up this time!!! This should have been done independently years ago...
exbradfordian, cumbria says...
3:30pm Tue 6 May 08
exbradfordian, cumbria says...
3:30pm Tue 6 May 08
exbradfordian, cumbria says...
3:30pm Tue 6 May 08
exbradfordian, cumbria says...
3:30pm Tue 6 May 08
Odeon Crusader, Bradford says...
4:13pm Tue 6 May 08
The whole thing stinks quite frankly and we shouldn't be letting this happen! The Odeon building was bought with public money by a government-created body and our feelings have been ignored.
So much for Kris Hopkins and Jan Anderson's pledge to sell the Odeon on, despite BORG working against the clock to bang their scheme into shape.
Odeon Crusader, Bradford says...
4:13pm Tue 6 May 08
The whole thing stinks quite frankly and we shouldn't be letting this happen! The Odeon building was bought with public money by a government-created body and our feelings have been ignored.
So much for Kris Hopkins and Jan Anderson's pledge to sell the Odeon on, despite BORG working against the clock to bang their scheme into shape.
Odeon Crusader, Bradford says...
4:13pm Tue 6 May 08
The whole thing stinks quite frankly and we shouldn't be letting this happen! The Odeon building was bought with public money by a government-created body and our feelings have been ignored.
So much for Kris Hopkins and Jan Anderson's pledge to sell the Odeon on, despite BORG working against the clock to bang their scheme into shape.
Odeon Crusader, Bradford says...
4:13pm Tue 6 May 08
The whole thing stinks quite frankly and we shouldn't be letting this happen! The Odeon building was bought with public money by a government-created body and our feelings have been ignored.
So much for Kris Hopkins and Jan Anderson's pledge to sell the Odeon on, despite BORG working against the clock to bang their scheme into shape.
Richard, Everywhere says...
5:55pm Sun 1 Jun 08
I bet they'd have said the same about the Midland Hotel building too.
So, who do we believe? Ms Marshall, who has renovated (zero) derelict buildings, or Mr Pennington, who did a sterling job on the Midland?
Richard, Everywhere says...
5:55pm Sun 1 Jun 08
I bet they'd have said the same about the Midland Hotel building too.
So, who do we believe? Ms Marshall, who has renovated (zero) derelict buildings, or Mr Pennington, who did a sterling job on the Midland?
Richard, Everywhere says...
5:55pm Sun 1 Jun 08
I bet they'd have said the same about the Midland Hotel building too.
So, who do we believe? Ms Marshall, who has renovated (zero) derelict buildings, or Mr Pennington, who did a sterling job on the Midland?
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Where is me hat?, Bradford says...
5:53am Tue 6 May 08
How many years will this remain a building site? 10, 20, 30?