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Cinema plan for Trowbridge is back on


The former Peter Black site in Trowbridge has emerged as a possible location for a long-awaited cinema.

Adam Nardell, who is leading the Transforming Trowbridge project for Wiltshire Council, told an area board meeting on Thursday, that a developer wanted to buy the Cradle Bridge site, off County Way, and put in a cinema.

But this week Parkridge Developments, which owns the site, said they were not planning on selling it, but would consider including a cinema in their scheme instead.

The prospect of a cinema looked grim after the collapse of Modus’s £90m Waterside project, which included an eight-screen Vue cinema.

Nick Scott, director at Parkridge, said a cinema was a possibility for their scheme. They already have planning permission to put in a supermarket, restaurants, homes and a hotel.

“We would absolutely consider a cinema,” he said.

“We would have to work in partnership with the council and make sure they were happy from a planning point of view.

“There is demand in the town for a cinema as well and these things are an ever moving feast.

“From our point of view, we’ll look at all options but we’re very much focusing on what we have got planning permission for at the moment.

“There is someone who has been in touch recently inquiring about the site. But we get a lot of calls like this. We take it with a pinch of salt.”

Mr Scott said Parkridge may also consider buying the former Tesco site, in St Stephen’s Place, which is owned by Deutsche Bank, when it goes up for sale later this month.

Mr Nardell said £65m has already been invested in Trowbridge through The Gateway complex and the Sainsbury’s development, under way on the former Usher’s bottling plant site.


Your Say YourTimes

€d, Westbury says...
3:26pm Fri 2 Oct 09

Good news but I am a bit concerned. The thing that worries me is the quote from Nick Scott “We would have to work in partnership with the council". Any involvement with Trowbridge town council is bound to end in tears and disappointment.

farliegh, blackpool says...
3:26pm Fri 2 Oct 09

i hope trowbridge gets this cinema because otherwise i will have to really start moaning and this time protests will be with banners and road blocks

sirroms, Trowbridge says...
4:03pm Fri 2 Oct 09

I was sat with friends in my local boozer yesterday reading this story…. The general consensus was “yeah yeah” we have heard this so many times before. It looks like the tone of the story is that interested parties are already bickering and as €d so rightly put, if the town council are involved it will be a disaster!
Let see then.

lensman, Trowbridge says...
5:07pm Fri 2 Oct 09

Wouldn't it be wonderful if a developer was brave enough to just come in and build it ' overnight without bothering with consultation. Possibly a job for a certain Mr Rothschild! It seems any involvement with councils round here is doomed as the whole process takes far too long.

howcomethatdoesntsurpriseme, trowbotown says...
5:11pm Fri 2 Oct 09

Adam Nardell, who is leading the Transforming Trowbridge project for Wiltshire Council
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Well, Adam - get a real job my son - we're fed up with you and your worthless colleagues expensive and useless antics. Go and find a quiet corner and fall on your sword.

1984, southwick says...
11:28pm Fri 2 Oct 09

Same old spin
I've been spun so many times by this Council I feel positively sick.
If any newcomers to this town think we will get a cinema you might as well think that ther will be a bypass round Westbury as well.See on this web site in another ten years with more of our local taxes spent on 'jobs for the boys' withtheir useless feasibility studies,consultation papers and cream teas at County Hall !

lensman, Trowbridge says...
10:15am Sat 3 Oct 09

Just build it and they will come!! as quoted in a certain movie.

Nick Taken, Trowbridge says...
7:28pm Sat 3 Oct 09

lensman wrote:
Just build it and they will come!! as quoted in a certain movie.
Is that the film set in the wild wild west where prostitutes build a den of disrepute in some backwater town?
Similarities?

Bowers-peterblack-tescos, A derelict town says...
10:34am Tue 6 Oct 09

Blah blah blah blah same old tosh!
Has anyone had a look a the transforming trowbridge web site? It hasnt been updated in months / years. If the council cant even update a web site to show the poor people of this town what is happening with all of these projects how the hell can they run a project to up date the Town!
I have asked Mr Nardell several times to update this but nothing has been done....typical

Russell Sprouts, Brussels says...
2:20pm Wed 7 Oct 09

Here are some FACTS:

I have never been arrested and I have no Police Record at all.

I did once receive a Police Warning (ie. unsolicited written advice from the Police) in 2006. It exists as documentary evidence of ill-judged Police interference in an obvious political dispute and which was written without talking to me first. It was based on false allegations made by an old man who is a serial false accuser and serial smear campaigner and who has a clear and long track record of being obsessed with spreading silly stories and making politically-motivate
d, muddled and false claims about me. It came as no surprise when Bill Braid then told various newspapers as part of his smear campaign.

Mr Braid (who became a Westbury Town Councillor again in late 2008) made dozens of false allegations about me to the Standards Board for England in Summer 2005, Summer 2006 and Summer 2007. The 500+ pages, overall, of nonsense was totally thrown out as unacceptable either by the Standards Board for England itself or by a local investigator or at a local hearing because it was all based on bizarrely out-of-context or muddled quotes, hopelessly muddled, unsubstantiated claims, outright falsehoods (ie. lies) and/ or they were not matters which breached any code of conduct anyway (ie. I was doing nothing wrong, though a very muddled person may not understand this). Not one single allegation by him – or the several people he has colluded with – has ever stood up. I was totally exonerated.

Another old man (a Bill Braid supporter – I have photographic and other evidence), is currently running a smear campaign against me using internet chat forums and public comment posts on Wiltshire Times web pages, based on wildly untrue and /or very childish and/or puerile claims and jibes. It is a pity that the Administrators of these web sites fail to properly moderate internet “trolls” to stop their unpleasant and outrageously rude and/or libellous posts.

Nick Taken, Trowbridge says...
12:41pm Thu 8 Oct 09

Bloody Hell!

Either that was posted in the wrong thread or you really do need to seek some form of therapy.

Not Kate Price, Warminster says...
5:44pm Thu 8 Oct 09

Russell Sprouts wrote:
Here are some FACTS:

I have never been arrested and I have no Police Record at all.

I did once receive a Police Warning (ie. unsolicited written advice from the Police) in 2006. It exists as documentary evidence of ill-judged Police interference in an obvious political dispute and which was written without talking to me first. It was based on false allegations made by an old man who is a serial false accuser and serial smear campaigner and who has a clear and long track record of being obsessed with spreading silly stories and making politically-motivate

d, muddled and false claims about me. It came as no surprise when Bill Braid then told various newspapers as part of his smear campaign.

Mr Braid (who became a Westbury Town Councillor again in late 2008) made dozens of false allegations about me to the Standards Board for England in Summer 2005, Summer 2006 and Summer 2007. The 500+ pages, overall, of nonsense was totally thrown out as unacceptable either by the Standards Board for England itself or by a local investigator or at a local hearing because it was all based on bizarrely out-of-context or muddled quotes, hopelessly muddled, unsubstantiated claims, outright falsehoods (ie. lies) and/ or they were not matters which breached any code of conduct anyway (ie. I was doing nothing wrong, though a very muddled person may not understand this). Not one single allegation by him – or the several people he has colluded with – has ever stood up. I was totally exonerated.

Another old man (a Bill Braid supporter – I have photographic and other evidence), is currently running a smear campaign against me using internet chat forums and public comment posts on Wiltshire Times web pages, based on wildly untrue and /or very childish and/or puerile claims and jibes. It is a pity that the Administrators of these web sites fail to properly moderate internet “trolls” to stop their unpleasant and outrageously rude and/or libellous posts.
Please make an appointment with your GP as soon as poss thanks

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