Trowbridge cinema plan meeting tonight (From Wiltshire Times)
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Trowbridge cinema plan meeting tonight
12:57pm Wednesday 20th June 2012 in News By Mike Wilkinson, Senior Reporter
Prorsus managing director Angus Horner is expected to address the meeting
Planning conditions which are to be imposed upon a Trowbridge cinema development are to be thrashed out tonight at what could be a heated meeting.
The developer Prorsus, who wants to build a Cineworld, Morrisons supermarket, six restaurants and a family pub on the old Bowyers pork pie factory site, off Stallard Street, has been working closely with council officers to agree on the conditions after councillors were minded to approve the plans in May.
The meeting of the Western Area Planning Committee will take place at 6pm at the Bradley Road council offices. The public are allowed to attend and speak.
The move will come up against opposition from Legal and General, the owners of a rival cinema site at St Stephen’s Place, and rival supermarket Asda.
The planning conditions that are to be set will include arrangements for improvements to the highway network around Stallard Street.
It is anticipated that Prorsus managing director Angus Horner, the man behind the bold multi-million pound scheme, will address the committee for a second time tonight.
See this Friday's Wiltshire Times for a full report on the meeting.
Comments(2)
AMVanquish007
says...
9:41pm Wed 20 Jun 12
misguided town traders who are
completely out of touch with
reality, these naive councillors
have effectively sealed their fate
at next years council elections.
That said, the Innox Riverside application has been removed from their hands and will no doubt go to appeal with the planning inspectorate and like many other refused planning applications in West Wiltshire will hopefully be overturned by a planning inspector in touch with the wishes of the local electorate.
HollyGreen says...
1:23pm Wed 20 Jun 12
Trowbridge does not need another supermarket.
We already have a cinema under construction. If this application is approved uncertainty will overshadow all the town centre sites, and I fear slow down or stop the development at St Stephens Place.
As we have a cinema under construction already, could the developer not offer something else?
The development will have an unacceptable impact on traffic, and the developer has offered no substantive mitigation. The highways officer from the council is rightly objecting.
The proposal fails to consider how to integrate the station location. There is huge scope to integrate the railway location into the plans and ensure a really effective public transport hub. At the moment the developer has some aspirations but nothing more. Experience says that aspirations rapidly evaporate once planning is achieved. Why not ask for something better?
The lack of quality is disappointing – come on Trowbridge make the developer do better – before it is too late.