News: Plans revived for historic Rotherham building
A set of plans are back on the table after the future of a historic building in Rotherham town centre was secured.
Rothbiz has reported on the revival of the iconic Empire Theatre, a former cinema on Ship Hill / High Street that has successfully undergone a large restoration project. It is also known as the Essoldo building and was built in 1913 as the Empire Theatre. It has since operated as a cinema, snooker hall and nightclub.
With SME Holdings Ltd securing planning permission for the change of use of the premises from a night club use to a theatre / music venue use class, a new set of plans has been submitted for another part of the building.
The three storey property known as Essoldo Chambers on High Street has long had an active ground floor as the location for the Italian Pizza Oven in years gone by.
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Improvements were carried out to the Essoldo Chambers building more than a decade ago as part of Rotherham Council's Townscape Heritage Initiative but the upper floors have remained vacant. They could now be brought back into use, if new plans are approved.
The plans from Imran Javed are for the conversion of the first and second floors to create eight flats and echo previously approved plans from 2008. Further plans in 2020 to make alterations and change the use of the ground floor shops were refused.
The latest plans, drawn up by YS Design Services Ltd, show three, 2-bed flats on the first floor and two, 2-bed, and three, 1-bed flats on the second floor.
The building is not a listed building but sits within the town centre conservation area. The latest plans do not include any alterations to the exterior with access already provided from the front, seperate to the commercial units.
The Rotherham town centre masterplan of 2017 confirmed the need for more housing and leisure uses as a way to develop economic vitality, bringing more life, activity and spending back into the town centre and moving away from the traditional retail market.
Images: Google Maps
Rothbiz has reported on the revival of the iconic Empire Theatre, a former cinema on Ship Hill / High Street that has successfully undergone a large restoration project. It is also known as the Essoldo building and was built in 1913 as the Empire Theatre. It has since operated as a cinema, snooker hall and nightclub.
With SME Holdings Ltd securing planning permission for the change of use of the premises from a night club use to a theatre / music venue use class, a new set of plans has been submitted for another part of the building.
The three storey property known as Essoldo Chambers on High Street has long had an active ground floor as the location for the Italian Pizza Oven in years gone by.
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Improvements were carried out to the Essoldo Chambers building more than a decade ago as part of Rotherham Council's Townscape Heritage Initiative but the upper floors have remained vacant. They could now be brought back into use, if new plans are approved.
The plans from Imran Javed are for the conversion of the first and second floors to create eight flats and echo previously approved plans from 2008. Further plans in 2020 to make alterations and change the use of the ground floor shops were refused.
The latest plans, drawn up by YS Design Services Ltd, show three, 2-bed flats on the first floor and two, 2-bed, and three, 1-bed flats on the second floor.
The building is not a listed building but sits within the town centre conservation area. The latest plans do not include any alterations to the exterior with access already provided from the front, seperate to the commercial units.
The Rotherham town centre masterplan of 2017 confirmed the need for more housing and leisure uses as a way to develop economic vitality, bringing more life, activity and spending back into the town centre and moving away from the traditional retail market.
Images: Google Maps
19 comments:
Problem is,anyone who as got eyesight can see who ends up living in all these flats....clue....they like dinghy's,and they making town less and less attractive to visitors....unless your the type with blue or pink hair, don't know what sex you are, and carry a Palestine flag,and don't work!
Don’t you come on here with common sense! The lefty’s are coming for you!!
Racist drivel in first comment.
This comment is offensive
Something really needs to be done around the comments on this website. The majority have no relevance to the article posted and are just offensive drivel.
It's not drivel though is it? It might be uncomfortable and unpleasant but there's generally a truth to it. Stop burying you head in the sand.
I wish it was drivel!
how about you stick your name on that racist 1st statement, but you wont
Which bit of it was racist?
The first poster is a deeply unpleasant and intolerant human being.
But probably correct.
Correct in being a bigot? How does that work?
Be honest, even if you think the opening poster is unpleasant, do you completely disagree with them when they say who is going to be living in all these flat conversions in the town centre. Do you disagree that they're making the town less attractive to visitors?
Do you genuinely think it's young professionals looking to live in a bustling up and coming town that will be moving into them?
Who do you honestly think is going to live in them? Please answer because I genuinely want to know what you actually think on the matter.
I live in the Town Centre at Keppel Wharf. There are no asylum seekers living on the building. My colleague is currently renting in the Imperial buildings. Again no asylum seekers there. Sorry to spoil your narrative.
Nobody said they live in every building and if there were any in Rotherham town centre they weren't going to live in, it's those two.
It's probably why you and your colleague chose those two over the other poor quality flats in converted buildings that have sprung up over the town in recent years.
So why don't you tell us which town centre converted buildings ARE being used for the purpose you claim?
Or are you just peddling rumours again?
I would imagine the poster who actually lives in the town centre offers a more relevant and factual view than others commenting.
Agreed. Which flats in the Town Centre house asylum seekers?
Ah, but you see our resident experts on all things town centre never visit the place.
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