27 Apr Colchester to get boutique style cinema after years of planning
By Chad Nugent
PLANS for a boutique-style cinema in Colchester have finally been submitted, two-and-a-half years after the idea was first mooted.
Curzon has now applied to transform the derelict former Keddies department store based in Roman House, Queen Street, into a three-screen cinema.
As part of the plans, two spaces for restaurants will be created on the ground floor, while the auditoriums will be housed upstairs.
The proposal for the cinema to move into the building was first announced in 2013 with a proposed opening date of early last year, but a succession of legal problems have meant the project was delayed.
It is hoped the move will cement that part of town as Colchester’s creative quarter close to the new creative business centre, Firstsite and the Minories.
Colchester Council exchanged contracts on the leasehold of the building with Curzon in December 2015.
Curzon currently has 11 cinemas in the country, with seven of them based in London, with the proposed Colchester venue set to be the first in the East.
