The former 10-screen Odeon closed down in June 2023 and since then the screens have been stripped out
The future of Blackpool ’s former Odeon cinema site is set to be decided at a town hall hearing. Plans to convert the building on Rigby Road into a self-storage facility were refused by Blackpool Council, but developer Austringer Capital Ltd appealed the decision with a date now set for a planning hearing.
A document submitted to the hearing by the council sets out a number of reasons for its decision and concludes: “The conflict with the aforementioned policies would undermine the spatial strategy for the location of future employment development and the Inner Area regeneration aspirations set out in the Development Plan, when read as a whole.
The former 10-screen Odeon closed down in June 2023 after the lease came to an end. Since then the screens have been stripped out.
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