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Doncaster’s new venue gets planning approval
2nd Sep 2010
Doncaster Council’s planning committee has approved plans for the complex, which will sit at the heart of the town’s new £300 million Civic and Cultural Quarter.
Earlier this year, The Stage reported that more than a third of the funding for the new performance venue hangs in the balance, as regional development agency Yorkshire Forward, one of its major supporters, awaits the outcome of the government’s spending review. The £9.1 million it pledged is contingent on the budget it is handed down this autumn.
The new space will include a 600-seat auditorium, a smaller, adaptable performance space and studios and it will replace the town’s Civic Theatre, which will close when the new venue opens.
Building work is expected to start next year and it is hoped the new venue will open in 2013.
Source: The Stage
