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Grosvenor nets Southampton project
Council unveils initial
£13m arts complex scheme to transform site of former Tyrrell and Green store
Leeds Arena designs
Leeds City Council has By Tom Walker
launched a public consultation
into the next stage of planning Southampton City Council (SCC)
for the city's new arena after has named the international
initial designs for the proposed property company, Grosvenor,
venue were revealed. The process as the preferred bidder for the
will provide local residents with city's new £13m arts complex.
the first chance to view the The 200,000sq ft (18,581sq
proposed interior layout and m) mixed-use scheme, which
planned location of the arena, aims to transform the site of
which is set to boast the UK's the former Tyrrell and Green
first 'super theatre' layout. department store, was selected
Designs for the interior of the from a number of rival bids.
new Leeds Arena, which will be Plans drawn up by Grosve- Plans for the new centre were drawn up by London-based CZWG
operated by SMG Europe, feature nor's partner architects CZWG
a two-tier seating bowl layout for the proposed complex ment, said: "The Cultural private and public investment
with the furthest seats located include 75,000sq ft (6,968sq Quarter is a key part of our to this area of the city."
just 68m (223ft) from the stage. m) of gallery spaces, auditori- wider plans for the physical The arts complex will form a
ums and educational areas as regeneration of the city centre part of the planned new
Major facelift for
well as restaurants, apartments and economic development Cultural Quarter for Southamp-
Hertford arts venue
and retail units. of the city. ton. Other projects include the
Hertford's Castle Hall is set to Royston Smith, SCC's cabinet "The proposals are helping to Sea City Museum Project,
undergo a major refurbishment member for economic develop- bring in around £175m of scheduled to open in 2012.
after East Hertfordshire District
Council (EHDC) agreed to
appoint architects to draw up
More arts organisations net ACE funding support
detailed designs for the scheme.
EHDC has already earmarked By Pete Hayman which received £1.45m – the
£600,000 to revamp the venue, largest share of funding – while
which could include a new Arts Council England (ACE) has Halle Concerts Society in
gallery space, a new café and a announced that a further Manchester netted £800,000.
dance studio, as well as the £6.2m is to be invested in a London Philharmonic
possibility of screening total of 18 arts organisations Orchestra (£556,500), Oldham
cinema-quality films and staging over the next two years as part

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Coliseum Theatre (459,800)
a professional pantomime by of the Sustain initiative.
:
jonty
and Chichester Festival Theatre
Christmas 2010. The £40m Sustain pro- image (£427,000) also received grants.
gramme was launched in a bid Yorkshire Sculpture Park has 10 Sustain applications were
Irish Arts Council in
to maintain artistic excellence received £1.45m ACE support declined, however, with ACE
tax exemption call
during the recession, and aims still considering bids for a share
Ireland's Arts Council has to help organisations that are Among the recipients of the of a further £31m funding; the
urged the government to reject currently under pressure during latest awards is Yorkshire latest round of which will be
recommendations to withdraw a the 2009-11 period. Sculpture Park in Wakefield, announced in October.
tax exemption scheme for Irish
artists as part of efforts to
reform the country's tax system.
Threshold stone unveiled at new £18m Belfast theatre
The agency, which is responsible
for arts development in Ireland, A ceremony has been held in Belfast, Northern size of the city's former Lyric Theatre, which
has warned that the Commission Ireland to mark the unveiling of the threshold first opened to the public in 1968 before
on Taxation's recommendation stone on the site of the new £18m Lyric closing its doors in January 2008.
could cost the Irish economy Theatre, which is scheduled to open in 2011. Construction work started in March on the
E36m (£31.4m, US$52.1m) in Designed by Dublin-based architects new theatre, which will boast a 400-seat
lost tax revenue as young artists O'Donnell and Tuomey, the new building on capacity auditorium, a 150-seat studio theatre,
leave the country and pursue Ridgeway Street will be almost four times the a rehearsal room, riverfront foyers and a bar.
commercial success overseas.
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