Committee meet in 1930’s style
Wychavon’s Overview and Scrutiny (O&S)
meeting will take place at the newly refurbished Regal Cinema in
Evesham on 24 January at 4.15pm.
The meeting will provide the committee with an
opportunity to hear, and see, how Lumiere spent the £150k loan from
Wychavon as well as hearing the future plans for The Regal. The
Committee will receive a private tour of the facilities now on
offer after the massive investment in Evesham’s formally derelict
1930’s art deco cinema and will then receive a detailed
presentation focussing on the refurbishment as well as the future
plans for The Regal.
Cllr. Andy Dyke, Chair of O&S
said “We have on occasions taken our meetings out to
specific venues to get more community involvement or where we’ve
had a particular topic area that lends itself to a specific
location. We’ve decided to take the next meeting to The Regal so
that members of the committee can hear from the management of the
cinema first hand of their hard work and see how they have used the
loan from the council to help contribute to restoring The Regal to
its former glory.”
Emma Heathcote-James
spokesperson for The Regal said “We hope that members only
need to look around them during the meeting to see what their loan
has, in part, enabled us to
so sympathetically restore. This really will be a meeting with a
difference as members sink into our big swivel chairs and sit at
our round linen clad candlelit tables in the stalls, with our
beautiful art deco ceiling and delicately painted walls enveloping
them into an environment that is hard to second - the only thing
missing will be a glass of wine and a film! I am sure everyone will
proudly stand beside us to say we really have something special
here for Evesham and the county to be totally and utterly be proud
about"
As with all council meetings O&S is open
to the public who are warmly welcomed, however space is limited and
anyone wishing to attend should contact Will Wade on 01386 565429
or email william.wade@wychavon.gov.uk
by January 23rd. Questions to the committee
are always welcomed but must be submitted by 2.15pm on 24 January –
questions can be sent membersupport@wychavon.gov.uk
