Former cinema located in Berwick town centre, that has been vacant for a number of years. The conversion of the building offers opportunity to provide residential flats, potentially alongside other commercial uses. A number of proposals for redevelopment have been made over the years. Two parallel applications for demolition of the cinema and construction of a building providing ground floor retail units with apartments were refused in 2006 (N/06/B/0606, N/06/B/0609). A revised proposal for alteration and conversion of the existing building to create 20 apartments was then granted, but this lapsed despite extension, as works did not commence (N/07//B/0747. N/10/B/0099). Subsequently, conversion of the vacant building to hotel, also providing some retail and commercial floorspace at ground-floor level, was approved in 2016 (16/01675/FUL). Works have been completed. As a result, this site is no longer available for redevelopment. No longer considered developable/developable and future housing delivery is discounted in the SHLAA.
Playhouse Cinema, Sandgate, Berwick-upon-Tweed