Secret St Albans cinema talks next week (From St Albans & Harpenden Review)

Secret St Albans cinema talks next week

11:21am Friday 27th February 2009 in News By Alex Lewis

THE ambitious project for a cinema in St Albans city centre is to be discused by the district council cabinet in secret again on Tuesday.

The authority, which has been enmeshed for years in an elaborate scheme for a cinema in a large mainly residential building on the site of the Bricket Road car park, insists commercial confidentiality prevents it disclosing details of progress.

After the cabinet discussed the project in secret last month, opposition councillors speculated that the declining value of property was forcing drastic alterations to the scheme, which could be about to be dropped altogether.