The Times covered the closure of the Gala in its City Pages on 25th June:
“— The Gala bingo club in Upper Norwood, a nondescript suburb in South London, shuts at the weekend. Locals had somehow been given the impression that it would re-open as a cinema. In an apparent sign of the times, the forces of Mammon will instead be supplanted by an evangelical church”
The Times – 25th June, 2009.
Sounds like pure greed to me – Shame on Bromley Council…
If their priority is the highest bid, then how will that extra cash be directly fed back into the local community. I doubt it will be, in which case how can they justify making the highest bid the deciding factor in who to sell the site to.
We should see a breakdown of exactly where the money received for the sale will be going. If that happened then i wouldn’t be surprised if Bromley suddenly lost interest in pursuing the application…
Crystal Palace residents want a cinema, bring the Rialto back!
As Andreas said on VN “whatever one thinks about the Triangle, it is far from “nondescript”… typical lazy journalism… (by the national press of course, in contrast to our excellent local journalists)”
Couldn’t agree more!