The Liverpool Daily Post is reporting that the owners of the Neptune Theatre on Hanover Street in the city have said that they will refurbish the venue inside and out and return it to its "all-singing and dancing former glory."
Says the Daily Post...
"The news comes after Hanover and Liverpool city council ended a four-year deadlock over how much rent the council should pay to lease the building.
It will be music to the ears of the city’s amateur theatre groups who lost their much-loved home when it closed.
The venue was mothballed in 2005, needing massive refurbishment. Then the landlord and tenant fell out over the rent.
Hanover reportedly wanted to up the tenancy from £6,000 a year to nearer £60,000.
But, after a prolonged arbitration, the two sides agreed a “mutually acceptable” figure.
Last week, senior Liverpool councillors voted to sign a new five-year tenancy.
They also said there was a “six figure-sum” available to fix up the inside of the building, which first opened in 1913."
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Editors opinion: This could be excellent news for the culture in Liverpool. Since the venue closed a few years ago many people who could have gone into Amateur Dramatics would have either gone somewhere else or wouldn't have got started full stop. One feels however that the council missed another trick - it could, and should have been sorted for the Capital of Culture year in 2008 to show off how diverse our theatre heritege is in the city. Better late than never though eh?!
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