It is a sad state of affairs when old bingo halls close down, but it is sadder still when developers look past the architectural merits of these old buildings t an decide to just flatten them regardless. The latest building to fall prey to developers is the old Odeon Cinema in Bradford which opened in 1930. The seventy-seven year old former cinema and bingo hall has been earmarked for demolition despite the Bradford Odeon Rescue Group making six applications not to have it demolished, the building is still considered to not be of enough architectural interest to be saved.
The former bingo hall and cinema is being surveyed in advance of a controversial planning application to replace it with a development called the New Victoria Place scheme. The planning application include replacing the old bingo club building with a £55 million plan for offices, apartments and a hotel, thes in themselves required the old bingo club to be taken down.
It was also found that the building contained enough asbestos to be able to cause a serious health threat, and this is in essence another reason why plans to save the building were turned down.
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