MODERN HOMES
retained and restored cinema
with bar and a community
hall/fitness space. The new
properties are designed around
garden squares, landscaped
grounds, rill waterfeatures,
private gardens and protected
woodland complete with
parking and garaging.
used to screen movies to
Hollywood directors including
Stanley Kubrick, Albert “Cubby”
Broccoli and Steven Spielberg will be refurbished and turned
into a cinema theatre and club
for residents; retaining an
important link to the history of
the site.
The main Grade II listed
building will be converted
into 49 elegant apartments,
around this will be two new
green squares and communal
gardens, bordered by three new
four storey apartment buildings
providing 105 new homes.
Around the eastern side of
the site there will be avenues
of new three and four storey
terraced housing, and to the
northern section two and three
storey detached townhouses;
all overlooking communal
landscaping and private
gardens.
Reflecting the film studio
history of the site, there will be
movie themed public artwork
in the grounds. Highly original
and innovative, the new public
artwork will take the form of
large format plates of glass
(each circa 1.6 metres high by
4 metres long) which will be
etched with scenes from the
famous movies produced at
the film studios. The etched
glass will be backlit so that they
can be illuminated at night,
providing highly striking movie
themed artwork for residents
and visitors to enjoy.
Under current plans the
retained cinema – which was
Subject to the necessary
consents, the various streets
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ARCHITECTURE