'Reality Check' to Reveal What Future Holds for Our Damaged Hippodrome ; a Survey Is to Be Launched to Find Out What People Want to See Happen to the Former Hippodrome Theatre. Kirsty Green Reports.

Derby Evening Telegraph › December 14, 2011

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IT is being described as a "reality check" for Derby's Hippodrome and will be the first professional, independent study into what the damaged listed building can actually become.

The "options appraisal" commissioned by Derby Hippodrome Restoration Trust will examine the state of the building in Green Lane, what facilities are needed in the city and what could be done to the former theatre so it can meet them. Part of that will be finding out what the public wants. Crucially, this will create a business plan to show how any suggestions for its use would stack up in terms of pounds and pence.

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'Reality Check' to Reveal What Future Holds for Our Damaged Hippodrome ; a Survey Is to Be Launched to Find Out What People Want to See Happen to the Former Hippodrome Theatre. Kirsty Green Reports.

That will be essential if the trust is ever going to get the grants and funds it will need to buy and renovate the building.

Martin Pratt is a director of PHT Consultants, of Staunton Harold. Its staff are experts in heritage tourism and are working with Lathams architects in Derby on the appraisal.

Mr Pratt said: "This work will be a reality check ...

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