Plans for new apartments to be built on the site of a historic cinema have been withdrawn. The site of the Majestic Cinema on Woodborough Road, Mapperley was subject to a plan for a three-block seven-apartment complex to surround the Grade II listed building.
The proposed plans had stressed the cinema would remain, but the planning application has now been withdrawn by applicant RAAM Properties Ltd. The withdrawn proposal followed initial plans by developers to demolish the building entirely and replace it with 26 apartments in 2019, prompting a campaign by local residents which resulted in Nottingham City Council adding the former cinema to their list of Buildings of Historic Interest and it being Grade II listed in 2020.
The Majestic Cinema opened on June 10, 1929 and was designed by Alfred John Thraves, who was based in Nottingham and was one of the country’s most prolific cinema architects, with nearly 30 projects to his name built between 1924 and 1939. Originally owned by the Severn family, the Majestic Cinema closed its doors in 1957.
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In 2018 it became The Haunted Museum and Oddities in 2018, when it started showing films again. After being temporarily closed due to the pandemic in 2020, the Haunted Museum and Oddities attraction permanently moved to a different address in 2021.
On the now withdrawn planning application, MHA Architects on behalf of RAAM Properties Ltd, said: “The significance of this building as a piece of our heritage has been considered throughout the design phase. The proposed new buildings will not compromise its image nor its integrity. In fact, the investment will be of significant benefit to the area in general and the listed building consequence. We believe the requalification of this brownfield site, which has been vacant for a few years and is in a dilapidated state, will overall contribute to the conservation of the heritage asset for the foreseeable future.”
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