Bosses have green-lit plans to build a £24.5m new theatre in Oldham despite admitting they don’t know whether the Coliseum will survive to run it when it is due to open in three years time.
At a cabinet meeting on Monday (February 27), councillors agreed to ‘recommit’ to the development of a new theatre in the borough, which would replace the historic Fairbottom Street venue. Councillors also formally accepted £1.84m of Arts Council England funding to provide cultural activity for the next three years.
It comes as the Coliseum Theatre says it will close permanently at the end of March after being dropped from the Arts Council funding portfolio, after the body deemed it ‘high risk’.
