Plans for the second phase of a major restoration project of Oldham’s former library and gallery which will open it back up to residents have been lodged.
The Grade-Two listed Old Library on Union Street in the town centre is to be refurbished into a home for the Oldham Theatre Workshop. It will also contain a new council chamber and function facilities, a gallery and ‘flexible spaces’ linked to Gallery Oldham.
Proposals for the iconic building, which was built in 1883, are part of a long-running ambition by the town hall – first unveiled in 1996 – to create a ‘cultural quarter’ in the town centre.
