Oldham Council has approved plans by Dutch practice Mecanoo for a new £27 million home for Oldham Coliseum Theatre
The theatre, to be built on the existing Southgate Street car park, will include a 550-seat auditorium and a 170-seat studio theatre, a café and an outdoor terrace.
Backed by a £7.1m National Lottery-funded capital grant from Arts Council England, the scheme will sit next to the Grade II-listed former Oldham Library and Art Gallery building, which is being transformed into a heritage centre.
Mecanoo revised its plans to include the studio theatre following feedback on its initial designs, which were submitted for planning in 2014.
Oldham Coliseum by Mecanoo
Source: Mecanoo
Mecanoo’s original 2014 scheme
The practice won the job in November 2013, seeing off competition from Austin-Smith:Lord, Bennetts Associates, Haworth Tompkins, John McAslan & Partners, Levitt Bernstein and Purcell Miller Tritton.
The project forms part of wider plans to transform Oldham town centre to provide a cultural quarter.
Work is expected to start on site in early 2018, with completion scheduled for 2020.
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