Tapas restaurant on menu for Town Hall? (From Gazette)
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Tapas restaurant on menu for Town Hall?
6:00pm Tuesday 12th March 2013 in News
DINERS could eat out in prison cells under ambitious new plans.
Proposals to transform Colchester’s former magistrates’ court, in High Street, into restaurants have been revealed.
Under the blueprint the Old Library would become a fine dining restaurant and the court a tapas bar.
The lounge would be turned into a coffee shop while themed dining would take over the cells.
A licence application detailing the plans has been submitted to Colchester Council.
If they are given the go ahead the restaurants would be open from 7.30am until 2.30am at weekends.
The courts have been out of use since March 2012 when all hearings were moved to the new magistrates’ court at St Botolph’s.
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super waluigi
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8:22pm Tue 12 Mar 13
Boris
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10:01am Wed 13 Mar 13
Jess Jephcott
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11:24am Wed 13 Mar 13
wearebeingwatched
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2:49pm Wed 13 Mar 13
Jess Jephcott wrote:The courts are not run by CBC so a bit hard to bash them for moving the court,mind you seems to be the in thing CBC bashing.
The irritating thing about all this is that CBC have vacated this fine old building and generated a new cost to the taxpayer at two other sites at least, before selling this one, thus creating a trebled overhead, of rent, rates, heating, maintenance, etc. This is wrong!
It's such a shame all these people that bash the council (rightly or wrongly) do not stand for election, imagine the council we could have then.
SOMETHING2SAY says...
8:03pm Tue 12 Mar 13