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Member meeting: Chorlton and District Co-ops regular members meeting

Saturday 25 January 2020 10.30 - 11.30 Co-op Rooms above Hardy Lane Co-op store.

Stayin Alive!

Chorlton Picture House: Stayin' Alive campaign makes credible offer to buy site

  • Co-op agrees to consider 'impressive' community-led bid
  • Over £360,000 already pledged in rapid crowd-fund
  • Decision now in hands of Co-op board

Stayin Alive!You can still take part:

SIGN OUR PETITION

PLEDGE NOW

 


Following a spectacular sprint to raise funds, a community-led bid to buy the Co-op Funeralcare site in central Chorlton is being taken seriously.

The crowd funding campaign launched by Chorlton Community Land Trust (CLT) broke through its £250,000 target in less than 2 weeks. Armed with this support the CLT and its developer partner was able to meet the Co-op's 8 November deadline to table an offer to buy the site of the former picture house - where the Bee Gees first performed.

They received our proposal with a great deal of interest and were amazed by the success of the campaign and the level of public interest.

-  Chorlton CLT

The 11th hour bid may save the site from demolition as the Co-op weighs up two competing bids:

  • Stayin' Alive bid: keep the picture house as a tribute to the Bee Gees; save the space for community use for events, pop-up stalls and a vibrant market; build a new surgery for Chorlton Family Practice; create space for co-working; pedestrianise Nicolas Road.
  • Developer bid: knock it all down and build expensive flats.

Co-op members back bid

Site planAt our meeting on 23 November, the members of Chorlton and District Co-ops voted again, unanimously to back the community bid.

We urge the Co-op board to accept the community bid - a realistic commercial offer - and reject the alternative inappropriate property speculation.

SIGN OUR PETITION

 


Stayin Alive Crowdfunder - £350,000 in pledges - in less than 3 weeks.

Stayin Alive Campaign Video from Simon Borkin on Vimeo.

 

 

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