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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
You can still take part:
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
At 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.
Stayin Alive Crowdfunder - £350,000 in pledges - in less than 3 weeks.
Stayin Alive Campaign Video from Simon Borkin on Vimeo.