IT COULD be exit stage left for a number of businesses and organisations on Peel Street with plans to demolish a prominent council-owned facility.
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With planning and consultation under-way for the proposed performing arts facility on the main street, a council report has revealed Parry House could be demolished to make way for the cultural centre.
The building, which currently houses the ABC, NIAS and disability services and a sexual health clinic, among others, was suggested as a site in council’s solar power overhaul.
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However, it was withdrawn “because of the proposed performing art complex plans, which may include demolition of this building”.
Chair of the Tamworth Regional Arts and Cultural Advisory Committee Glenn Inglis said there was a grand vision for the precinct which could join up to the current library and art gallery while adding tiered car parking and potential commercial spaces.
Cr Inglis said there was still a lot of work to be done but there was hope construction could commence by the second-half of 2019.
While the “cultural precinct” could come at the expense of Parry House, Cr Inglis said the project would produce a community asset on par with TRECC or AELEC and hopefully service the whole region for the next 30 to 40 years.
It’s hoped the doors of the new facility would be open by 2023, with council’s lease on the Capitol Theatre set to expire in 2022.
Cr Inglis said the cultural program in Tamworth had boomed in the last decade since the Capitol arrangement had been in place.