Ex-Empire Cinema

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Empire Cinema
Photo: ©Kevin R Boyd

The former Empire Cinema site remains cleared except for the facade with its supporting scaffolding and an unsightly pile of rubble at the rear. Empire Cinemas have recently submitted a planning application to enable them to reduce the amount of area devoted to cinema screens and increase that for restaurants and a wine bar from around 10% to over 40%. The number of screens would remain the same (16) but the capacity of some will be sharply reduced (e.g. the smallest would now hold only 56 patrons). We have objected to the loss of circulation and community space that these changes would involve and to the proposed increase in the number of restaurants etc given that Ealing is already over-provided with such outlets.