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Former NCPM Planning Application

bill bonze | 06.08.2003 14:50 | Culture | Sheffield

Sheffield Hallam University has submitted an application to change the former NCPM building into a multi-purpose entertainment venue for its students.

From  http://www.ciq.org.uk/ciq_update/ciq1.html

FORMER NATIONAL CENTRE FOR POPULAR MUSIC

Planning application Reference 03/02664/CHU.

Sheffield Hallam University has formally submitted a change of use application to use the former NCPM building as a Student Union incorporating entertainment venue, bar, cafe, shop and offices.

Details about the planning application can be accessed via the CIQ Agency or direct from The Planning Department, Howden House, 1 Union St, Sheffield S1

The CIQ Agency, as a statutory consultee on all planning applications received in the Cultural Industries Quarter, will be commenting on these applications at its next Development and Investment Advisory group scheduled for early September. If you have any comments please email them to  richard.motley@ciq.org.uk

bill bonze

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Not surprising

07.08.2003 10:47

Well, its not surprising really. That's kind of what the building was designed for. It could make an excellent club except apparently the floors aren't strong enough to support large numbers of people. Doh!

steve

Some thoughts...

11.08.2003 18:24

The building won't make a great student union; it's got very few rooms and offices. But there's also the point that it was intended as a public building (albeit one you had to pay to enter), and as a student union, it won't be that.

Hallam Union is being effectively given it by Hallam University so that they can redevelop the present union site, apparently for the art department currently at Psalter Lane.

Tokyo

Students need to get in there form the start

14.09.2003 13:31

pleased to hear that finally thre's a plausible destiny for NCPM. When we designed it, it corresponded t the brief set by the designers, but secretly I always wanted it to be used or something else. the ideal function has finally risen to the top. Success depends on two things - tuning in to the origial spirit of the building, and linkng the world of student life with the citezens at large.

Nigel Coates
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