Future of the Old School Site

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Hello - The old School site is owned by the Nottingham City Council and for some years it has been used as a location for arts organisations with some of the rooms being made available for for hire for meetings and events. That business has ceased to exist but the Nottingham Playhouse uses the Assembly Hall in the Ropewalk building for rehersals and it recently approached the Council to buy the building.  Nottingham City Council as you may know are selling some of the buildings they "own"  because of its financial problems which is rerported as being a £26million hole in its finances.  The Council want to sell the site as a whole and the Playhouse Directors only want to buy the Ropewalk Building.  The building is not listed but it is on a local list created by the Civic Society which identifies those buildings of heritage value to Nottingham which are not currently given national protection through Historic England listing. The PCOBS Committee was encouraged by Mich Stevenson to write to the Playhouse and offer our support and we will let you know more about this when we have a reply. Without Historic England Listing protection the building could demolished and the site redeveloped.