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Church submits planning application for Crystal Palace 'cinema' site
5:20pm Thursday 20th August 2009
A church hoping to open on a site where thousands of Crystal Palace residents want to see a cinema has submitted its planning application to Bromley Council.
The Kingsway International Christian Centre (KICC) - which bought the former Gala Bingo Hall in Church Road in June - this week submitted the application to change the current community usage of the site for use as a place of worship.
KICC has promised to screen independent films for free each week at the church in an effort to appease thousands of residents who have joined a campaign to see the bingo hall - that used to house a silver screen- turned into an independent cinema.
Pastor Dipo Oluyomi, from KICC, said the church was “sympathetic to people’s views and worked hard to accomodate concerns over the loss of the bingo hall and the opportunity for a centre for independent films.”
The church said it has drawn up detailed plans of how it hopes to use the building as a centre from which the whole community can benefit.
As well as providing a place of worship, the church said KICC had particular expertise and experience of working with young people.
It aims to run weekday youth meetings and a children’s club.
Its plans also include a cafe and bookshop, and the administrative centre for its south London branch in the building, which would employ eight people.
The plans will soon be available to view, and comment on, in the planning pages of Bromley Council’s website.
The application is expected to go in front of the council’s planning committee in the next few months.
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Moominmouse, Crystal Palace says...
8:22pm Thu 20 Aug 09
What has this got to do with the price of carrots I hear you ask? Well, nothing normally, except the fact that the very organisation that states it has 'drawn up detailed plans of how it hopes to use the building as a centre from which the whole community can benefit' does not see me as equal in the eyes of the law to someone who is heterosexual. In fact, they have endorsed the view that the Government’s only evidence for a problem of homophobia actually existing is “accounts in national newspapers”.
How do I know this? Check out http://www.evangelic
als.org/news.asp?id=
466. An open letter the the Government back in 2006, petitioning them on Sexual Orientation Regulations. The petition is signed by representatives oif KICC.
So I won't be expecting a free screening of Brokeback Mountain then? Plus, if I am a young gay person suffering from homophobic abuse, then I will be advised in youth meetings that the only evidence for it is in the press, not my first hand experience?
Hmmmmmm