An update in the Gazette November 5th as follows:A spokesman for Empire Cinemas, said: "We can appreciate concerns over the seeming lack of progress with the rebuilding of the new Empire cinema at Ealing, but we are still committed to the site and development is in progress."Behind the scenes we are working very hard on making it happen. Since the initial scheme was proposed, cinema has evolved, particularly the use of digital projection and this allows us to utilise the space that a projection room would previously have taken up, and as such, we are redesigning the internal layout of the auditoriums to accommodate this."We have also been waiting on a number of conditions on the planning permissions to be satisfied, which have now been resolved."A team is preparing to conduct an architectural survey before work restarts and the projected completion date is set for summer 2011.
Robert Darke ● 6143d