Bid for public art at historic Crawley site

Boards with images of the town’s first picture house could be installed where it stood near the level crossing in 5 to 7 Brighton Road.

PMC Construction & Development Services Ltd made the proposals in an amendment to a previous application for a landscaping scheme in the Brighton Road Conservation area.

The Imperial Picture House, which was built in 1909, reopened as the Imperial Cinema after it suffered massive damage during a fire in 1928.

The building which housed it was a Peugeot garage before Crawley Borough Council approved a bid to partly knock it down and turn it into homes in 2009.

The facade of the old cinema was retained.

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