BACKGROUND TO THE NEWS Dateline: October 20th 2009 ONE THOUSAND ATTEND CINEMA CAMPAIGN MEETING Dateline: December 18th 2009 CHURCH PLANS REJECTED IN KNIFE-EDGE VOTE Dateline: April 21st 2010: “OH LORD WON’T YOU BUY ME A MERCEDES BENZ…” Dateline: February 5th 20

A BROMLEY councillor is calling for action over a planned Watchnight service being staged by a Pentecostal church on New Year’s Eve in the former cinema building at 25 Church Road.   In strongly-worded emails to senior Bromley council officers Cllr Tom Papworth says there is a &

CAMPAIGNERS FIGHTING for a cinema in Crystal Palace have nominated the former cinema at 25 Church Road as an asset of community value. Bromley council are being asked to list the one-time Rialto under the provisions of the Community Right to Bid set out in the Localism Act. The move &

THE FOURTH Crystal Palace international film festival has kicked off with a sell-out launch night. Film fans tucked into curry in St John’s church, Auckland Road courtesy of the Yak and Yeti Nepalese restaurant on Church Road. “We’ve had several  emails and comments

A BROMLEY council planning committee is being recommended to take ‘no action’ on the use of the former cinema building at 25 Church Road tonight (Thursday) – even though an officers report ADMITS that two of the events held there were unlawful. The former cinema was

THE PENTECOSTAL church which took over the former cinema building at 25 Church Road, Crystal Palace have told Bromley council they are going to apply for a mixed D1 / D2 use of the premises, say the Picture Palace Campaign.   The Campaign, set up in 2009 to bring a cinema back to Crys

A BROMLEY COUNCIL planner has outlined the reasons for their lack of enforcement action over a Pentecostal church’s use of the former cinema building at 25 Church Road, Upper Norwood.   In email exchanges the planning officer has told Cllr Tom Papworth (Lib Dem Crystal Palace wa

A BROMLEY council enforcement officer was among those who attended the latest event organised by Kingsway International Christian Centre at 25 Church Road on Saturday February 23rd.   The event had attracted criticism from various local groups including the Picture Palace Campaign 

THE PENTECOSTAL church which acquired the former cinema at 25 Church Road, Crystal Palace have successfully appealed against an enforcement notice issued by Bromley council over four illuminated poster holders on the building’s front wall.   THE HEARING   The informal hearing at