Petition set up in bid to save old Odeon in Colchester

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A CAMPAIGNER has set up a petition calling for Colchester’s beloved old Odeon cinema to be brought “back from the brink”.

Denis Harvey has already gathered more than 150 signatures for his petition, which calls for Colchester Council to bring the cherished Crouch Street building back into public use.

The building is dilapidated and long-mooted £10 million plans to turn the art deco premises, designed by cinema and theatre expert Cecil Massey, into 57 apartments have stalled due to financial woes.

 

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