FIRST LOOK inside Doncaster's new £8.5m Savoy Cinema which is due to open next month

The £8.5 million Savoy Cinema in Sir Nigel Gresley Square - the company’s sixth in the UK - is expected to be ready by mid-September.

The new attraction will include luxury recliner and rocker seating in all six screens with the latest in technology which includes premium Vertex viewing, next-generation 4K laser projection and Dolby Atmos immersive sound.

Ros Jones, Mayor of Doncaster, said: “The new Savoy cinema complex is looking fantastic and will be another great attraction in our blossoming Civic and Cultural Quarter.

“It will frame Sir Nigel Gresley Square and complement Cast performance venue, the civic office and the new homes that have already gone up. We also have Danum Gallery, Library and Museum and Doncaster University Technology College being built in this quarter with further plans in the pipeline for the Waterdale area.

“When you consider all the other schemes we are delivering in the town centre as part of our ambitious Urban Centre Masterplan, it’s clear to see how we are driving Doncaster forward at pace and helping to transform the whole borough for residents and communities.”

As well as the latest Hollywood releases, the line-up will include live streaming of theatre and concerts, directly from landmark venues including The Royal Opera House.

The cinema will be accessible to all, with regular subtitled screenings, parent and baby screenings, a kids club and the immensely popular silver screen, dedicated to cinema guests over 50.

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, Doncaster Council bosses say there ‘continues to be strong interest from local and national operators’ in the five restaurant units which are joined on to the leisure attraction.

The project has benefitted from £635,000 of the Sheffield City Region Local Growth Funding (LGF) and once complete, it will create more than 100 jobs and bring new business rate income into the borough.

Executive board director Edward Chambers, from construction firm Lindum, said: "Whilst progress has been unavoidably impacted by the Covid-19 outbreak, the team have done very well progressing works safely with full compliance with all Covid guidance to get the job finished.”

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