Newest Savoy Cinema complex taking shape in Gainsborough

Construction work on a new cinema in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire is well underway this summer reports Eddisons incorporating Banks Long & Co who are project managing the scheme on behalf of client, Savoy Cinemas Ltd.

Scheduled to open next summer (2025), the four-screen cinema complex and attendant leisure and retail development are the anchor properties at the heart of the multi-million pound initiative by West Lindsey District Council to regenerate Gainsborough’s historic town centre.

Gainsborough is the third Lincolnshire location – the others are in Grantham & Boston – for Savoy Cinemas Ltd, a growing regional chain whose other locations include two in Nottinghamshire, one in Northamptonshire and another in South Yorkshire.

Eddisons incorporating Banks Long & Co was appointed last year as the project manager and quantity surveyor by the cinema chain, and work on the new cinema building follows the demolition of old buildings and the clearing of the site.

The firm has worked on a number of cinema, leisure and retail projects before, most recently in Lincoln as part of the ongoing Cornhill regeneration project.

Situated in Gainsborough’s historic Market Square, construction of the new cinema is not without its challenges.

Daniel Garfoot, Director, Eddisons incorporating Banks Long & Co, who is heading the project management team, explains, “The site is in the town’s conservation area and has rightly been of archaeological interest given the site’s previous uses down the century.

“We are also mindful of the Listed status of neighbouring buildings, as well as the operational requirements of their current traders and occupiers. But it’s our job to steer the project through to deliver the new cinema building in a way that reconciles local sensitivities with our client’s commercial imperative.

“That’s something all parties are on track to achieve.”

James Collington, Managing Director, Savoy Cinemas Ltd, added, “We’re glad to be adding Gainsborough as the newest location to our growing portfolio of cinemas across this part of the country.  The fact that our new complex gives new life to a derelict site and is at the heart of the revival of the town centre gives the project extra significance for all involved.”