{"id":9378,"date":"2025-12-01T08:47:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T08:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=9378"},"modified":"2025-12-01T08:47:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T08:47:03","slug":"stage-set-for-andover-24m-new-theatre-bid-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/stage-set-for-andover-24m-new-theatre-bid-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Stage set for Andover \u00a324m new theatre bid race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Test Valley Borough Council has raised the curtain on a \u00a324m two-stage tender to build Andover\u2019s new flagship theatre.<\/p>\n

The council is hunting a contractor to deliver pre-construction services and a 77-week main works package that will form the centrepiece of its town-centre masterplan.<\/p>\n

The project replaces the old Poundstretcher unit on the High Street, now being demolished to create a clear site for the venue, which will become the new home for The Lights.<\/p>\n

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Five contractors are expected to be invited to submit full tenders with an award due around May next year.<\/p>\n

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Designed by theatre specialist Burrell Foley Fischer, the three-storey venue will house a 400-seat auditorium, a second flexible performance space, dance studios, meeting rooms and caf\u00e9\/bar areas. Careful acoustic separation will allow the theatre to host multiple events at once, pushing total occupancy close to 1,000.<\/p>\n

The stone-arched fa\u00e7ade is inspired by St Mary\u2019s Church and the Guildhall, forming a new public square linking the High Street to Town Mills Riverside Park.
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The \u00a325m programme \u2014 including \u00a3600k of professional services and \u00a324.4m of construction \u2014 is backed by \u00a318.3m of government funding.<\/p>\n

Leader Phil North said the new theatre would act as a catalyst for economic growth and help draw more people into the town centre day and night.<\/p>\n

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from Construction Enquirer https:\/\/ift.tt\/yWqlPsA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Test Valley Borough Council has raised the curtain on a \u00a324m two-stage tender to build Andover\u2019s new flagship theatre. The council is hunting a contractor to deliver pre-construction services and a 77-week main works package that will form the centrepiece of its town-centre masterplan. The project replaces the old Poundstretcher unit on the High Street, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-9378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9379,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9378\/revisions\/9379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}