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Flats plan for former Rialto cinema site in Lochee approved

Artists impressions of the housing development for the site of the former cinema, demolished last year.
Artists impressions of the housing development for the site of the former cinema, demolished last year.

A housing development that is to replace a former city cinema has been granted planning permission.

The old Rialto cinema in Lochee was demolished at the end of last year to make way for a development of 12 flats.

Plans have now been approved by Dundee City Council to construct flats on the site.

Images of the development, which show views looking east and north-west along Lochee Road, were revealed by architects Hiddleston & Feist.

Council case officer Beverley Knox said: “The design of the flats is of modern appearance and has taken reference from the art deco style of the former cinema on site.

“The building would be three storeys high, finished in a mixture of materials, including a white and terracotta stucco, glazed brickwork and timber windows.”

Ian Hiddleston, architect for the project, said preparations were now under way for the start of construction on the flats.

The cinema opened in 1928 with a seating capacity of 1,104, the atmospheric interior design was described as “decorated in the manner of a Chinese Garden”.

The Cinema Theatre Association note that the cinema closed in 1962, and was subsequently used as a bingo hall.

The building, on Gray’s Lane, opened in 1928 and was the first cinema in the city to show “talkies”.

The property was given B-listed status in 1993 but later lost many of its original features in a fire in 2007, after which Historic Scotland de-listed it.

After lying vacant for years, bulldozers moved in three months ago to raze it to the ground.