AN operator still hasn’t been secured for the council’s blockbuster plan for a multiplex cinema in the town centre.
In April the council’s head of economic regeneration, David Shepherd, said it was ‘negotiating with leading cinema operators’ and was looking to have one on board by the summer.
But that announcement never came and this week Mr Shepherd told the Chronicle it still working to secure a ‘preferred operator’ for the development.
Read more in this weeks Barnsley Chronicle
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