Surrey Quays cinema to close next month as new homes and shops on the way
An Odeon cinema is set to close next month as work proceed on redevelopment.
The site also comprises Hollywood Bowl and Pizza Hut near Surrey Quays shopping centre, with doors closing across the entire site on 18th September.
Approved plans see a new Tesco Extra supermarket and 384 new homes on site. Odeon’s nine screen cinema is very much a utilitarian box befitting an out-of-town site rather than inner London.
Though of course it’s a well-loved local attraction and the loss will be felt by many.
Back in 2021 I looked at outline plans for the site. Detailed plans were approved in 2023 which also cover a part of the former Printwork’s car park.
Upon completion the existing Tesco will close as the shopping centre is redeveloped.
The supermarket currently occupies a large part of the site.
A tower by one of the best architectural practices behind residential blocks currently working in London – Maccreanor Lavington – are behind certain buildings on the upcoming plot.
And it’s not just a dull box with clip-on balconies!
In time a large car park for the 1980s centre, which was built in a very different post-industrial London when the city’s population was declining, will be built upon.
Wider project
Plots A1 and A2 close to Canada Water bus, London Overground and Jubilee line services are nearing completion with a substantial tower on site near Canada Water bus station.
It’s part of British Land’s wider changes across the town with the 1980s shopping centre also due to be demolished.
Bus station revamp work recently completed and building work is now underway at Surrey Quays station.
This will see a second entrance to the station.
Work can be seen below on the northern side of the road opposite the main station building.
Community Infrastructure Levy payments to Southwark council will total more than £90 million.
This is a disgrace the only thing for kids and family to do around area was cinema Hollywood bowl now you would knock down for Tesco and more flats housing in a over populated area shame on all of gues next year crime will raise and get worser
Is it proposed to be relocated elsewhere before or after the sire development?
Very sad to see it close, I remember when it opened and was the first cinema I went to as a child. Although it had gone down hill in the last decade. I will catch one final movie before it closes for good.