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Dr Victoria Snaith.

They all hail from London but Ian and Adam have now moved to Huddersfield.

It is the team’s first major venture but Ian says the building is just what they were looking for – the walls are 3ft thick which make it ideal for both the acoustics and soundproofing.

It is also on the doorstep of 30,000 University of Huddersfield students.

Ian said: “I understand that a lot of people from Huddersfield go to Leeds and Manchester for big nights out. Our aim is to make the Colosseum a destination spot to bring people here.”

He revealed it will follow a Roman theme with an eye-catching mosaic just inside the entrance Artist’s impressions of the rooftop terrace for the proposed Colosseum nightclub and bars in the former cinema on Queensgate in Huddersfield and will be opened in stages.

The aim is that a high technology juice bar, a coffee bar and an ice-cream bar will open this autumn followed next year by an upstairs bar and then the downstairs bar and nightclub.

The club will be high enough to feature acrobats.

The final work will be the roof terrace.

“This will be a marathon rather than a sprint,” said Ian.

The company has been in discussions with Kirklees planners and now architects are drawing up detailed plans for a full planning application.

Ian did not want to reveal how much money will be invested but described it as “significant.”

The site is now 11,000 sq ft but another 6,000sq ft floor will be added along with the rooftop terrace which will be 6,500sq ft.

JD Wetherspoon reckons it will be opening the biggest pub in the UK next month, the 10,500sq ft pub in Ramsgate, Kent, transforming the Grade II listed Royal Victoria Pavilion which has been derelict since 2008. That is a £4m investment creating 150 jobs.