New store and cinema
Multi-million pound investments in leisure and retail are set to be unveiled in Horsham with the opening of the Everyman cinema and the new Next store.
Multi-million pound investments in leisure and retail are set to be unveiled in Horsham.
Major fashion firm Next is gearing up to open its new store in the Swan Walk shopping centre.
The company is to open its doors on the site of the former BHS store in the shopping centre on March 20.
Signs have gone up at Next’s current shop in West Street announcing the move.
The new Swan Walk store will be bigger than the current premises and will stock women’s, men’s and children’s clothing as well as homeware. It will also house a Costa coffee shop.
Swan Walk has seen a major refurbishment of its facilities with new toilets opened recently at the shopping centre.
Meanwhile, workmen are putting the final touches to a new cinema which is set to open shortly in Horsham.
The three-screen Everyman Cinema is being built as part of the £35 million redevelopment of Piries Place which will also include a new Premier Inn, shops and restaurants. In a social media post on Friday (March 8) Everyman announced: “Three weeks to go!”
And the company said that details of the first screenings would soon be revealed. It has already announced that live screenings this spring and summer will include All About Eve, Take That Greatest Hits Live, and The Merry Wives of Windsor.
The cinema chain is currently recruiting staff including bartenders, ‘hosts’ and ushers.
Among new restaurants opening nearby are a Miller and Carter Steakhouse and gastro pub chain the Brasserie White Company. Starbucks are also returning to the town with an outlet in Piries Place.
Developers Reef Estates say Piries Place is being ‘tranformed into an important day and night venue’.
A few miles south of Horsham, Leonardslee Lakes and Gardens at Lower Beeding will be fully open to the public on April 6, the owners have announced. The much-anticipated reopening follows a huge project to restore the gardens to their former glory.
First planted in 1801, the gardens on the 240 acre estate ‘feature an outstanding scenery throughout the year and particularly majestic as it blooms in spring or takes on the glorious colours of autumn’.