There will be a public meeting for volunteers and anyone interested in the project, on Wednesday 22nd May at the Art Bank, High Street, Shepton Mallet. The bar will be open at 6:30pm and the meeting will start at 7pm.
The main purpose will be to discuss progress to date, with opportunities to ask questions.
Coxley Developments Limited, the owner of the Amulet theatre building in Shepton Mallet, has submitted an appeal to overturn an earlier planning refusal for conversion of the Amulet’s stage and dressing rooms into flats. We intend to oppose this planning appeal because it would mean the permanent loss of Shepton Mallet’s only large scale performance…
We are excited to announce that a series of pop-up events will take place on the ground floor of the Amulet this Spring and Summer. These will allow local people to visit the space to learn more about our project and to demonstrate the potential of the building. Activities will start with an Open Day…
Thank you to everyone who came to visit our first pop-up open day today. Hundreds of visitors streamed in from the busy Sunday Market and were able to explore the ground floor and learn about the history and our future plans for reopening the whole building. We have been allowed use of the ground floor…
Our summer of pop-up events on the ground floor of the Amulet was a huge success but has now come to an end. This activity has however led to two exciting opportunities for us to work with other local organisations. See below for details of a professional dance performance with workshop and residency plus an…
A planning application for seven flats in the Amulet has been turned down at appeal. The application was originally submitted in 2020 and was refused by Somerset Council last year, with an appeal against that decision being dismissed by the national planning inspector this week. The flats were to be located in the Amulet’s main…
There was be a public meeting for volunteers and anyone interested in the project, on Thursday 22nd February 7pm at the Art Bank, High Street, Shepton Mallet. The main purpose was to discuss how the ideas received so far could be combined into a new vision for the building. Ideas have been taken from the…