WE want to know what you think about plans to bulldoze Dudley Hippodrome and replace it with what the council describe as a “bright, sweeping open public space”.

The authority has instead put forward plans to demolish the dilapidated former theatre and bingo hall on Castle Hill to make way for a new multifunctional area of open space, which council bosses say would open up views of Dudley’s medieval castle.

Friends of the Hippodrome campaigners said pulling down the iconic building would be a "destruction of our heritage” but Councillor Khurshid Ahmed, cabinet member for planning and economic development, has defended the idea, saying the council had “fully explored every suggested alternative use submitted so far”.

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