A CINEMA operator has expressed an interest in running a venue with up to three screens in Farnham.
Tony Bloom, of Mainline Cinema, which has three-screen cinemas in Winchester, Weybridge and two in London, has written to Waverley Council "continually" since the inception of the East Street regeneration project.
His interest has been passed on to all eight would-be developers on a Waverley shortlist.
Miller Stevenson, Waverley's property and development manager, told The Herald: "He knows Farnham and has continually expressed an interest in opening up to a three-screen cinema over the last four or five years."
Asked where a cinema could be located, Mr Stevenson said: "There's six acres that could house a cinema. The developers will have to make their own judgement."
The cinema operator's interest will be good news for Farnham's teenagers, who put cinema at the top of a wish list for what should be included in the redevelopment of East Street.
Four years ago, a small group of business people proposed the disused Redgrave Theatre building as a suitable cinema site and attracted the interest of two operators who said the building could be converted into a two or three-screen cinema for £1.5 million.
But the operators did not take their interest further, saying they felt a cinema at the Redgrave would need some public money to make it viable.