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Wakefield Council’s cabinet voted last July to pull down all buildings on the site except the distinctive canopy from the scheme completed in 2008.

Sovereign Land, the owners of the town’s Trinity Walk shopping centre, won planning permission for a Leslie Jones Architecture-designed cinema and restaurant scheme in December 2017.

But the developer has struggled to progress with the project and, with fresh plans emerging for another cinema in the city, the council has now decided to reverse its decision to sell the site.

Instead, the building will be now be used to house a new creativity and innovation hub for the Wakefield Creative Industries Growth Platform, to be known as WX3.

‘A recent appraisal of potential sites to host a city centre creativity and innovation hub has identified the opportunity to repurpose the main market hall building, offering a cost-effective and exciting way to deliver a key function of the W