Plans have been approved by Wakefield Council cabinet to demolish David Adjaye-designed Wakefield Market Hall in West Yorkshire, according to a latest report by Wakefield Express. 

The demolition of the project was first announced by Wakefield Council’s cabinet in 2014 but the project retained its uncertainty for 4 years.The Wakefield Council has now announced that the project will be torn down and its only roof structure will be remained at site.

The Wakefield Market Hall will be replaced with a new nine-screen cinema with restaurant and cafe units, which has already been granted a planning approval for the new development. 

Leslie Jones Architecture's proposal for the site was approved in 2017 to design a new nine-screen cinema with restaurant and cafe units. According to the reports, most of traders have already moved out of the market hall, and many of them relocated to other markets or units. 

David Adjaye's Wakefield Market Hall was built in 2008, the 6,300-square-metre building is the first public building of David Adjaye. The £3m building was a part of the regeneration of the Trinity Walk and Marsh Way area, very close to the city centre. 

According to the reports in 2014, the Council allocated a £100,000 relocation package to help market traders to move to a new outdoor market in the city centre. 

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