Time is running out to put forward plans about managing a historic arts and entertainment venue in Gloucestershire amid uncertainty about its future.

The closing date for submitting 'expressions of interest' in Stroud Subscription Rooms, built in 1833 by public subscription, is Wednesday, 12 April.

Stroud District Council announced last year that it had to reduce the £400,000 annual costs associated with running the Sub Rooms (pictured) in order to meet financial pressures.

Cllr Doina Cornell, vice-chair of the council's strategy and resources committee and chair of the group tasked with assessing the options for the Sub Rooms, said: "The three options we are looking at are: keeping the building under council control; allowing another organisation to run the Sub Rooms as a public arts and cultural facility; or to sell it on the open market.

"We have already had a number of interested parties contact us, but with only three weeks to go we'd like anyone else who thinks they may have viable plans for its future to get in touch."

Anyone interested in putting forward their plans should email subrooms.review@stroud.gov.uk or visit the stroud.gov.uk/subroomsreview on Stroud District Council's website.

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