Cross-community dance group wants toy shop studio conversion

A LONDONDERRY cross-community dance association hopes to convert a former toy shop in the Waterside into a dance studio.
By Kevin Mullan
Published 23rd Sep 2013, 20:09 BST
Members of the Fountain Dance Association receiving a £30,000 Big Lottery Fund a few years ago. Picture were members of the association with back row (from left), Wendy MacBean, dance coach, Isobel McNally, former principal, Fountain PS, William Houston and Tommy McCallion. The group wants to convert a Londonderry toy shop into a dance studio.Members of the Fountain Dance Association receiving a £30,000 Big Lottery Fund a few years ago. Picture were members of the association with back row (from left), Wendy MacBean, dance coach, Isobel McNally, former principal, Fountain PS, William Houston and Tommy McCallion. The group wants to convert a Londonderry toy shop into a dance studio.
Members of the Fountain Dance Association receiving a £30,000 Big Lottery Fund a few years ago. Picture were members of the association with back row (from left), Wendy MacBean, dance coach, Isobel McNally, former principal, Fountain PS, William Houston and Tommy McCallion. The group wants to convert a Londonderry toy shop into a dance studio.

The Fountain Dance Association, which was established to encourage young people from every side of the Londonderry community into dance, wants to build the studio of the ground floor or Toy Town on Spencer Road.

Planners have received an application from the group to build a “dance/fitness studio” with “associated kitchen and toilet facilities.”