 Intu Properties purchased the adjoining Charter Place shopping centre from Watford Borough Council in April 2013.Planning permission was granted in 2014 for Charter Place to be demolished, to make way for a new mixed-use scheme which comprises 16 retail units, a new department store, 11 restaurants and a 9 screen Cineworld cinema, one of which is a high definition IMAX.Which will be integrate into the main Intu Watford centre Demolition work began in November 2015.