 Four months later, Live Nation announced its intention to seek planning permission to convert the building into "one of the city’s main live music venues", at an estimated cost of £9 million.By this time the company had spent at least £100,000 on structural and other surveys.Nothing came of these plans, though, and in February 2013 another group—Alaska Development Consultants—unveiled an £18 million plan to turn the Hippodrome into an eight-screen cinema.