OnTheWight has been in touch with the owner of the former Rivoli Cinema and the person who ran the fundraising campaign to try and convert it back to a cinema for Sandown. Unsurprisingly there's not a lot of shared ground.
The council say their first priority is the safety of families using the park and ensuring the appropriate European standard for play equipment is met.
A crown court judge has ruled that the former owners of the derelict Ocean Hotel in Sandown, the Phoenix Commercial Property Development (PCPD), must fight their case on the Isle of Wight rather than in Durham