A rash new projects in the UK include a fresh location being found for the Lincoln bar-arcade Lane 7.
The popular venue could move to an abandoned building in the High Street. A planning application has been lodged for the site, part of a chain that offers bowling, table games and arcade machines. The former Boots store has been empty for five years.
In London, Westminster Council has approved that a bar-arcade on Oxford Street can extend opening hours to 2am. BBB Thirteen had applied to vary its licence for the Boom Battle Bar so that it could stay open longer on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.
On other nights it will continue to close at 11.30pm. Boom Battle operates shuffleboard, pool, karaoke and axe-throwing.
A trampoline site in Derby is up for sale. The Jumpin Fun inflatable trampoline park (pictured) has occupied the site in Siddals Road for five years. The operators say that the business would remain, but the building is ujp for sale.
It was formerly Bounce Revolution that closed in 2018. Last year Jumpin Fun underwent a major refurbishment, adding climbing walls, basketball games and other features.
FunBox Entertainment is planning to open one of its Urban Fun locations in the Broad Street Mall, Reading, if a revision of the plans are approved. Instead of four duckpin bowling lanes, the company wants to install four art dart boards and four pool tables. The rest of the location will be filled with amusement machines and VR.
A Lane 7 installation is coming at Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. The operator already has one location in the city and now plans another before the end of the year at Gateshead with a third in the autumn.
