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A taste of this week’s post
the featured oneSomeone’s finally doing something with the old bank on Hart Street.
The old bank wants to become a six-room guest house. The town council recommends refusal — on the grounds it’s a listed building. Small problem: it isn’t listed. It’s mock-Tudor, from 1912.
“The listing argument won’t hold — so this one’s likely going through on appeal even if the council says no. Worth a look if you walk past it every day.”
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