Shopfront race to the bottom

[StephenC]

two words....

DAME STREET

oh lord

[exene1]

A restoration project for you Ryan's pub, Queen Street:

BEFORE:



AFTER:



Just one attractive hanging sign. Back then conservation areas were conservation areas without being conservation areas.

[thebig C]

I noticed the Building on Duke Street opposite Duke lane, which has had hoarding around the ground floor for as long as I can remember is undergoing a revamp. And, just around the corner the single storey and curiously provincial shopping arcade (Grafton Arcade?) is being demolished, hopefully for something good!

[Smithfield Resi]

A restoration project for you Ryan's pub, Queen Street:
Just one attractive hanging sign. Back then conservation areas were conservation areas without being conservation areas.

All that crap is removable, fundamentally the building has been preserved. I'd be more concerned to get BARGAINTOWN BARGAINTOWN BARGAINTOWN BARGAINTOWN BARGAINTOWN to understand what a planning permission is. In all their time in business at that premises, they have not once applied for permission for signage changes, nor ANY other planning permission.

To give them their due however, at least they dropped the hideous signage at the corner in favour of the ART tunnel project.