Re: Re: Shopfront race to the bottom

You don’t need planning permission for a new shop if there’s already been a shop there, but you do for new signage or alterations to the shopfront. So what people are doing is they’re opening a shop, putting up new signage, then either appying for retention or leaving it there as long as they can possibly get away with.

The council need to get really tough on this sort of thing or else the ambience of the city centre is going to go down the toilet.