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Bishopsgate Street, York

We opposed an application to demolish this very distinctive listed late Georgian property and, as you can see, it has been successfully incorporated into a broader redevelopment behind.

The highly distinctive banana footprint seems to have been adopted by the original designer to maximise access to natural light and to introduce rather grand steps up to the front door that other citizens would not have to circumvent.

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