A planning application for new signage has been submitted for Nelson Place in Smith Street. It proposes installing the brand’s black and white signage over the shop, as well as repainting the blue-painted features at ground floor level with black paint, such as pillar details and timber window frames. Advertising vinyls would be applied internally to windows, with a hanging sign installed outside.
In the planning application covering letter Gerard Holt from project agent A7 Design said the client wanted to erect brand signage in a sensitive manner to preserve the building’s historic features. ‘They are not looking to remove any of the existing shop front or fenestration and aim to add their brand whilst retaining all existing features (including the Post Office signage) causing minimal disturbance to the high street scene, supporting the vitality of town, being one of the more prominent gateway retail units,’ he said in the covering letter. ‘Minimal fixings will be used to minimise harm, ensuring the existing features are retained without affecting the existing features and structural integrity.
’ The building, which has been listed since 2009, was built in the 1880s to house the Town post office. It closed as a post office about 16 years ago, when services moved across the road. It was sold by the States for £1.
6m. in 2013 and went on to become a pound shop, but this has since closed. In recent times it has been used as a pop-up charity shop.
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