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As The Press reported yesterday, City of York Council has received a planning application for the site of 18-20 Stonegate, the former home of Kingdom of Sweets and Jack Wills.
The Ghost of William Etty - a group formed back in the 1990s to help save York stone pavements from being pulled up in city streets - has now spoken out about the plan.
One of the group's founders, Gordon Campbell-Thomas, said he welcomed plans to paint the exterior a more subtle colour than 'the current gross purple colour it is at the moment'.
While the business was still Kingdom of Sweets they applied for retrospective consent after the event to paint the front purple.
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