Local business/Planning

The site of a potential development at 12–14 Picardy Place (backing onto Broughton Street Lane) is under offer. The name of the prospective buyer has not been made public. 

David Howie Scott, director of the popular Howie’s restaurants, wants to put a bronze plaque commemorating the 19th-century anti-slavery campaigner Frederick Douglass outside premises at 29A Waterloo Place (26/00212/LBC). 

Proposed wording for the 330mm x 500ml memorial is: