• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

News and entertainment worth sharing – York and North Yorkshire

  • News
  • Radio
  • Vouchers
  • WIN
  • More
    • Tickets
    • Lifestyle
    • Advertise
    • About
    • Contact

Changes planned for ‘undesirable’ York shop on ‘traffic dominated’ street

Mon 20 Dec

Number 17 Coppergate. Photograph: Richard McDougall

Mon 20 Dec 2021  @ 6:19pm
YorkMix
News

There are changes planned to a long-empty York shop in the hope to find a new tenant.

Number 17 Coppergate used to be home to the Al Fresco sandwich shop, but has been vacant for some time.

Now an application is in to repair the property and replace the front with “a subtle, contemporary design of broader appeal”.

[tptn_list limit=3 daily=1 hour_range=1]

The applicant, York consultancy Blinch UK, says the property has failed to let as a retail unit “despite extensive marketing”.

Reasons included the small size of the unit, the shop’s appearance, and its location which is “significantly less desirable than other, more centrally located, alternatives”.

And Coppergate itself is seen as a disadvantage.

“Coppergate continues to be limited by the legacy of traffic domination and narrow footpaths which are not conducive to a positive retail experience,” the application states.

It goes on: “The existing property has limited viability as a retail unit and is deteriorating through the absence of a tenant.

“Coppergate is a secondary retail street which has always suffered in terms of quality of environment when compared to the pedestrian central shopping area.”

They want to market it not just as a shop but more widely – “but the constraint of the poor shopfront will not appeal to uses outside retail or small food and drink outlets as demonstrated by the long period of vacancy.

“The proposed changes will better relate this gabled frontage to the character of Coppergate whilst broadening the appeal to occupants through a more adaptable, subtly contemporary, design.”

You can read more about the application here.


Trending »


Primary Sidebar

Footer

Contact us

General
01904 375 029

Studio/competitions
01904 375 030

Email YorkMix »

5-6 King's Court
Shambles
York  YO1 7LD

Listen to us

You can listen to YorkMix Radio using your DAB+ radio, Alexa or Google smart speaker, or online using the links below.

Click here to listen to YorkMix Radio »

Download the app from Google Play store
Download the app from Apple App store
About us

YorkMix is a trading name of
York Sound Ltd

Registered in England
Company no: 12831940
VAT no: GB289462452

YorkMix Radio public file

  • About
  • Public file
  • Privacy policy
  • Corrections & complaints
  • Contact

Copyright © 2025 YorkMix