A popular York restaurant requires urgent repairs to prevent ‘potential health and safety issues’.
Yo! Sushi on Church Street is asking for permission to replace its frontage to solve the problem.
Parts of the existing front have rotted away, according to planning documents.
It “has suffered irreparable damage from rotten timber frames, sills and pilasters resulting in potential health and safety issues from glazing falling either within the restaurant or onto passing pedestrians”.
The building on Church Street dates from the 1830s and is Grade II listed.
Built from “high-quality hard wood” the replacement shop frontage would replicate the current one and be painted in dark grey.
“The application is submitted due to the deteriorated existing frontage that has gone beyond regular fill-patch and repainting where serious wood rot has now rendered the existing frontage potentially dangerous to both customers and passing pedestrians where glazing is unstable,” states a planning application to City of York Council.
“In addition due to the existing deteriorated wooden window surrounds despite continual repair and painting the frontage now appears shabby and low quality which can be a deterrent to potential customers entering the premises.”
Yo! Sushi “is appreciative of both the traditional vernacular of the building and the historic town centre setting, and as such has ensured all detailing of the frontage is replicated”.
You can read and comment on the plans on the City of York Council planning portal here.
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