How'a Cheap And Nasty Eyesore' Got Planning Approval

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"It would look in place in Stalinist Russia but alongside listed buildings and on the edge of a conservation area, it is a cheap and nasty eyesore." So wrote an unnamed resident in response to Rivington Street Studio's planning application for De Grey Court.rnLittle wonder, then, that Charles Thomson, Rivington Street's senior director, faced an uphill battle to gain planning approval. Not only was his design overtly contemporary in style, but it alsornembraced a pair of listed Georgian houses, was a few yards from the ancient city wall, and took its place in England's most complete medieval city.