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Apple's London store faces stumbling block over sunlight restriction

by Kelly Hodgkins Sep 2nd 2011 at 12:00PM

A battle is brewing over a future development that could house London's newest Apple Store. The City of London owns a plot of land at 100 Cheapside and is looking to sell the property to US developer Hines. Hines has plans to build a 10-story development with both office space (87,000 square feet) and retail space (13,000 square feet).

Apple has been singled out as a possible tenant, but the company's plans to add another London store could be thwarted by a sunlight law. Under this law, neighbors have a right to block the construction of a building that blocks out sunlight.

The City of London is asking the transport and policy committees to override this sunlight law and let the building plans continue. If it does receive approval, this would put an Apple store in one of the wealthiest neighborhood of London.



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cloudgazer

Cheapside is an odd place for an Apple store because it has very little foot traffic at weekends, the City being primarily a working weekday kinda place.

September 02 2011 at 3:08 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ManOnFire

Image if New York City had a sunlight law... it might be as wide open any small town. Never mind the fact that businesses would have moved elsewhere, this is a modern progressive utopia we are trying to build here!

September 02 2011 at 12:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nini

This is a whole lot of "maybe", isn't it? It's only tangentially related to Apple in that they might just maybe be moving into this new development.

September 02 2011 at 12:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Alex Overstim

So neighbors MIGHT try to block development of a building that MIGHT someday house an Apple Store, or might not. Wow, slow news day huh?

September 02 2011 at 12:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jonathan Ober

Why is the wealthiest neighborhood called Cheapside? Is this to thwart dumb criminals?

September 02 2011 at 12:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mikehild

Just make the whole building out of glass, problem solved! I think Apple has some experience working with glass... :)

September 02 2011 at 12:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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