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Yeah, that thread did prompt the question.


Like many threads on the EDF though, it's gone way beyond a discussion about the merits of the planning application, and has descended (or ascended) into a debate about the usual ED issues: gentrification, the CPZ, chain v independent stores, cheese tasters, James Barber, etc, etc.


Good reading on a slow day.

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