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Martin Redfern
Planning permission to rebuild the Royal Clarence Hotel as residential flats with ground floor commercial units has still not been granted more than eight months after the city council approved the plans.
An extended 26 May deadline to sign a s106 legal agreement requiring developer contributions to health, education and affordable housing elsewhere in the city was not met.
An extended deadline for its completion has now been set at 14 July, six years and nine months after the hotel burnt down.
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