It looks like the Surbiton Plaza has hit problems already in trying to get their shops let.

This change of use application is for one of the main street units - this points to them having shag all chance of letting the ones down their back alley at this rate.

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I don't think surbiton needs any more restaurants - they're's more than enough at the minute - the real problem is that a fair few of them are pretty bland & dated and don't make much of an effort.

The new "hotel" beside the wetherspoons has been trying to let its ground floor as an independent restaurant for some time now without success.

Despite the PR blurb, this new Surbiton Plaza is pretty bland as well.
Btw, the shops within it will never survive, located down a dark alleyway. It’s hard enough to persuade shoppers to come into surbiton, never mind persudae them to go down an overshadowed alleyway when they get there.

Are the palnenrs trying to recreate the glory days of the seventies when they waved through the destruction of much of surbiton’s architectural heritage?