Council gives green light to demolition of town landmark.
Plans to demolish Bournemouth’s former Royal Mail sorting office and build shops and 78 apartments in its place won unanimous approval from councillors.
The town’s planning board gave the outline proposals the green light after hearing that the historic building in Albert Road will deteriorate if it continues to be left empty.
Everything except the facade will be demolished and a six-storey building will be erected in its place.
The ground floor will be a double height commercial space with three floors of apartments above and a glazed link will connect this to another building, comprising of a commercial space and five storeys of flats above.
A third section, which will also comprise six storeys, will have a very modern design.
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