A business owner has applied to turn her health food shop into a flat.
The shop called Man Shuen Hong in Tring Close, Barkingside, will be converted into a ground floor flat if Redbridge Council grant permission.
In documents accompanying the application the agent Tony Fisk of Churley and Associates said: "The owner of the property has had difficulty in running this as a going conercen and as she has found that the value of the property has, in fact, been recorded by commercial agents as being very low as the location is not a prime location for business or commerical enterprise."
There are already two self-contained flats above the shop.
No date has yet been set for a decision on the application.
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