Plans

Planning permission was essential for our building apparently, as launderette to launderette/cafe counts as change of use. As slow and irritating as this process is (we won't know until November) it has forced us to get on with some of the decision making, what kind of outside lighting do we want etc.

Excuse the rather primitive drawing, but this shows some of the ideas we're hoping to implement, for example using large spools as outside seating (2x £15 from a reclamation yard) and graffiti up the wall to the left. Were hoping one or more really talent street or graffiti artist will come and provide this, we want to ingratiate ourselves into the stokes croft community and it has some exceptional graffiti talents.

We also created a very basic 3D image, on google sketch up, (note not to scale) as a representation of our building, we don't have access to the flats above. 

Take note that we have a bus stop right in front of our window, we have not yet figured out whether this feature's advantages out weigh its disadvantages.