Proposals to transform a former Thomas Cook store into an amusement centre have been thrown out for a second time. Slots Trading submitted a bid to change the use of the vacant travel agents in Canterbury High Street from retail to an arcade incorporating bingo. The firm argues the site has been marketed as a ‘prime shop to let’ since March 2021 and has not been advertised for another use – other than its current retail one. Planning documents claim there has been interest in the empty store for other non-retail uses and a deal has been agreed for a bingo arcade. However, the local authority d…
