Incoming store knocked back on 'inappropriate' signs

A RETAIL chain has responded to Birmingham City Council's decision to reject its proposal to put up signage above its new Bullring store after officers found the designs to be 'wholly inappropriate'

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The Bullring shopping centre announced the upcoming arrival of the Japanese casualwear brand Uniqlo at the end of March.

It confirmed that the fashion giant would be moving into the old Zara store outside the mall following Zara's move into the upper level of the old Debenhams unit.

But plans to refurbish the vacant plot ahead of Uniqlo’s much-anticipated opening hit a snag after Birmingham City Council's planning department rejected a bid to display seven internally-illuminated fascia signs showing the general Uniqlo red-and-white branding on the building's front and side elevations.