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A retirement town has become so overrun with coffee shops officials decided to leave a store empty rather than allow another one to open.<br />
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Christchurch in Dorset now has 14 coffee shops on a 500 metre stretch of its High Street - an average of one every 35 metres.<br />
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The matter came to a head when chain company Coffee#1 sought planning permission to turn a former shoe shop that has been empty for a year into another of their outlets.<br />
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The application left rival cafe owners in the normally genteel coastal town frothing with rage.

BNPS.co.uk (01202 558833)
Pic: RogerArbon/BNPS

The Boardroom.

A retirement town has become so overrun with coffee shops officials decided to leave a store empty rather than allow another one to open.

Christchurch in Dorset now has 14 coffee shops on a 500 metre stretch of its High Street - an average of one every 35 metres.

The matter came to a head when chain company Coffee#1 sought planning permission to turn a former shoe shop that has been empty for a year into another of their outlets.

The application left rival cafe owners in the normally genteel coastal town frothing with rage.