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Plans to bulldoze a city's shopping arcade to make way for flats and shops have been submitted to Leicester City Council.

The building inside Odeon Arcade, which links Market Place and Cank Street, would be transformed under the plans. There would be space for 10 shops on the ground floor, as there is currently, and 53 flats spanning the floors above.

Developer Made Architecture said it would keep the current fa莽ade in Market Street but construct a new building behind the frontage. It said it wanted to "make efficient use of" a "derelict" building. They said that the 鈥渆xisting facade along Cank Street is dull with no design and does not fit into its surrounding鈥�.

Reporter Jo Hollis talks to shop owners in the Odeon Arcade, and Michael Weedon from the Federation for Small Businesses tells Owynn Palmer Atkin what he makes of the plans.