Good question Rob.

I'd be interested to know the nature of the dispute if Ana can share it - if it's a case of unreasonable rent increases then I'd be happy to lobby Wilmotts and make them aware that driving other businesses out of the area is not going to do anything for their own business (both in terms of lower commissions due to the area being less desirable and lack of business due to them having a bad reputation). I'd certainly be at the front of the queue objecting to any application to covert shops into flats like the ones near the crossing on HOP.

Does anybody have an idea of how much of a monopoly Wilmotts have on managing the shops on HOP?