Separately city planners had recommended that an application for five flats and a gym on the site be accepted but at a meeting of the council's development committee last week they voted to defer the decision until their next meeting.

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An earlier export licence application for the painting in February 2000 was withdrawn after the RCEWA recommended that export be deferred for three months to allow time for a potential purchaser to be identified.

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