Police were positioned in front of a block of small businesses topped with apartments in the village of Herkimer on Wednesday evening.

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It wants to demolish the building instead and replace it with an eight-storey modern apartment block with a total of 24 one and two-bed apartments for rent.

BBC: The Abbey Mills building (Photo: rg+p)