The council says the site near Friary shopping centre "dominates and reflects badly" on the town.

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As the defeated foe, Richard was given a low-key burial in the Franciscan friary of Greyfriars.

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Guildford councillors had been advised to approve the Friary Centre plans even though objections had been received.

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The proposals for the Friary Centre also included reconfiguring existing units, relocating glass lifts and filling in an open atrium.

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Mr Board, whose real name is Barry, said his "most unusual" customer had been a Franciscan monk based at Hilfield Friary.

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The skeleton was discovered buried among the remains of what was once the city's Greyfriars friary, but is now a council car park.

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The group met just outside the Black Friar, an ornately decorated pub built in 1905 on the site of an old Dominican friary near the Blackfriars Bridge.

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Nonetheless, at the tail end of last summer, a team of experts dug three trenches across the site and began hunting for evidence of the long-lost friary, where Richard III was recorded to have been buried.

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