Other schemes built since 2007 include those in Carlisle, Truro, Teignmouth, Horsbere in Gloucestershire, Redcar, and Wyke Beck near Leeds.
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The car, a red Seat Ibiza, was later recovered in Wyke.
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As Terry Wyke, a local historian, points out, plans to build a massive hotel on top of the Royal Albert Hall in London would have provoked a national outcry.