City officials said that it would issue a holiday rental certificate only to applicants who bought a shop or office and turned it a residential dwelling.

The building - spanning almost 1,570 sq ft over two floors, with a wonderful wall of glass on one side - needs planning consent to be converted into a 'residential dwelling'.

In the early 1990s the tower was turned into a residential dwelling.

Since one couldn't walk any distance in this city without passing by residential dwellings, even brief scuttles home like this one wore him out with resentment.

Thanks to their limited occupation, halls are exempt from many of the codes and standards that govern residential dwellings, from the amount of daylight required to acoustics.