expand its St. John's Road, Pembroke building.

And Standard Hardware has received permission to add a fifth floor to its building, but may not proceed because of the poor economy.

The Development Applications Board approved Telco's application to refurbish and build onto a building now used as a reporting office for field workers and as a storage area for shipments of telephones and equipment. Telco assistant general manager of operations Mr. Collington Perinchief said the 1950 building is desperately in need of upgrading. And he said it is badly situated so part of it will be torn down and a new building erected.

Telco submitted the application in April and again in May with revisions.

Conditions of approval include parking for a minimum of 37 cars and 44 cycles and landscaping the entire site within three months plus "any trees or shrubs removed, dying or becoming seriously diseased or damaged'' must be replaced by similar plants.

Standard Hardware, on Bakery Lane, Pembroke was given approval to add a fifth floor.

However, general manager Mr. Stephen Dallas said the approval was so long in coming the company is reconsidering expanding in light of the poor economy.

The application was submitted in March.

Mr. Dallas said the extra floor would be primarily for office space.

A couple living just outside of Hamilton have been given permission to prepare food for a lunch wagon in the basement of their home. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Stevens of 4 Princess Estate Road were told by the DAB that the approval given was for the preparation of food for a lunch wagon operation only.

The DAB also turned down Mr. W. King's application to build seven additional lots on his `Lemon Hill' estate in Southampton.

A Planning spokesman said the estate currently has a single house on it and is covered in "good quality woodland''.

The board said the subdivision would "at this time be premature and contrary to public interest'' and be "detrimental to the character and amenities of the area''.

And it said the land forms a "strategically important tract of land which, in its existing predominantly undeveloped state, is of major landscape importance''.

Mr. Collington Perinchief.