Paris approves plan to turn Champs-Élysées into 'extraordinary garden'

Mayor Anne Hidalgo gives green light to 225m-scheme to transform French capital's most famous avenue

The mayor of Paris has said a 250m (225m) makeover of the Champs-Elysees will go ahead, though the ambitious transformation will not happen before the French capital hosts the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Anne Hidalgo said the work, unveiled in 2019 by local community leaders and businesses, would turn the 1.9-km (1.2-mile) stretch of central Paris into an extraordinary garden".