New plans welcomed for Boscombe's Cliff End Hotel (From Bournemouth Echo)
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New plans welcomed for Boscombe's Cliff End Hotel
1:00pm Monday 21st January 2013 in News By Melanie Vass
FRESH BID: The Cliff End Hotel in Boscombe on fire earlier this year
DEVELOPERS are being invited to submit plans to transform a derelict and fire-damaged hotel.
In a fresh bid to end the saga of the neglected Cliff End Hotel in Boscombe, Bournemouth council is set to issue guidance to prospective developers who might be interested in the site.
The 125-year-old hotel in Manor Road was originally created for the jeweller H Samuel but has been deteriorating ever since it closed in 2002 and earlier this month, it was badly damaged in a fire.
Previous attempts to redevelop the historic hotel have come to nothing and the situation has not been helped by an ongoing row between the freeholder Meyrick Estate and the leaseholders the Boscombe Partnership.
The site development brief drawn up by the council explains that as the site is situated in a conservation area, there are strict rules that control demolition and development.
Any future developer would have to retain the central Victorian part of the building, particularly its front facade, but could demolish other parts.
They would then be able to build new extensions or even an additional building on the site.
Phil Robinson, planning policy, conservation and design manager, said: “The council are aware that the neglected appearance of the site, made worse by the recent fire is a concern for many local residents and we are keen to see the site appropriately developed.
“We are looking to establish a long-term solution bringing the site back into use and the site development brief is an important part of promoting and guiding the redevelopment.” The development brief can be viewed at www.bournemouth.gov.uk/cliffendhotel, at Bournemouth council customer services centre or at any of the town’s libraries.
Comments must be received by Wednesday, February 27.
Comments(13)
BmthNewshound
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1:45pm Mon 21 Jan 13
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If a developer does come forward it will be with a proposal to build yet another block of poorly designed and cheaply built apartments priced beyond the reach of local people. That or another McCarthy & Stone ghetto.
muscliffman
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1:57pm Mon 21 Jan 13
Huey
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2:06pm Mon 21 Jan 13
Azphreal
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2:29pm Mon 21 Jan 13
Amelia_40
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2:33pm Mon 21 Jan 13
Huey wrote:Hahaha!
Fill it full of dossers from the high street, and then rename it The Bell End Hotel.
Bob49
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3:54pm Mon 21 Jan 13
That can all be funded by building a 'small' number of appartments.
Which thankfully will sell at a premium as the council ever so thoughtfully, an coincidentally, tarted up Boscombe gardens in readiness for such a development.
Gastines3
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4:03pm Mon 21 Jan 13
muscliffman
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4:16pm Mon 21 Jan 13
Bob49 wrote:Quite, but whatever goes up here, can we please ensure the colour scheme is outsource 'designed' at taxpayers unknown expense.
Surely there should be at least one cinema and a number of restaurants inclded in the plans .... plus the ubiquitous climbing wall and surf wave machine, always necessary to get anything lik this through planning.
That can all be funded by building a 'small' number of appartments.
Which thankfully will sell at a premium as the council ever so thoughtfully, an coincidentally, tarted up Boscombe gardens in readiness for such a development.
Baywolf
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6:05pm Mon 21 Jan 13
B.F.G
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8:50pm Mon 21 Jan 13
Bob49
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8:52pm Mon 21 Jan 13
yes, I do wonder why the council are very coy about telling us how much they paid the Hemingways for painting the surf pods.
And why the Daily Echo seem very reluctant to ask them.
Yankee1
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10:35pm Mon 21 Jan 13
He knows the Boscombe 'market'.
churchill gardens resident says...
1:31pm Mon 21 Jan 13