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Pleas to save hotel rejected LAST-DITCH bids to retain a historic Bognor Regis seafront hotel have failed. Impassioned pleas to ensure The Royal Hotel was able to provide rooms for visitors were rejected. The 8-4 vote, with one abstention, by Arun District Council members means a proposal to change use of the prominent building from a hotel to 18 flats was approved. Cllr Elaine Stainton, (C, Felpham W)
said she was totally against turning the hotel totally over to residential use. “I just think this is a very sad day. It’s awful this is going to be flats, flats, flats. “It is one of our character buildings in Bognor Regis, which is a Victorian building when others have been pulled down, and is the only one left as an hotel. “It is a fantastic location, it really is, and we are so short of rooms in Bognor Regis. There ought to be a restaurant on
the ground floor. It used to thrive under its previous owners.” Her comments at Wednesday’s meeting of Arun’s development control committee were backed by Cllr Paul Wells (LD, Hotham). He said the views about Bognor Regis seafront had changed since the change of use was first debated in 2015. “Arun are moving forward with their regeneration plans for the seafront. There is obviously a lot of talk about bringing
forward the seafront strategy. This building should form part of those plans. “It is iconic in its site and it is located in a conservation area and one we should be fighting for as a council to seek to retain it as a facility to aid the regeneration of the seafront. We should be going back to the developer and saying come up with another plan." Cllr Jim Brooks (I, Marine) also called Turn to page five
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