The Market Weighton Town Crier

Controversial plans to to convert part of the Londesborough Arms into flats have been rejected.

Controversial plans to to convert part of the Londesborough Arms into flats have been rejected by the East Riding of Yorkshire council's planning committee. The plans, submitted by Bagdale Hall Hotels, involved reducing the size of the hotel down to 10 bedrooms, convert the remaining rooms into flats and also to build two cottages at the rear.
The refusal to allow planning permission for this grade II listed building has been a welcome decision for the residents of the town and local businesses. The size of our town and its location really do demand that we have a good quality hotel.  Hopefully now the owners will make an effort to re-open the bedrooms, or failing that bring in someone who can.

The planning refusal follows an earlier application which proposed to convert the whole of the hotel into flats and apartments, an application which was also refused by the planning authorities.

The Londesborough Arms

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First Posted : 23 April, 2007
Last revision : 23 April, 2007