Retirement village plan for the the site of a landmark hotel
Last updated 19:42, Thursday, 10 July 2008
THE landmark Skinburness Hotel near Silloth could be demolished and a retirement village built in its place.
The plan could see a complex of flats, bungalows and a care home on the site if talks over the future of the 130-year-old hotel are successful.
The hotel has lain empty since 2006 when it was repossessed after former owners Adrian and Vanessa Moore, of County Durham were declared bankrupt.
At auction last December, System Cycle Ltd, a holding company for development company NorthStar Capital Projects bought the hotel for £450,000.
The plan is believed to depend on a link with Chichester Hall, a nearby residential home.
Chris Root, director of Lakeland Care Services which owns the Chichester Hall, said he had merely an enquiry from NorthStar.
Danny Sharpe, development director of NorthStar, said: “We will be looking at some form of extra care housing and a potential link to Chichester Hall but that’s as far as any discussions have gone.”
Peter McRobert, chairman of the Save the Skinburness Action Group, said residents were broadly supportive of the plan.
The Skinburness Hotel was built by leading Cumbrian architect Charles Ferguson in 1878.
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