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UK: Local developer plans a 74-room hotel and spa refurbishment project for the former Lindsey Lower School site in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire.
The plans involve keeping the original building intact, and include a 74-room hotel with leisure facilities, function rooms and eight retail units fronting Clee Road.
Two former pupils of the school are involved with the project. Simon Jones, a Cleethorpes solicitor is acting for the developer, while architect Steven Ibbotson, is developing the plans for the conversion.
“The scheme not only has a sympathetic touch, as it will preserve the building as a whole, but will also help to keep it in the public domain. This has to been seen as a welcomed and viable alternative to the standard housing development option. It is a lovely old building and it would be a shame to lose it to a speculative developer who is either going to cut it up into pieces or going to flatten it. I am a former pupil and I have feelings for it, and I think a lot of people have a passion for it,” said Ibbotson.
“The developer is keen as mustard for it,” he added.
The 3.5 acre site was put on the market by North East Lincolnshire Council and its partner Balfour Beatty in June, having closed in the summer of 2007.
