NEW plans have been submitted to demolish the majority of a former prominent hotel in Porth and build new holiday apartments.

The scheme involves knocking down the existing Glendorgal Villa and part demolition of the Glendorgal Hotel in Lusty Glaze Road, change of use to retained parts of the hotel including alterations, extensions to create holiday restrictive self-contained apartments.

It also includes proposals to build new build 12 holiday restrictive dwellings and a new dwelling retaining "open market" unrestricted use as well as the reinstatement of the "Barrow.”

Andrew Beard Planning, on behalf of the applicant, said: “The site is a former hotel site, now not operating, which has adjacent holiday homes, but also includes an important headland area at the entrance to Porth beach.

“Following the grant of previous permission the developers did not complete the contract, which has required a review of the scheme to deliver a viable implementable scheme to enhance and upgrade the headland at Porth.

“It is proposed to demolish most of the existing hotel, with a retained section adjacent neighbouring holiday dwellings to ensure protection when constructing.

“This also allows the new holiday dwellings to be moved back from the cliff improving openness and value of the headland from Porth and opposite. The existing villa will be demolished and replaced as an open market dwelling.

“The central Barrow is the most important feature of the site and is retained with the same conservation scheme to remove the loop road and complete landscaping restoration. This major conservation and landscape benefit is still the core priority of the redevelopment.

“The scheme is essentially the same as the previous permission but with key changes, which includes 13 new units, larger bed units from previous 18 unit permission.

“The previous scheme has proven unviable, and it is important to regenerate this important site on the headland to avoid further irretrievable decay and vacancy.

“The scheme is still a holiday let based scheme suitable outside the settlement boundary as a business/tourist asset with restrictive condition to prevent open market residential except for the replacement existing house on site.

“The scheme is delivering fewer overall units but with a larger viable unit size of three to four beds.

“The main change has been the removal of most of the original house, but in heritage terms whilst this is negative it is a non-designated asset and the benefits of delivering the full scheme after four years of inactivity outweighs that harm.

“At present the site is a poor vacant hotel complex with a degraded landscape and visual impacts of road and car park. This scheme overall will enhance the coastal headland and deliver a focus for conservation and landscape.”