A historic Wirral hotel could be demolished to allow for more than a dozen flats to be built.
The Hollins Hey Hotel in New Brighton has been part of the landscape since it was built in 1870 and many were sad to hear of its eventual closure. But tomorrow’s meeting of Wirral Council’s Planning Committee will debate plans to knock it down and build 14 new flats.
Last year, the ECHO reported that former owner Ian Carruthers blamed a “dramatic reduction in turnover and profitability” after the recession in 2008-11 for the hotel’s closure and that while the development at Marine Point had increased footfall, the “most damaging aspect” had been the opening of the budget Travelodge.
