AN eyesore building is to be demolished and a hotel built if planning permission is granted.

North-East-based Athenaeum Developments Limited (ADL), is preparing to submit an application to redevelop the former Springs Health Club site on Teesside Retail Park.

Since it closed three years ago, the building has fallen into disrepair and under the proposed £7.5m scheme, set to go before Stockton Councillors, would be demolished.

It would be replaced by a 66- bed Travelodge Hotel, a Nandos restaurant and a Harvester family restaurant operated by Mitchells and Butler.

The development would create more than 60 full-time equivalent permanent jobs, with about the same number being created during the construction phase.

In addition, once the hotel and restaurants become fully operational, further jobs will be created as a result of local businesses supplying services and goods.

Father and daughter team Neil and Beth Wright, who run Sunderland-based ADL, have been responsible for a number of developments, including a site close to the Metrocentre in Gateshead, which now features a Holiday Inn Express, a Travelodge and a range of restaurants including TGI Fridays, Frankie & Bennys and Kentucky Fried Chicken.