RESIDENTS who oppose plans to turn the Croft Spa Hotel into flats say the scheme would tear the heart out of the village.
Hotel owners, the Coast and Country House group, have applied for planning permission to turn the 200-year-old hotel into apartments and build houses and flats in the grounds. Richmondshire District Council is due to examine the proposals in July.
The scheme would see conversion of the grade II listed hotel into ten self-contained units with parking and gardens. Outbuildings would be demolished to make way for six houses and 23 further apartments.
The proposals have attracted opposition from some residents. One, who did not wish to be named, said the conversion would be unpopular.
The Croft Spa was built by Ignatius Bonomi - who also constructed Eggleston Hall, Durham jail and Dinsdale Spa - in 1835, as visitors flocked to the nearby sulphur spa.
In the nineteenth century it was a horse stud.
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