Acland Homes managing director Stephen Litherland discusses the future of the building after the company acquired the hotel from Seaside Inns Ltd.
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00:00 Mark's at the Staincliffe Hotel in St Croix, I'm with Steve Litherland who's going to be developing the area, the land and the hotel, is that correct?
00:08 That's correct, yeah.
00:09 What's your plans?
00:10 Yeah, so hi, so we just acquired this building on Friday last week, so this is the first week that we're really starting to work on the building.
00:18 The plans with it are to get it into a habitable condition so that we can run it as a hotel for the next sort of 12 to 18 months whilst we take the building through the planning system.
00:27 There's a few works going on at the minute, so over there we're just refurbishing the downstairs restaurant which we're going to reopen as a fish and chip restaurant.
00:34 We've had a new boiler fitted, we've got the heating system working, we've got various bookings and things coming up that we're going to be making sure that we're honouring
00:44 and obviously the building's going to be in much better shape for them events.
00:48 The wing at the top there has been condemned by the fire authority, so we're working on getting the access emergency exits sorted out for that.
00:57 We're going to refurbish them rooms and bring them back into fruition for the time being.
01:01 How long do you think that will take?
01:04 So the works will take maybe about two weeks to sort all of the works out to get the building back up and running.
01:09 As quick as that?
01:10 As quick as that, yeah, so we're hoping to have the restaurant back open maybe next week or the week after.
01:14 All of the events that are scheduled will go ahead.
01:17 Fundamentally though what we're trying to do with the building is a redevelopment for residential purposes.
01:22 That's going to take about three or four months for us to work on the plans.
01:25 We'll come back out to the public with the plans in terms of consultation and we'll let everybody know what we're doing as and when we've got some final designs and stuff to show everybody.
01:34 But yeah, for the time being we're going to keep it going as a hotel, honour everything that's been booked and hopefully get it working and functioning.
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