“ This seems crazy to me, the former Spa Collage on the High Street, Meadow Works, Brake Shear House and the station car park were surely more suited sites for a hotel as they have (for the most part) no immediate residential neighbours.
Instead they are getting homes and nurse's accommodation and the one place that is a residential street is getting a 4-storey hotel 10m away.
Is it only me that thinks this is planning maddness? ”