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Iconic Hove hotel on the market for £8m

An iconic seaside hotel where Ian Fleming wrote Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is up for sale for a proposed £8m.

The Lansdowne Hotel, formerly the Dudley Hotel, in Hove, which once played host to Winston Churchill, closed in 2013 after falling into disrepair.

According to The Argus, the property, which fell into administration with debts of £9m, shut its doors after a buyer could not be found.

Morgan Carn Partnership Architects of Brighton was appointed to draw up plans to rescue the prolific hotel.

The plans, which have since been granted by Brighton and Hove City Council, are to create 45 residential apartments and five mews houses at the site.

The main building of the five- storey hotel would be demolished and replaced with 43 three and five-storey apartments.

Administrator KPMG said just less than half of the units will be affordable, with rented and shared ownership.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ellen Forster .