A developer wants to drop plans to create a boutique hotel and restaurant in Deganwy.
The Deganwy Castle Hotel, which sits on a prominent site overlooking Conwy estuary, closed back in 2010 - putting 35 staff out of work.
It was later bought by North Wales developer Coastal and Country Developments who secured permission to transform the site into a five star boutique hotel, restaurant, bar and 26 apartments. This would have created dozens of new jobs.
The residential part of the scheme has been completed but planning agent Hourigan Connolly say that the developer has been unable to find a hotelier to take on the site despite efforts to market the property through local and national agents.
They now want to drop the hotel and restaurant plan and build an additional seven apartments instead. 
A planning application is now being prepared to submit to Conwy council and a community meeting was held recently in Deganwy.
Deganwy resident David Williams said: “This was a community hub for Deganwy where clubs and societies met and it has been a big loss over the last few years.
“The planning committee were very strong on insisting that any new scheme did include a hotel, restaurant and bar.
“That we could now lose these facilities permanently would be a very unfortunate development.”
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