READERS have shared their hopes for the future of a Prestatyn site left vacant after Lyons Nant Hall Hotel’s closure earlier this month.

The hotel, owned by Lyons Holiday Parks since 2010, shut its doors for good on January 1 due to “high running costs”.

The company said it has “decided to apply for change of use” at the site, which is a Grade II listed building.

With a planning application for the change of use yet to appear on Denbighshire County Council’s website, residents have shared their thoughts on what should take its place, and its memories of the visiting the building itself.

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Samantha Naylor said: “A budget hotel, like Travelodge or Premier Inn, would be fab in Prestatyn. Hickory’s Smokehouse would be fab at the bottom.”

Denise Ford added: “Nursing/care homes are desperately needed.”

Likewise, Chris Moore said: “A care home would be great and much-needed, and an affordable one would be even better.”

Mary Rendell added: “A restaurant and hotel, like it used to be in the 60s. It used to be silver service, and always busy.”

Rhodri Davies, meanwhile, suggested the site should be converted into housing, “like (former St Asaph hospital) HM Stanley”.

Richard Touhladjiev said that a new “EV (electric vehicle) car park” would make good use of the site, following Rhyl’s opening of a 36-vehicle EV charging hub – the second-biggest in the UK - last month.

Other suggestions from readers included a community hospital and a caravan site, while some shared their own memories of visiting the Grade II listed building.

Denise Ford also said: “We had my stepdad’s funeral wake there in 1980. The food was lovely,” while Wendy Farnworth “worked there as a nanny” and “loved every minute of it”.

Mark Emlyn Samuels added: “This place was amazing around 15 - 20 years ago. Sunday lunch there was delicious.

“My son enjoyed playing in the garden area when he was a toddler. Great memories.”

Lyons said it would try to redeploy those who worked at Nant Hall elsewhere, while those who had future events booked at the hotel would be reimbursed.

The company, founded in Rhyl in the 1920s, runs almost 20 holiday sites across North Wales and Cumbria.