PLANNING approval has been granted for a building adjoining a hotel in Rhyl to be demolished.

Denbighshire County Council applied to its own planning committee last month to knock down the three-storey building next to The George Hotel at 39-41 Queen Street.

This is with a view to then constructing a new building comprising three storeys of residential units in its place.

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The council’s planning committee gave the plans the go-ahead on Friday (August 11).

Extracts from the planning application read that the building to be demolished is “beyond economic repair”.

It added that demolition is due to start on January 8, 2024, and be completed by February 2.

Also included in the proposals, submitted by the council along with Chester-based Lovelock Mitchell Architects, are remedial works to the gable wall of The George Hotel.

An ecology officer from the council recommended that planning permission be granted, providing the demolition is carried out in such a way as to “maintain the favourable conservation status of protected species”.

Specifically, it was suggested that works could result in the damage or destruction of active bird nests, and have a negative impact on bats in the area.

A flood consequence assessment concluded that the development is deemed at “high risk of tidal flooding in the future”, when considering the predicted effects of climate change.

But for the time being, at least, it determined that the proposed development is considered to be “at little or no risk of fluvial or tidal/coastal flooding”.