OK for extensions at country hotel

Extensions including a new dining hall, bedrooms and kitchen at the Wrea Head Hall Hotel have been approved by Scarborough Council.

The new extensions at the country house hotel on Barmoor Lane, Scalby, are set to increase the hotel’s capacity for overnight stays and diners.

The two-storey and single-storey extensions include three new bedrooms and an additional kitchen and dining hall.

The three new bedrooms will complement the existing 29 bedrooms, although the hotel is in the process of adding a further four additional bedrooms.

To make way for the development, the council has also approved the demolition of existing outbuildings at the hotel with the new extensions totalling 420sq m.

According to the application, submitted by Gerald Aburrow on behalf of the hotel, the new dining room and restaurant will be able to accommodate up to 90 guests.

This will include a mezzanine seated area.

According to an ecological survey, the outbuildings which are set to be demolished are home to “a small day roost of pipistrelles” meaning that a licence from Natural England is required for the project to proceed. The presence of the pipistrelle bats means that “demolition should avoid [the] period October to March” as well as requiring “two bat boxes to be installed before commencement of works on trees”.

No objections were received from Newby and Scalby Parish Council, the Highway Authority, nor environmental health.