PLANS to turn an iconic hotel into apartments and build another block alongside it are under consideration by Trafford Council.

Trafford Park Hotel was built around 120 years ago, but has deteriorated since it closed in the late 2000s.

A series of owners of the site on Third Avenue have tried to breathe life back into it, but without success.

These include Ashley Hotels, who bought it for £900,000 around five years ago, and Property Hub, who bought it from them for £825,000 in September 2020.

The Messenger understands Property Hub sold the hotel around a year later, again at a price of £825,000.

Now, the latest owners want to turn it into 15 apartments and build a block of 20 apartments alongside it.

Messenger Newspapers: An illustration of the plans (Image: DV Architects).An illustration of the plans (Image: DV Architects).

An application to Trafford Council on behalf of Food and Tipple Ltd, a business registered to an address in Bolton, reads: "This application seeks approval for the refurbishment of the existing building and its conversion for residential use.

"Such a move could help to safeguard the future of this building through sensitive refurbishment work and an end to its dereliction.

"This application also seeks approval for a new residential block to be constructed within the site, adjacent to the existing building.

"This new residential block provides funding for the extensive work required to the listed building and provides a sensitive counterpart within the wider site."

A three-week consultation on the plans for the iconic hotel ended on March 25, but attracted little response from people in the area.

Although Tim Field, pub protection officer for Trafford and Hulme Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), expressed the concern over the loss of its original use.

He commented: "While Trafford and Hulme CAMRA supports the retention and reuse of this historic, Grade-II listed building, it would like to see the feasibility of its reuse as a hotel explored further and therefore objects to this application."

Mike Cordingley, a councillor for Gorse Hill Ward which covers the hotel, called in the application to be considered by the planning committee a short time before he stood down from his position last month. A decision is due before the end of May.