Plan for holiday homes at historic Hunmanby Hall

Hunmanby Hall was a girls boarding school from 1928 until it closed in 1991

A leisure centre is planning to build 14 holiday homes on the site of a former school.

The owners of Hunmanby Hall near Filey are seeking permission for the redevelopment of "unused buildings".

The proposal would see a sports hall replaced with eight two-bedroom terraced cottages while an adjoining gym would be converted into six one-bedroom holiday homes.

North Yorkshire Council is considering the planning application.

The sports facilities date back to the time when the hall was a boarding school for girls, which closed in 1991.

According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, the applicants said the plan would, "improve the setting of nearby listed buildings" through the removal of the functional sports hall and would bring the brownfield site back into "a productive use".

The buildings have been empty or underused for several years and closed since 2022, according to the applicant.

The proposal would see 14 holiday homes erected on the site of the former school sports hall and gym

The holiday homes would use the existing entrance onto Hall Park Road as well as an existing car parking area.

The planned redevelopment is in the vicinity of several listed buildings and is within a conservation area but the applicant has said the "impact on the listed buildings is neutral".

They added the whole golf and leisure site "has been marketed for around two years, and no purchaser has come forward to run the gym and sports hall".

"This demonstrates the lack of need for the facility and that marketing has not identified a new operator for the gym", the application said.