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How the Liston Hotel site might look if re-development is approved. Picture: ARC Architecture A BOSCOMBE hotel could be demolished and replaced by a four or five storey block of 33 flats. Planning papers have been submitted this week for the Liston Hotel site at the junction of Boscombe Cliff Road and Wollstonecraft Road. Lauder Property Ltd and Dorset Homes Ltd plan to build sixteen two-bed flats; six one-bed and eleven three-bed flats on the 0.2 hectare site, with the new building finished in buff brick, white-painted render and zinc cladding. Their planning statement to BCP council claims the 25-bed hotel with its own function room and restaurant “is of little architectural merit and does nothing to positively reflect the setting of the Boscombe Manor Conservation Area, whose boundary is contiguous with the eastern and northern boundaries of the site. The hotel appears to date from the 1960s and has reached the end of its functional life.”