A FORMER pub and hotel could be refurbished and converted into ten flats.

In an application to Rother District Council, developer Fondare Developments wants to extend the Sussex Hotel in London Road, Bexhill, which was repossessed and shuttered in June.

It wants to find a new business to take over the ground floor pub as well as close the hotel rooms and create ten self-contained flats. 

It told Rother District Council: “The public house has had multiple reports of unruly and antisocial behaviour towards local residents, and the building needs a drastic overhaul of image to remove this clientele.

“Alternative uses to the pub/hotel will support growth in the area … while the proposed flats will provide living accommodation for single persons, working couples or small families, which will culturally be a better space for the end users and the existing locals.”

Residents have raised concerns over parking, access to the site and whether noise reduction measures would be included as part of the refurbishment.