Former football manager Harry Redknapp has won a bid to convert a former hotel and replace it with 14 luxury flats, making 20 people homeless. They have twice failed to convince the council to let them turn the former Belgravia Hotel into luxury residences, but a third bid has been approved by planning bosses. Among those living there are people with disabilities and cancer sufferers, who Redknapp issued with eviction notices earlier this year. In a planning statement submitted to Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council, planning agent Tom Whild, said: 'Although the site is referred to as Belgravia Hotel, it has been some years since it was last used as a hotel. Resident Gary Bennett, who has lived at Belgravia Hotel since March 2013, said: 'I do not wish to move, the landlady has been so kind to me since being here.

Source: Daily Mail October 15, 2019 10:30 UTC