A CWMBRAN hotel could be demolished to make way for housing after plans were submitted to Torfaen council.

The Commodore Hotel, in Llanyrafon, which went into administration on December 29 last year, could be replaced with a mix of two-storey and three-storey houses.

The hotel has been a popular venue over the years for weddings and other functions, and is now run by joint administrators Tim Dolder and Trevor Binyon, from RSM Tenon Recovery, in Milton Keynes.

Torfaen council received the proposal for outline planning permission for the hotel from Llanyrafon Properties Limited last month.

The Commodore Hotel is a family-run business split into two sections with large modern multistorey flat-roof buildings added on to Llanyrafon House, which was built around 1880.

A design and access statement explains that the hotel employs eight full-time staff and is currently winding down and is an underused site.

It suggests the site could be suitable for 31 houses – the majority of which would be twostorey houses with steeply pitched roofs with single-storey garages, but that there is the potential for some three-storey houses.

The statement says the development would have a courtyard-style area with safe and direct walking and cycling links, and that it would use and improve the existing entry and exit points on Mill Lane.