The hotel that inspired the cult TV series Fawlty Towers is to be knocked down and replaced with retirement flats.
The BBC writes:
Churchill Retirement Living will convert the site after its plans were approved by Torbay Council.
Former owner Donald Sinclair unwittingly became the inspiration for Cleese’s character Basil Fawlty.
The 41-bedroom hotel ceased trading early this year and Churchill Retirement Living applied to use the site for 36 retirement apartments.
Fawlty Towers, voted number one in the British Film Institute’s 100 Greatest Television Programmes in 2000, ran for just 12 episodes.
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