A FORMER hotel could be demolished to make way for 14 new flats.

Caledonian Heritable Ltd has applied for permission to tear down the former Golf Hotel on Dirleton Avenue, North Berwick.

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According to the application, which has now been lodged with East Lothian Council’s planning department: “The proposal is to deliver a high-quality, high-specification and energy-efficient development that benefits from the use of current construction and environmental enhancing technologies, and which will, over time, settle into its surrounds and become a positive addition to the local fabric of the conservation area.

“The apartment block consists of four ground, first and second floor apartments of two and three bedrooms, with two third-floor two-bedroom apartments within the roofscape.

“The apartments circulate around a central communal lobby area, lift and stairwell, providing eight two-bedroom and six three-bedroom apartments equating to 14 apartments in total.”

The property, which was last known as the Golf Hotel in about 2006, was most recently used as staff accommodation for the Marine Hotel until being sold to Caledonian Heritable in 2021.