A plan to partially demolish the Queens Hotel in Upper Norwood and construct new buildings in its place has been rejected.

The plan was to demolish the buildings to the rear of the site, and replace them with a new rear extension (4-6 storeys in height height in storeys) would have seen nearly 100 new jobs created.

Going into the council meeting on October 19, the recommendation made by the planning committee was to approve the plans to build.

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After two hours of debate, however, this motion was struck down.

The proposal was rejected "on the grounds of overdevelopment and massing, which is detrimental to the character and appearance to the conservation area and issues of car-parking and the impact on the scale of development on additional on-street car-parking."

Croydon North MP seemed to be delighted about the decision not to knock down the hotel and took to twitter to voice his satisfaction.

"Many thanks to Croydon's planning committee for listening to residents and refusing the over-sized Queen's Hotel redevelopment," he said.

At the moment the hotel - which dates back to 1854 - has 334 rooms, 38 car parking spaces at the front of the hotel and space for 25 cars to park at the rear.

The proposal - if approved - would have seen those numbers rise to 530 rooms and 170 parking spots.