Plans for a hotel in central St Andrews may be abandoned in favour of student accommodation
The owner of Abbey Park House, in the old St Leonards fields, has planning permission to convert the listed building into a 47-bed hotel and had been marketing the derelict property around the world.
Developer Robertson Homes is now seeking consent to turn the former St Leonards School boarding house into student digs instead due to a lack of interest in the scheme from the hotel industry.
It is seeking planning permission and listed building consent from Fife Council to convert Abbey Park House into student accommodation comprising 98 bedrooms …