A landmark building in Blackpool tipped for a £26m transformation into a hotel has been put up for sale.
The grade II-listed former Post Office building in Abingdon Street has hit the market with an undisclosed asking price.
Planning permission was first granted to convert the property into a Hotel Indigo and Indigo Suites with 148 bedrooms in November 2021.
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At the time, they were the fourth set of plans to come forward for the site, which also includes the former Edward Street sorting office, since the Post Office closed in 2007.
However fresh plans for a 144-bedroom hotel were revealed
on the uncertainty around the scheme after the project missed out on government funding for a second time.
Blackpool Council had sought £8m from the Levelling Up fund towards the cost of converting the historic building into a hotel.
But while the town received £40m towards creating a multiversity campus in the town centre, the Post Office project and a traffic access project were both rejected.
Ashall Projects, which is proposing to develop the building, said it would also be looking at other ways of proceeding.
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