Royal London House Holdenhurst Rd 34 680 pi² 100% Loué Bureau Immeuble Bournemouth BH8 8AA À vendre

Royal London House occupies a highly prominent position on the northern side of Christchurch Road at the Lansdowne roundabout, at the southern end of the B3066. The immediate area is a vibrant mixed-use district, home to offices, student accommodation, restaurants, bars and retail. Bournemouth railway station is approximately 0.5 km (0.3 miles) from the property, just a 6-minute walk, and provides frequent direct services to London Waterloo with journey times from 1 hour 47 minutes. The prime retail core of Bournemouth town centre lies less than 0.5 miles to the west. Bournemouth’s award-winning beaches are located approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) from the property, or around a 15-minute walk. The town’s 7-mile stretch of sandy coastline is one of the most popular visitor destinations on the south coast, attracting millions of tourists each year and supporting a vibrant leisure and hospitality economy. For international travel, Bournemouth Airport is situated approximately 6.6 km (4.1 miles) to the northeast, around a 10-minute drive, offering a range of UK and European connections. Bournemouth is also a major university town. Bournemouth University, ranked among the UK’s top modern universities, has more than 19,000 students and a strong reputation in media, business, and hospitality. Together with Arts University Bournemouth and Bournemouth & Poole College, the student population adds significantly to local demand for accommodation, amenities, and services.
Prominent Freehold Income Producing C1 Property For Sale - POA The property comprises a 9 storey (plus basement) former office building, most recently used as a combination of offices and holiday let accommodation. Access is provided via a dedicated ground floor entrance, with stairs and two passenger lifts serving the upper levels. The building is constructed around a central lightwell extending from the basement, which allows for good natural light throughout. With the exception of the eighth floor, the floorplates are largely consistent in size, although layouts vary. Each floor benefits from access to the main service core, incorporating staircases, male and female WCs and the two lifts, and all levels are also served by a secondary stairwell. The ground floor is largely excluded from the sale and falls under separate ownership. Floors one and two are currently in office use, while floors three to six have been converted to immaculate high specification holiday accommodation. The seventh floor comprises vacant office space with planning consent in place for conversion to a restaurant, offering potential for further development. The eighth floor, while differing in layout from the rest of the building, also benefits from planning consent for restaurant use. On the vacant office space the specification includes suspended ceilings with recessed lighting and double-glazed UPVC window units. The specification of floors three, four, five and six is to a high standard, including modern fitted kitchens and bathrooms, with decorative styling throughout. Please refer to the Savills 'Virtual Walkthrough' Prominent Central Bournemouth Location Short walk to the beach Prominent 9-storey building 3 Vacant office floors available to either lease or redevelop 4 floors refurbished to a high standard of of C1 holiday letting accommodation which is income producing The top floors benefits from approved planning consent for a restaurant development.
Extensive views over the town and sea from the upper floors Price on Application (Subject to Status) The property has planning for use class E and C1 use under alterations, conversion and extension of the existing building from a mixed D1 (non-residential education) and B1 (office) use into a mixed use consisting of Serviced Accommodation (Tourism C1 use), a flexible Co-working/shared office space (B1 use) and ancillary hospitality/cafe/restaurant/event space with associated cycle and bin store granted under 7-2019-1102-BX. Currently there are two planning permissions under consideration, which include a Variation for rewording of conditions no. 7 (Holiday apartments) of planning application 7-2019-1102-BX as described in that description of development to allow the apartments to be rented for 6 month over the winter months and shall not be occupied for anything other than holiday letting purposes during the period between Easter Monday and 30 September in any year under ref: P/25/03176/CONDR and Change of use of 2nd floor from co-working space (Class E) to 10 holiday lets (C1) and change of use of 7th floor from hospitality space to 5 residential flats (C3) under 7-2024-1102-BZ.
www.bcpcouncil.gov.uk Four floors are currently managed by holiday accommodation providers and have been operational for approximately four months. Revenue & projection figures can be made available to seriously interested parties, subject to status.
The opportunity exists to continue leasing out the holiday accommodation which is achieving month on month growth. There then exists the opportunity to convert the remainder of the building to C3 private residential, Co-living or BTR (STP). Finally, given the property's proximity to Bournemouth University a Sui Generis Student Accommodation consent may also be possible (STP).