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Speaker 1: Well, the iconic and not a word I like to overuse,

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Speaker 1: but in this case, the iconic Charles's Hotel could soon

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Speaker 1: be redeveloped. It's been an institution for decades and you

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Speaker 1: know it could be a bit of a nail in

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Speaker 1: the coffin for live music. But the owner and general

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Speaker 1: manager of the Charles is Chris Angel Coffin. He's joining

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Speaker 1: us now.

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Speaker 2: Hello Chris, Chris, Welcome, Good morning guys. Chris. What can

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Speaker 2: you tell us about what's happening?

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Speaker 3: Well, what I can say to start off was the

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Speaker 3: news of the death of the childs is certainly premature. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 3: and I think there's a bit of a putting the

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Speaker 3: cart before the horse at the moment. Just to fill

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Speaker 3: you in, about eight nine years ago, the city of

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Speaker 3: Vincent in there wisdom, these owned my property from being

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Speaker 3: able to have up to from six to eight stories

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Speaker 3: under the mixed use that degree. They these owned it

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Speaker 3: to poor stories, even though it's such a large side

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Speaker 3: on a HR here or rogue with high frequency public transport, etc.

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Speaker 3: And when I complained, they said, oh, yeah, it is

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Speaker 3: a strategic site and you should be able to have

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Speaker 3: the six stories in a future development. But you need

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Speaker 3: to do a local development plan ten years later, you know,

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Speaker 3: spending money on planners and architects, etc. And negotiating with

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Speaker 3: the council with things being approved. Basically, what it does

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Speaker 3: is it sets sets out what a future development could

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Speaker 3: be as far as setbacks, height and possible uses. There's

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Speaker 3: still no development application prepared or logged or approved, and

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Speaker 3: that process in itself could take years, depending on what

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Speaker 3: projects we're dealing with. So the idea that the Charles

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Speaker 3: is coming down next week or soon is ludicrous.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what we got on, Chris, just to clear

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Speaker 4: a few things up, mate. So the potential development in

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Speaker 4: the future would still include a Charles hotel, but just

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Speaker 4: a new building.

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Speaker 3: What do you think, I'd say, So if you look

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Speaker 3: at the local development plan, it allows for that. So

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Speaker 3: that could have a nice you know, possibly even up

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Speaker 3: to a four star hotel with a reception area that

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Speaker 3: could handle bounds and functions.

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Speaker 1: It said, yeah, well, it definitely is such a prime

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Speaker 1: location and a big block of area. Sometimes you forget

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Speaker 1: just how big that spot is. What would you ideally

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Speaker 1: like to see on the site, Chris, as if the

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Speaker 1: redevelopment does happen, how would you like to see it redeveloped.

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Speaker 3: Well, if you had a look at the local development

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Speaker 3: plan that's been improved. Yeah, even though they're like it's

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Speaker 3: impressions of what could be there. What would be the

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Speaker 3: area that the apartments that on the and on the

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Speaker 3: ground floor there would be things like a tavern, you know,

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Speaker 3: possibly a wine bar, possibly a boutique type of supermarket,

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Speaker 3: smaller shops, et cetera, cafes and especially on Ellesmere Street

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Speaker 3: where things would be sort of looking onto each other.

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Speaker 3: It become a bit of an angle street as far

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Speaker 3: as you know, vibrancy.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, which is outdoor, outdoor, outdoor stuff, you know. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I was there last week about coffee corner over the

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Speaker 4: road there and I looked across and have you got

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Speaker 4: working Is it accommodation upstairs at the childs Now?

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Speaker 2: Is it for public use?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've got accommodation, but it's basically you know, permanence

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Speaker 3: and it's not too fancy. I'm actually in the moment

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Speaker 3: at the moment doing up the major barthroom upstairs.

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Speaker 2: Yes.

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Speaker 3: And also recently I had to spend one hundred and

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Speaker 3: twenty thousand on replacing and as best as roof.

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Speaker 1: On the vand round, so right, ok, yeah, yeah, yes, Well,

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Speaker 1: if there are apartments that don't want to hear from

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Speaker 1: anyone moving in, going it's noisy.

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Speaker 3: We don't on a raffle situation.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly. What were you thinking, Oh that sounds good, Chris,

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Speaker 2: and we were.

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Speaker 1: We did think that this was all probably a bit

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Speaker 1: premature and these things are years in the making.

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Speaker 2: So it was good to clarified or with you this morning.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's great to give me the opportunity to do

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Speaker 3: so and allay any fears. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, keep that bottle shop.

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Speaker 1: I find it very handy my way home because I

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Speaker 1: don't have to cross over Charles Street.

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Speaker 2: I could just nip in and nip back on to Charles.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Chris,