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What will happen to the Cornmill Hotel??
by MikeCovell
over 2 years ago
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Holderness Road
Last updated 9 months ago.
The building stands majestically at the Mount Pleasant Juntion along Holderness Road.
A proud structure designed to look like the Victorian Steam Mill that once stood here.
The origional Mill was the first Steam Mill to be built in Kingston upon Hull and this section of the building stands on the former warehouse from that structure.
After demolition of the origional mill the site had several uses from shops to showrooms.
When the Cornmill Hotel was built it was decided that the structure should look like the former mill.
Unfortunatly after the closure of this fascinating hotel it’s future looks uncertain.
Windows are smashed and many have been boarded up.
Hopefully someone will step in and save the hotel before it is too late.
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thisisYourMail Submitted about 1 year ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
A very dirty weekend at city hotel
from the Hull Daily Mail/East Riding Mail Tuesday, November 11
It was a dirty job, but someone had to do it.
At least 80 tons of rubbish needed shifting from a recently vacated temporary travellers’ site in east Hull.
The travellers had spent four months camped on the car park of the former Cornmill Hotel in Mount Pleasant, overlooking one of the busiest road junctions in the city.
But with the travellers now gone, their waste remained.
Step forward a team from Little Weighton-based D&J Cleaning Ltd.
Having prepared the site for cleaning on Friday, yesterday they set about removing everything from empty gas cannisters to rotting food using lifting gear and a fleet of tankers.
Although high-profile because of its location, company director Dan Stephenson said it was just another job.
He said: “Clearing up dumped rubbish might not sound very pleasant, but it’s our bread and butter.
“There was asbestos on the site, so we had to be careful with that.
“Otherwise, it was just a case of cleaning up an awful lot of mess.”
The company specialises in waste removal and disposal, working for local councils, housing associations, private landlords and police forces across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
Its work includes cleaning up post-forensic investigation scenes, including murders and suicides.
Mr Stephenson said: “We have probably cleaned out about 40,000 properties in our time.
“Some of the sights we have seen, you would not believe.”
The travellers moved off the site after Hull City Council threatened legal action to end their illegal occupation of the car park.
The 60-bedroom hotel closed suddenly in February last year when the company running it was wound up.
The Mail understands it has new owners, who are looking to reopen the venue in the new year.
D&J Cleaning www.djcleaningltd.co.uk
Hull City Council www.hullcc.gov.uk
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theagitator Submitted about 1 year ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
I wonder where the Council Litter Police were hiding when the 80 tons of litter etc were being deposited at the Cornmill Hotel. Perhaps they were chasing young people for dropping sausage rolls & cigarette ends,(total weight approx 2 ozs) and letting foreign nationals litter with impunity. They also have yet to make their mark on litter deposits on Friday & Saturday nights in central Hull.
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yvonnebatten Submitted about 1 year ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
A big problem with the Cornmill was having no ‘entrance door’ on to the Holdernes Road-people would not make the long trek on foot round the back. It used to be really good when it first re-opened-but went ‘downhill’
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MikeCovell Submitted about 1 year ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
They used to have a large steel gate, just where the round glass windowed conference room stands, which would take you to the main desk, but most of the time, the bushes were overgrown, and access was difficult.
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YourMail Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
Hotel row
from the Advertiser Series Wednesday, May 6
People living near a derelict hotel in east Hull say the building has become a target for trouble. The Cornmill Hotel in Holderness Road closed in February 2007, and since then has been repeatedly targeted by vandals. It has also been set alight several times and is often used by the city’s homeless population. Neighbours of the once-popular 60-room hotel have said the trouble is making life a misery for them.
Tracey Evans, of Hull City Council’s area management committee, said solving the problems with the hotel had been assessed as a council priority. She said an abatement notice had been served on the firm that owns the site, which requires them to secure it.
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