This is on the Harbour side in Torquay, the centre of the English Riviera and the site of two of Torquay's most famous land marks, The Clock Tower and The Queens Hotel.The Clock Tower you can see, the Queens Hotel you can't. The Queens has been empty and the building deteriorating for some years now. The owner wants to turn it from a hotel to holiday apartments but the local council were reluctant to grant planing permission. So the owner did nothing and the building became an eyesore. Now it is covered with plastic sheeting, not to protect any builders from the weather or passers by from falling materials but to make it look nicer. If you come down on holiday it will look like building work is about to start but for those of us who live here it will look like this for months or even years yet. The nature of the eyesore has changed but is still there.
Scaffolding by ISCA
