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Churchill Retirement Living has secured planning for a new development of retirement apartments at Fawlty Towers.<\/p>

The Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay was where John Cleese and the Monty Python team stayed in 1973 while filming \u2018Monty Python\u2019s Flying Circus\u2019 and it unwittingly became the inspiration for the hit sitcom Fawlty Towers.<\/p>

Cleese\u2019s character - neurotic hotel owner Basil Fawlty - was based on the hotel\u2019s former owner, Donald Sinclair, whom Cleese called \u2018the most marvellously rude man I\u2019ve ever met.\u2019<\/p>

Fawlty Towers went on to become an iconic show and was voted as the greatest television programme of all time by the British Film Institute in 2000, despite only airing for 12 episodes.<\/p>

The 41-bedroom Gleneagles Hotel ceased trading earlier this year, with local planning officers noting that the hotel wasn\u2019t commercially viable.<\/p>

Despite various plans to demolish the hotel over the past decade, it was ultimately the plans put forward by Churchill Retirement Living that gained planning permission.<\/p>

Andrew Burgess, Planning Director for Planning Issues said:<\/p>

\u201cThe original hotel will be demolished, but in its place will be 32 apartments, for those aged 60 and above, built to our high design and quality. Like its former guests, we\u2019re sure new owners of the apartments will appreciate the development\u2019s brilliant location and perhaps have a laugh at its quirky history.<\/em><\/p>

\u201cWe know how much the site means to people, and once construction starts we\u2019ll be sure to produce something that Basil would be proud of.\u201d<\/em><\/p>

Redevelopment of the Gleneagles Hotel site will be scheduled for completion in early 2017. It will follow the same highly successful pattern of all Churchill developments, providing quality, secure, self-contained homes with beautiful gardens.<\/p>

Owners have the benefits of a Lodge Manager, 24 hour care line, Owners\u2019 Lounge, Guest Suite and laundry room.<\/p>

For more information on our development in Torquay, please click here<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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