But an application has now been entered by owner Hewitt Property Holdings Ltd to turn it back into a guest house. But he said the applicant ‘regretfully’ did not apply for planning permission for the change of use, ‘mistakenly believing’ that they did not need it because the Regent Hotel Group, which the planning permission for use as an HMO referred, no longer existed. Mr Winter therefore asked on behalf of the applicant that planning permission be granted for a change of use to a hotel. A letter of support was written by Rob Hunt of Ferndale Lodge, an adjacent guest house. They said the difference had been ‘remarkable’ since operating as a guest house.