LAKE District planners have approved a retrospective application to demolish and rebuild the top storey of a tower at the Windermere Hydro Hotel.
National park authority members heard the tower was partially demolished late last year for health and safety reasons and the new structure - which has a steel frame and rendered blockwork - was virtually identical to the original.
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