Plans for a hotel on the site of a town centre bar have been downscaled due to fears it would obscure a listed building.
Elysium Group, owner of River Lodge bar and restaurant, in Middleborough, Colchester, want to create a four-storey hotel complex on the site.
A 74-bedroom development had originally been mooted, but a new planning application includes only 43 bedrooms.
Application agent Blue Sky Planning, acting on behalf of Elysium, warned the current business was not sustainable.
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