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Pictured: Knoll House Hotel.<br />
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The new owners of Enid Blyton's favourite hotel have come in for lashings of criticism over their plans to turn it into a five star resort.<br />
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The £60m proposals for the Knoll House Hotel in Studland, Dorset, involved building a series of apartment blocks behind the original hotel facade.<br />
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But local planning officials feared the design would have made the countryside retreat look more like a prison camp and so rejected the scheme.

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Pic: MaxWillcock/BNPS

Pictured: Knoll House Hotel.

The new owners of Enid Blyton's favourite hotel have come in for lashings of criticism over their plans to turn it into a five star resort.

The £60m proposals for the Knoll House Hotel in Studland, Dorset, involved building a series of apartment blocks behind the original hotel facade.

But local planning officials feared the design would have made the countryside retreat look more like a prison camp and so rejected the scheme.