The Star: May 12, 2022

The Star Thursday May 12 2022
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NEWS
• By Mick Jensen
PROMINENT Lyttelton building
the British Hotel has a new owner
and he plans to restore it to its
original status.
Roland Logan has purchased
the building from previous
owners Rebecca Lovell-Smith and
Christian Carruthers on an as-is,
where-is condition.
Work on restoring the 1940s
building will begin straight away.
It will be completed in two
stages with stage one involving
the reinstating of the parapet,
new roof and guttering and the
replacement of glass on the top
floor.
The second stage will require
consents and will involve some
redesign, fire upgrades, toilets
in the basement and earthquake
strengthening.
Logan said the restoration
project was well worth doing
and he wanted to reinstate the
building to how it once was.
It would include restoring the
five hotel rooms upstairs.
He and some mates would
work on stage one, which was
expected to take three months.
He hoped to have the project
wrapped up entirely by early next
year.
Logan said he was a ‘‘handson’’
person, who didn’t consider
himself to be a businessman as
such, but rather a supporter of
heritage.
‘‘I am frustrated by the way
heritage is largely ignored in this
country and I want to do my
bit to preserve something
here.’’
Another reason he is taking on
the project is because he has been
denied permission to move the
centrally-located NG building
on Madras St to a new site for
restoration.
Instead that building will now
be demolished to make way for
Christchurch’s new stadium.
‘‘In some ways this purchase
is my consolation for not being
able to tackle the other project,’’
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PAST LIVES: The British Hotel before it was rebuilt in the 1940s. Below: As it stands following earthquake repairs.
he said.
The British Hotel is located on
the corner of Gladstone Quay
and Oxford St and is one of just
a handful of old commercial
buildings remaining in Lyttelton
since the quakes.
It currently houses a basement
bar called The Basement, shops
and a tattoo parlour. Tenancy
leases remain in place.
The brick building was built to
replace the original Richardson’s
British Hotel and has a rating
valuation of $385,000.
Logan did not want to reveal
what he paid for the building
or what he intends spending to
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