Hotel chain plans 85-bed comple at Northern Ireland site used in High Rise film
A former leisure centre used as the backdrop to the film adaptation of JG Ballard’s novel High Rise is set to be demolished and replaced with a Premier Inn.
Ards and North Down Borough council in Northern Ireland is due to consider a planning application for a £7 million, 85-bed hotel on the site of the former Bangor Castle Leisure Centre which closed three years ago.
The centre features prominently in the adaptation of Ballard’s 1975 story of a malfunctioning society, the film of which was released earlier this month and stars Tom Hiddleston.
Boasting four pools, the Hugo Simpson-designed leisure centre served the Bangor community for four decades after it opened in the 1970s. When opened the centre was seen as a state-of-the-art facility and one of the first in Northern Ireland to have four pools.
But it has fallen into disuse since being replaced with a nearby £38 million swimming and leisure complex called Aurora.
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