Hotel plan for fire ravaged Belleisle House in doubt after no partner is found for £12.5 million project

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South Ayrshire Council will have to come up with a plan B for fire-ravaged Belleisle House after no partner was found for its £12.5m plan to restore the historic building as a hotel.The B-Listed building went up in flames in 2019 after a worker's blowtorch accidentally set fire to the roof.The fire happened as the council were exercising an option to repurchase the building from the owner John Campbell who had bought it from them for £300,000 in 2012.While works had been carried out on the property, SAC argued that it hadn't completed works it had promised and the council was able to buy it back at the same price it had sold for seven years earlier.Having taken over ownership of the now gutted building, the council had looked at possible