Millionaire residents in one of the UK’s most expensive postcodes are fighting plans to bulldoze a historic hotel down in what they have called a ‘disgusting act of vandalism’.
The Haven Hotel has stood at the entrance to Poole Harbour in Dorset since 1880 and was one of the first properties to be built on the exclusive sandy peninsula.
The Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi used its lounge in 1898 to pioneer his wireless telegraphy experiments, marking the site as the birthplace of radio.
But wealthy locals in Sandbanks, Poole – where the average home sells for £1.5million – have been fighting plans by
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