Skindles

Barratt Homes and the National Grid then secured an option for most of the site for a joint development project involving housing and a hotel.

South Bucks council adopted a residential-led development brief in July 2013 but argued that it would prefer Skindles Hotel itself to be renovated; any demolition proposals would need to be "robustly justified".

[5] By summer 2013, the hotel's condition had begun to fall further into disrepair, with parts of the roof beginning to collapse under the repeated weathering caused by the recent hard winters that hit the UK.

[6] Demolition of Skindles and clearance of the surrounding area started around 18 October 2015 to make way for a housing development of nearly 300 homes, office space, a restaurant and walkways along the Thames.

[7] During the First World War, the popular Café de la Commerce des Houblons in Poperinge was nicknamed Skindles, after the hotel, by the British officers who patronised it.