HOUSING and holiday accommodation could feature at Barry Island after the Vale Council decided to re-market the old toilet block for the third time.

The Old Public Conveniences building, Nell’s Point, Barry Island, is being re-marketed with both a residential and tourism angle in mind and Henry Danter the man behind the resurrection of Barry Island Pleasure Park has said he is considering placing a bid.

Council officers believe a wider range of uses may be required to draw private sector interest in the Grade II listed building.

A report put before the Vale council’s cabinet, on Monday March 20, recommended adding “both holiday and private residential uses to the marketing document.”

The report said: “Barry Island has long suffered from a lack of holiday accommodation and a small number of units on this site would start to change that position.”

The report noted that Nell’s Point and the toilet block had been the subject of a marketing exercise in the summer of 2015, but the “preferred bid”, submitted by Warner Hotels, fell through after a funding gap was identified.

The report added, that a similar approach to the work which was carried out at the iconic Pumphouse building may be taken to improve the condition of the toilet block.

It said that a "structural enabling contract might be utilised to bring the building back into sound condition as this approach had been used in the early stages of marketing the Grade II listed Pumphouse in the Innovation Quarter to good effect and had resulted in private sector investment and re-use of that building.”

Barry Island Pleasure Park owner, Henry Danter said he was planning on making a bid for use of the building.

Mr Danter, who has 50 years of property development experience, said he would like to create a tourist friendly area with restaurant and parking rather than housing.

"We want to make Barry great, but not with residential," he said.

Marcus Goldsworthy, Head of Regeneration and Planning for the Vale of Glamorgan Council, said: “At a cabinet meeting on Monday, March 20 a report regarding the marketing of the former Public Conveniences at Nell's Point, Barry Island, was discussed, with the report seeking authority to re-market for leisure, tourism, and/or enabling residential uses.

“Authority was granted to re-market the building, with the council now to work on the content of the marketing documents and methodology under which any bids would be assessed, with the aim of disposing to the bidder that best meets the required criteria for a quality scheme.”