Park House, where Princess Diana was born and lived until 14, has been vacant since its hotel for disabled people closed during the pandemic. Leonard Cheshire Disability has proposed ending the redevelopment and exiting its lease with Sandringham Estate.
The late Queen gifted Park House to Leonard Cheshire Disability in 1987, and the charity turned it into a hotel for people with disabilities and their carers. Its September 2019 plan called for £2.3 million in redevelopment spending, matched by the same amount for further investment. The charity says the plan was deferred during the pandemic; it cites shifted resources and fundraising, significantly higher costs, barriers faced by disabled people worldwide and ongoing Covid uncertainty as reasons it cannot justify the outlay.
Photos obtained by the Mirror after the closure show overgrown grass, peeling paint on the house and a shed roof that has caved in.
