The "inclinator" will provide access to a beach-side restaurant

The 42-bedroom, four-storey hotel and conference centre will be built on the site of the old Rocklands hotel in Newquay.

The design includes an inclined lift to transport guests down a cliff to a restaurant at Tolcarne Beach.

Newquay councillors rejected the plans, but the scheme was given unanimous approval by Restormel Borough Council.

Hotel design

The so-called Blue Fin project is likely to be built by the end of 2005.

Newquay Town Council claimed the plans were an over-development of the site.

Town councillor Bob Irons had described the hotel design as a "glorified block of flats".

Shirley Polmounter, a member of the Regeneration Committee at Restormel, said: "We have been losing bed space in Newquay and this will be some quality bed space which is very, very welcome."