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Part of a hotel on Dorset's exclusive Sandbanks peninsula could collapse. A structural report says steel work on two wings of the Haven Hotel - which stands at the entrance of Poole Harbour - is 'badly corroded" that "structural failure is possible'. This report was written in January 2017 and was only made public last month. It goes on to say that that part of the hotel is 'unlikely to last much longer in an environment that is as corrosive as the marine environment.' The original hotel dates back to 1887, with the south and west wings added in 1927. The hotel is already the centre of a planning row after its owner applied to demolish it and replace it with flats.