LAST year, Didcot A, the coal-fired power station with six 99-metre cooling towers, celebrated its 40th birthday.

But Didcot A is due to close in 2015 and the plan is to demolish all six of the towers.

Conservationists are already celebrating, but business consultant Noel Hodson is urging power station bosses to think again.

His futuristic plan to position a hotel on top of three of the towers is unlikely to ever happen.

But Mr Hodson’s proposal will certainly get people talking about what should happen to the site when the power station closes.

Mr Hodson’s vision features the towers staying put and he is urging station owners, RWE npower, to get members of the public to submit their own ideas for the site.

Although the consultant’s vision is an outlandish one, he is making the valid point that now is a good time to plan for the site’s redevelopment in 2015 so that something positive can be achieved.

It might all seem ‘pie in the sky’ but one day a top-class hotel could be built in Didcot.