A "WISH list" of improvements to attract more visitors to Burnley and Pendle's only youth hostel has been drawn up, after the building was saved from the axe.
The Youth Hostel Association put the building, in Earby, up for sale earlier this year because of dwindling visitor numbers, but Pendle Council bought the building after a huge campaign by users to save it.
The council is leasing the building back to the YHA at a peppercorn rent, and will be spending £20,000 on refurbishments.
Community engagement officer Vaughan Jones said the council would be working out the best way to spend the money in the building, which it bought for around £180,000, before marketing it all over the world in the council's visitor guide, which will go out in the spring.
There are also plans to hire the building out to business groups during the winter months.
The building has strong connections to founder member of the Independent Labour Party Katharine Bruce Glasier, who lived there from 1922 until her death in 1950.
East Lancashire's only other youth hostel is in Slaidburn.
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