Hotel Planning Win
February 2011
Januarys persistence and professionalism has paid dividends twice over recently as two developers won planning permission for hotels in
Eastern Gate Properties has gained permission for a 219-bedroom, five-storey hotel on the corner of Newmarket Road and Coldham’s Lane, to be occupied by Travelodge whilst O’Callaghan Hotels will shortly be starting work on a 157-bedroom, seven-storey building on Station Road.
Both proposals have been the subject of lengthy debate between the developers, the Council and local residents, and Januarys’ Director of Planning Colin Brown said he and his clients were delighted with the outcomes.
“We’ve worked extremely hard to ensure that the approved designs meet the technical, legal and logistical needs of both sites.
“Given their respective locations, neither of these applications was ever likely to prove straightforward and so it proved. We had to overcome a number of issues before arriving at solutions that were acceptable both to our clients and the Council, but fortunately we had teams with sufficient experience and innovative thinking to enable us to do just that.
“There’s no doubt that in their different ways, these are two excellent schemes. Both will provide jobs for the area and in addition the Travelodge will help to regenerate a degraded site.
“Eastern Gate has also pledged to provide land for highway improvements.
“The hotel in