Dan Whelan
Councillors praised Create Developments for the changes it made to a previously refused scheme and voted unanimously to approve the company’s plans for a 147-bedroom Hampton by Hilton hotel off Barton Road in Stretford.
Blackpool-based Create submitted scaled-back plans for a seven-storey hotel in December after Trafford Council’s planning committee had turned down a larger iteration of the scheme earlier in the year.
The original proposals mooted a nine-storey, 197-bedroom hotel, but the developer was forced back to the drawing board amid concerns over car parking provision and the scale of the scheme.
Create subsequently slashed the number of rooms by 50 and reduced the number of floors by two. The building’s footprint was also reduced, from 12,500 sq ft to 10,000 sq ft, while the number of parking spaces was increased to 147 from 127.
Planner: Iceni Projects
In December, Blackpool-based Create submitted scaled-back plans for a seven-storey Hampton by Hilton hotel off Barton Road in Stretford, after Trafford Council had refused a larger iteration of the scheme earlier in the year.
The original proposals mooted a nine-storey, 197-bedroom hotel, but concerns over car parking provision and the scale of the scheme forced the developer back to the drawing board.
The refusal followed objections from developers Peel L&P and now-defunct Intu Properties due to concerns over the suitability of its location.
Since then, Create has slashed the number of rooms by 50 and reduced the number of floors by two. The building’s footprint has also been reduced, from 12,500 sq ft to 10,000 sq ft, while the number of parking spaces has been increased to 147 from 127.