Caernarfon Travelodge expansion proposed
Gwynedd Council will consider a change of use application that seeks to add 25 keys to the hotel, which sits on a dock alongside the Menai Strait.
Occupying Block C of Victoria Dock, the plans aim to increase the hotel’s capacity to 94 rooms without altering the building’s footprint.
Applicant WJ Developments’ application for part of the ground, first, and second floors proposes making space by reorganising vacant areas found across the building.
The addition of three bedrooms to the ground floor, 14 bedrooms to the first, and eight bedrooms to the second floor would provide 25 extra rooms.
Wake Morely Architects has been charged with designing the extension, which includes the creation of a lightwell through a vacant interior unit from the ground floor to the roof.
This lightwell will provide natural light to previously windowless rooms, which the applicant believes is the reason for the block’s lack of long-term office tenants.
Access to the Travelodge hotel, which currently hosts 69 bedrooms, is from the ground floor, and reception is located on the building’s first floor.
The existing three-storey mixed-use building was erected in 2007. Travelodge took up residence in the building in 2008 with a 59-bed hotel, which was then extended in 2010.
Office units one and two on the ground floor will be unaffected by the change of use application.
To view the application, use the planning reference C25/0233/14/LL on Gwynedd Council’s planning portal.
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By Rocco F