Car park proposed while Blackpool hotel plans fleshed out
Fragrance Group wants to deliver spaces for 103 vehicles on the site of the former St Chads Hotel while detailed designs for a £30m hotel are worked up and a globally recognised occupier secured.
Singapore-based Fragrance Group was granted permission to build a 143-bedroom hotel on Blackpool’s Promenade last year.
St Chads Hotel, as well as Lyric Hotel and Regency Apartments, have already been knocked down to pave the way for a new six-storey hotel.
However, work on the four-star replacement, designed by Falconer Chester Hall, might not start for another two years.
Fragrance Group is seeking permission to use the site as a surface level car park while work to firm up designs and secure an operator continue.
An application for the car park has been submitted to Blackpool Council. Documents lodged with that application state that the car park would “provide a beneficial ‘meanwhile’ use while the applicant develops detailed designs for a high-quality hotel.
“The applicant remains committed to delivery of a hotel that will benefit the area and wider Blackpool economy.”
Elsewhere in the North West, Fragrance Group has recently overseen the restoration of the Municipal Buildings in Liverpool to create a 179-bedroom hotel.
