The hotel had been scaled down from earlier plans for 16 storeys. Credit: via planning documents

Hotel developer and Trafford to lock horns again at appeal 

For the second time in as many years, Acre Manchester is bidding to overturn the refusal of its plans to build a Novotel on Chester Road. 

Trafford Council rejected the developer’s plans for a 169-bedroom hotel in March this year, having already successfully defended its decision to refuse a larger iteration of the project at appeal in 2021. 

Following the first appeal, Acre, part of the Westcombe Group, had submitted revised proposals for a scaled-back scheme. 

Acre’s revised plans saw the scheme shrink from 16 to 10 storeys and had 21 fewer rooms. 

Like the earlier proposal, the updated scheme included the demolition of the distinctive tinted office block at 701 Chester Road. 

Trafford refused this plan against the recommendation of planning officers, prompting the developer to lodge an appeal. 

The project team for the scheme featured Stride Treglown as the architect, planner Brian Madge, Capita, M&E consultant WSP, Curtins as structural engineer, JGA Fire, SK Transport, Abricon and heritage architect Stephen Levrant. 

If you want to find out more about the project you can do so by searching reference 104811/FUL/21 on Trafford Council’s planning portal.

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Don’t need more hotels, need more places for people to live. If Manchester United want a hotel, they’ve got lots of land.

By Anthony

Horrendous design. Let’s hope it doesn’t get built.

By John

A perfectly fine proposal. Trafford’s planning committee is clearly utterly dysfunctional. They will lose once again on appeal.

By Anonymous

I hope this gets built. This area is an embarrassment at the moment to the thousands of people that visit the stadia every fortnight. We need more high density uses in areas like this.

By Eyesore

I don’t think thats the scheme that went in for Planning approval!

By Anonymous

No, we don’t need more hotels and the proposal doesn’t include parking which us already a nightmare for residents. Show some consideration and common sense for once.

By Janet

Find it strange how after engineering congestion on Chester and Talbot Roads, Trafford Council didn’t opt to grant planning permission as they clearly have no regard whatsoever for road users and football supporters whose journeys have been greatly increased by the ridiculous extra wide cycle lanes designed solely to create traffic problems with a view to making us pay to use roads that the public has already paid for.

By Red h

It can only be good for the area both for jobs and upgrading the respectability of the town

By DM

I really dont understand why Trafford are refusing this, they are so short sighted!

By Digbuth O'Hooligan

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