Manchester Airport Premier Inn moves forward
MIX Manchester has lodged proposals for a 276-key hotel off Chicago Avenue, part of the £1bn advanced manufacturing masterplan.
Whitbread, which owns the Premier Inn brand, announced its intention to open its largest ever Northern hotel at Manchester Airport earlier this year.
Now, a planning application for the nine-storey scheme has been submitted.
Designed by 5plus Architects, the project forms part of the wider £1bn MIX Manchester campus – a 2m sq ft multi-use science and innovation campus.
The 60-acre masterplan features a hotel quarter where the Premier Inn, the recently announced Dakota hotel, and the recently completed tribe Hotel are located.
To learn more about the Manchester Airport Premier Inn, search for reference number 141662/FO/2024 on Manchester City Council’s planning portal.
ROC as the structural engineer. DFC is the fire consultant. Planit is the landscape architect. The project team also includes M&E and BREEAM expert CPW and acoustics consultant Sandy Brown. Rihbell is the project manager and Atkins Realis is the cost consultant.
Absolutely no need for it to look this poor. Someone needs to start getting a grip on this crap. Everyone is sick of it.
By Anonymous
Whatever happened to that Airport City and all those 1000s of new jobs and offices and THG new office and the green bridge etc??
By Mr Magoo
A necessary pivot, according to those behind the scheme. Here’s the story we wrote about MIX Manchester’s emergence from Airport City back in May: https://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/airport-city-prepares-for-take-off-with-new-name-new-masterplan/
By Julia Hatmaker
This is not just one of worst airports in the world according to passenger reviews it’s also got the ugliest and worst designed buildings of any major airport.
By Barbara Roche
How many bedrooms does a ‘276-key’ hotel have?
By Gum
There will be a good little cluster of hotels here, it would be good to include them in the visitor economy tax – easy money for MCC
By CP
Better than nothing
By Anonymous
It’s another boring box full of little boxes. How unoriginal.
By Anonymous
Barbara Roche, all your comments in PNW are negative towards any proposed development in Manchester. Surely you must see some positivity in all the investment which has taken place in Greater Manchester over the last 30 years?
By Anonymous
Raising the bar in hotel design. Not
By Anonymous
It’s nice to see some humans on a street as part of the plans.
I live quite close to the airport and it’s amazing how unfriendly the whole area is to pedestrians. The whole ethos is, pay over the odds to get here by train, or let us really shaft you with parking charges, or don’t bother coming.
By Anonymous
It’s a Premier Inn. At an airport. What do people expect – the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
By Anonymous
As if it’s a lot to ask for a decent hotel design at an airport
By Hanging Gardens of Babble On