Premier Inn eyes fourth Manchester city centre site
The hotel operator is in advanced talks with developer Premcor about running a 229-bedroom venue on Rochdale Road.
Premier Inn, which operates three hotels in Manchester city centre currently, is in talks to sign a leasehold for its fourth.
A spokesperson for Premier Inn said: “We are having meaningful conversations with the developer on the potential for Premier Inn to occupy the site.
“The developer is working to discharge the conditions of their planning consent alongside progressing discussions with us.”
Premcor secured consent from Manchester City Council for the hotel in October 2020.
Designed by Jon Matthews Architects and reaching 10 storeys, the hotel will sit on a site between Moda Living’s Angel Gardens and the recently completed Hampton by Hilton.
Premcor bought the site from Realty Estates in January 2020 for an undisclosed sum. Realty Estates had won consent for a 15-storey apartment scheme, designed by architects Hodder + Partners, prior to the sale.
Under Premcor’s plans, the L-shaped building will feature a ground floor restaurant, bar and reception area.
WSP is the planning consultant for the project and Gardiner & Theobald is the project manager and quantity surveyor.
Any further Premier Inn activity in Manchester should involve the immediate reduction to rubble of the grotesque “Manchester City Centre (Arena/Printworks) hotel” on Victoria Bridge Street.
By Tom
Does this mean the Angel Pub is at risk of being knocked down?
By Anonymous
This is good news as a hotel is a better use of space on a busy road than a block of flats. Hopefully they’ll redesign the block to add windows to the side elevations.
By Dr B
Tom, that building is in Salford
By Andrew
Sadly.this building will completely eclipse the apartments nearby which rise to 7 stories and ruin the aspect of the lovely old baptist church. As usual local people who live nearby have no say and no influence over greedy developers. Wel premier Inn just lost one customer not that they will care much
By Josh
Yep, more overdevelopment, more windswept shadowed streets killing any possibility of vibrancy, what a mess we are making
By Dan
No balconies on this hotel 🙁
By Balcony warrior
Goodbye to any sunlight in any of the front facing buildings in the northern angel development. Glad my rental contract runs out in the summer. Sure instead of hiking the rents another couple of hundred quid when it renews they will take this eyesore into consideration and lower them… or not !
By Jamie