News: Parking concerns raised again over Rotherham hotel expansion plans
Concerns have been raised about the impact of restrictions on the car park at a Rotherham hotel where operators want to expand.
Rothbiz reported in 2024 that Premier Inn had identified a "considerable demand" for additional accommodation at its Rotherham East hotel in the Brecks area.
Eight years after the operator secured approval for a similar scheme, the latest proposal, drawn up by Walshingham Planning, is for a 4,800 sq ft two storey extension to the east of the current hotel. It would provide an additional 16 bedrooms but two current rooms would be lost to create a new corridor. It would take the total rooms at the site from 62 to 76.
2016 plans for an extension to the east was for a net increase of 21 bedrooms over three floors. It was approved despite objections regarding car parking and the impact on nearby businesses. However, the scheme was never built out.
The latest proposed development would lead to a net reduction of 15 car parking spaces but it is the recent introduction of time limited restrictions and charges at the car park that has led to Rotherham's highways department raising concerns.
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Nigel Davey, Highway Development Management Engineer at Rotherham Council explained that: "Since this [2016] application was approved, the owners of the hotel have introduced time limited restrictions on the car park(s) for those visitors to the restaurant, and additionally, there is now a car park charge for those visitors to the hotel. I note that the surrounding roads, with the exception of Bawtry Road, do not have any restrictions preventing parking.
"I have consulted with colleagues within the Council’s Transportation Unit, and they have indicated that the Council have received complaints made by the general public, regarding parking on Brecks Lane, which is adjacent to the application site."
Whitbread, which operates the hotel and adjoining pub / restaurant, has said that it has no intentions of amending the parking restrictions.
Highways are already concerned about parking on nearby residential roads and on the busy junction of Brecks Lane and Bawtry Road.
Davey concludes: "I am therefore concerned, that the effect of the car park management restrictions that have been introduced in conjunction with the application for the additional bedrooms at the hotel resulting in a loss of car park spaces should the application be approved, will result in additional vehicles parking on adjacent side roads, potentially having a detrimental effect on road safety and the amenity of nearby residents."
Premier Inn website
Images: Google Maps
Rothbiz reported in 2024 that Premier Inn had identified a "considerable demand" for additional accommodation at its Rotherham East hotel in the Brecks area.
Eight years after the operator secured approval for a similar scheme, the latest proposal, drawn up by Walshingham Planning, is for a 4,800 sq ft two storey extension to the east of the current hotel. It would provide an additional 16 bedrooms but two current rooms would be lost to create a new corridor. It would take the total rooms at the site from 62 to 76.
2016 plans for an extension to the east was for a net increase of 21 bedrooms over three floors. It was approved despite objections regarding car parking and the impact on nearby businesses. However, the scheme was never built out.
The latest proposed development would lead to a net reduction of 15 car parking spaces but it is the recent introduction of time limited restrictions and charges at the car park that has led to Rotherham's highways department raising concerns.
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Nigel Davey, Highway Development Management Engineer at Rotherham Council explained that: "Since this [2016] application was approved, the owners of the hotel have introduced time limited restrictions on the car park(s) for those visitors to the restaurant, and additionally, there is now a car park charge for those visitors to the hotel. I note that the surrounding roads, with the exception of Bawtry Road, do not have any restrictions preventing parking.
"I have consulted with colleagues within the Council’s Transportation Unit, and they have indicated that the Council have received complaints made by the general public, regarding parking on Brecks Lane, which is adjacent to the application site."
Whitbread, which operates the hotel and adjoining pub / restaurant, has said that it has no intentions of amending the parking restrictions.
Highways are already concerned about parking on nearby residential roads and on the busy junction of Brecks Lane and Bawtry Road.
Davey concludes: "I am therefore concerned, that the effect of the car park management restrictions that have been introduced in conjunction with the application for the additional bedrooms at the hotel resulting in a loss of car park spaces should the application be approved, will result in additional vehicles parking on adjacent side roads, potentially having a detrimental effect on road safety and the amenity of nearby residents."
Premier Inn website
Images: Google Maps
19 comments:
I think Whitbred's thinking was: add in some penalty payments, and it will show the car park isn't needed. Instead, it's done what critics of this scheme said it would do, from day one which is force parking elsewhere.
It will be interesting to see what happens with this. I suspect RMBC may choose to intervene, possibly by adding more double yellow lines to the near by roads, which is likely to backfire and reduce visitors to the pub.
Then that will be on Whitbreds surely. Can't see how the council is to blame on this.
Hotel dose well with railway contractors,know many who stay there when working around area.
Lowering the tone then
Some of my best friends are navvies. And we need them to keep leaves and the wrong kind of snow off the railway lines.
What it dose need is a large does of luck
Dose?
What's sose for the gose is sose for the gander.
You have friends? Are you sure?
Your wife can confirm it.
No need for that old boy.
Yes, I have one or two.
Says the man who couldn't even get an on-line friend
My wife? Are you assuming my gender/sexuality?
And your species...
A species more evolved than you then.
He/she/they is probably alien. Or maybe just objectionable
One of a trio of neanderthals on here.
Only three? They must be prolific posters then.
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