If you follow the comments here on HoylakeJunction.com you’ll already know that the owners of the Kings Gap Hotel have submitted revised plans for Hoylake’s main hotel.
The owners Sanquine Hospitality were featured in the local newspapers before Christmas expressing frustration at having to submit revised development plans (see this post from last November). But they have evidently followed procedure and submitted the new plans for approval.
I’ve not fully looked at all the planning documents but I gather the developers want to have a Marco Pierre White branded restaurant on the complex. They’ve done this at other north west locations already.
As plans have also been submitted for a boutique hotel around the corner on Meols Drive, Hoylake may soon offer visitors more accommodation than it has done for some years.
I’ll let you know the outcome of the planning application in due course.
Your comments are welcome.
The hotel will be a Hoilday Inn Express. The footprint is slightly smaller than the original plans. There will be no function room. A normal, decent quality, budget hotel.
Good by me, especially if MPW brings his name to the restaurant (which will be a separate business)… this could be another good catalyst for regeneration and draw in other names.
We just need the retail offering to improve, so that the visitors spend some of their money here. Unbelievably, Hoylake has the fifth highest vacancy rates in Wirral and is the lowest performer in Wirral in the UK retail rankings. We have to turn this situation round…
Planning permission now granted!