Huddersfield’s Premier Inn could be about to get another 22 bedrooms.

Premier Inn’s parent company Whitbread has shut down The Aspley pub and restaurant next door and plans to extend the hotel taking its number of rooms from 52 to 74.

The Aspley, which operated under the Table Table brand, was one of more than 100 ‘lower returning’ restaurants which Whitbread decided to close and turn into hotel rooms.

Premier Inn, which overlooks Aspley Basin on the edge of the town centre, will continue to take access from St Andrew’s Road and will have 106 parking spaces, up from around 90 now.

Under plans submitted to Kirklees Council the extension would also include a breakfast room for hotel guests only. It wouldn’t be open to the wider public.

 

 

The hotel is in a busy location for traffic but a document submitted with the planning application says: “Whilst the proposals would increase the number of guest bedrooms, any additional trips to the site would be offset by the fact that the separate branded restaurant would be removed.

“This would also compensate for the additional demands for car parking from external visitors that the branded restaurant currently generates above those from hotel guests.”

The hotel will increase the number of hotel rooms available close to Huddersfield town centre.

The George Hotel is about to become a 91-bedroomed Radisson RED and there are also plans with Kirklees Council to create hotel rooms in a “redundant basement” across St George’s Square from the George Hotel in Britannia Buildings.

The grade II*-listed building currently houses Lala’s restaurant, a dental clinic and 24 apartments used as ‘aparthotels.’

S M Real Estate (Residential) Ltd is seeking permission to create 12 bedrooms.

Huddersfield Civic Society has called for a more detailed heritage assessment given the building’s historic nature.

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