Whitbread, the parent company of Premier Inn, the UK鈥檚 largest hotel company, has announced plans to build a new 82-bedroom Premier Inn hotel in Chichester.
It will be the company鈥檚 second hotel in the cathedral city.聽
The site on Bognor Road, which was acquired from Hanbury Properties, is next to the main A27 / A259 road junction and complements an existing 83-room Premier Inn at Gate Leisure Park to the southwest of Chichester city centre.
The site has been bought fully serviced and ready for construction to start this spring.
Hanbury Properties director James Belbin explained: 鈥淭he site was a former World War II fuel depot that required significant investment, including full remediation, a new slip lane and traffic light junction off the A259, bus stop, a 220-metre estate road, and services under the A27 to facilitate development 鈥� so it鈥檚 not been the most straightforward site to deliver.聽聽聽聽
鈥淭his sale represents the culmination of all that hard work.聽 It鈥檚 been a pleasure working with all the acquisition team at Premier Inn to bring this site forward, and it鈥檚 great to know that this hotel will create valuable jobs and help contribute positively to the local community in the years to come.鈥澛犅�
Whitbread acquisitions manager Louise Woodruff said: 鈥淧urchasing the site freehold shows how flexible we can be to bring high-quality locations like this one into our pipeline, and our in-house development team is itching to get started and begin constructing our newest hotel on the south coast later this year.鈥�