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4.4 4.5 5.0 5.1 (even in these difficult economic times) and demand at the two existing Premier Inn hotels (at Phoenix Retail Park and at Glasgow Airport) demonstrate the potential for a further hotel in the Paisley area. Whitbread is keen to develop the potential of the area through the development of a further hotel, and is particularly mindful of the ongoing development at Hillington Business Park and planned development at Glasgow Airport including the terminal extension as part of the overall Master Plan for the Airport. The company does not have the potential to acquire ownership of any other site for a nominal fee as is the case in terms of the application site. There is no room for further expansion of the Glasgow Airport Premier Inn or the Glasgow Paisley Premier Inn at Phoenix Park. Those are the only two Premier Inns in the Renfrewshire Council area. The company has no intention of acquiring a site elsewhere in the area for a 46 bed hotel (see Section 5 below) because the acquisition costs of a new site would be prohibitive in terms of the development of a budget hotel of this size. All Premier Inn sites are required to be financially viable on their own merits and, if costs of land acquisitions have to be factored into the development of a 46 bed hotel (as in the case of the application site), this would render the whole development unviable. If planning permission is not forthcoming on this site, the opportunity for the development of a new hotel in the Paisley area will not be realised and the potential investment in terms of money and jobs will be lost to the area. The option to acquire this land to enable the development of Premier Inn at this site expires in mid-2010, after which the opportunity may well be lost forever. ALTERNATIVE SITES Council officers suggested, at the August meeting, that as an alternative to development of the application site Whitbread, should consider the purchase of an alternative site elsewhere, either in the defined town centre or an existing vacant hotel. For the reasons outlined above, Whitbread have no intention of acquiring a new site elsewhere in the area for the building of a 46 bed hotel when they have the 10 Walsingham Planning, Brandon House, King Street, Knutsford, Cheshire WA16 6DX March 2010
5.1.1 5.1.2 option to purchase the application site for a peppercorn amount as part of the DLL Agreement. However, for the purpose of this report, and to assist officers in the deliberations of this application, two alternative sites in the areas have been considered, as suggested by the officers. Former Arnotts Site This is a large site (3.92 acres) in the centre of Paisley, including a local landmark building – the previous Arnotts department store. An outline planning application ( reference number 09/0528 EP) has been approved for a food store, retail and residential, with associated car parking involving part conversion of the Arnotts building and part new-build as a major regeneration scheme. The site is now under offer to a developer with the contract expected to be signed imminently. It is understood that the residential element of the scheme is on hold because of current market conditions and it is possible that the planning permission may be amended, or a new planning application submitted, to include offices within the scheme. This is a complicated site which will involve lengthy negotiations and discussions on the details of the scheme and there is no planning consent for a hotel as part of this development. There would be considerable acquisition costs or on-going leasehold costs and this, coupled with the constraints and complexity of the development, would render the site of no interest to Whitbread for a 46 bed Premier Inn. The Purple Hotel, Renfrew Road, King’s Inch Drive, Renfrew This is a recently built hotel, which it is understood, is vacant and unused. It is situated about 2 miles from the application site just off Junction 26 of the M8. The acquisition costs coupled with operational doubts as to whether it would “fit” the Premier Inn brand in terms of room sixes, restaurant etc., would mean that it is not viable for Whitbread to consider pursuing interest in this property. Moreover, its location outside the town centre, adjacent to a motorway junction, is comparable with that of the application site. 11 Walsingham Planning, Brandon House, King Street, Knutsford, Cheshire WA16 6DX March 2010
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