Whitbread and Olympian Homes get the go ahead to redevelop landmark Bristol City Centre hotel

Premier Inn Bristol City Centre (Haymarket) hotel — Photo by Whitbread PLC

Student accommodation and co-living homes will be delivered on the site of the Bristol City Centre (Haymarket) Premier Inn
Redevelopment will replace end-of-life 20-storey hotel building with two new buildings of 18 and 28 storeys
Masterplan sets aside two thirds of the site for public open space and creates a new, safe pedestrian route connecting Bristol Bus station with Broadmead
20% of the co-living homes will be at affordable Local Housing Allowance rents

Whitbread PLC, the UK's largest hotel business and owner of Premier Inn, and its development partner Olympian Homes have secured planning consent from Bristol City Council to redevelop the site of the Bristol City Centre (Haymarket) Premier Inn.

The consented plans will see the 20-storey 1970's building redeveloped to create two new buildings providing 132 co-living homes and 442 purpose-built student accommodation bedrooms.

The footprint of these buildings - of 18 and 28 storeys - would occupy one third of the current site with the remaining two-thirds of the site's ground floor (1,900m²) being opened to the public as open space.

This space, which will be extensively landscaped and planted with a biodiversity net gain of more than 5,000 per cent, will also create a safe and welcoming pedestrian route connecting Bristol Bus & Coach Station and Broadmead.

The existing building was granted planning permission in 1967 and became home to Avon County Council from 1974. Whitbread acquired and converted the building into a hotel in 1999.

Olympian Homes appointed RIBA Stirling Prize-winning Architect Hodder+Partners to design the scheme alongside landscape designers McGregor Coxall. In developing the masterplan, care was taken to open up views of the Scottish Presbyterian Chapel, an important heritage benefit for the city.

Whitbread will continue to operate the Bristol City Centre (Haymarket) hotel as it agrees the planning conditions and Section 106 for the development with Bristol City Council.

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