A RHYL restaurant could be lost to a conversion expanding an adjacent hotel – if planning permission is agreed.
Applicant Whitbread Plc has applied to Denbighshire County Council’s planning department, seeking permission to convert the restaurant and pub at the Premier Inn hotel at 21-26 West Parade.
The company seeks permission to convert the existing hotel restaurant into additional hotel bedrooms and ‘guest-only restaurant room’.
If granted, the application will see the number of hotel bedrooms increase from 70 to 80.
A planning statement submitted in support of the application states: “The application seeks permission for minor external changes, as well as the internal reconfiguration of the hotel restaurant.
“The applicant has identified a specific need to deliver additional bedrooms at this site, as well as to modify how the on-site restaurant provision is to operate.
“Accordingly, the existing restaurant will be removed and replaced with a smaller food and beverage provision for hotel guests only.”
The statement went on: “These amendments will allow the overall net provision of hotel rooms on-site to increase (from) 70-80.”
The plans include alterations to the building and other associated works.
The planning application will likely be considered at a future planning committee meeting at Denbighshire’s Ruthin County Hall HQ.
