Hotel applies to rebrand restaurant and add rooms

Premier Inn has applied to expand its hotel in Cleethorpes

A hotel chain plans to expand its premises in a Lincolnshire town by adding more rooms and taking over a restaurant.

Premier Inn has applied to North East Lincolnshire Council to add 32 rooms to its Cleethorpes hotel in Kings Road.

It also wants to rebrand an adjacent Brewers Fayre restaurant that closed in July to serve hotel guests only.

Hospitality firm Whitbread owns both the Premier Inn and Brewers Fayre brands.

If approved the dining and bar area would be retained on the ground floor and 20 of the new bedrooms would be on the first floor.

It would take the total number of hotel rooms to 116 and increase parking spaces by five to 120.

Premier Inn Hotels applied last year to do a similar expansion at its Grimsby hotel in Appian Way.

It hopes to rebrand the former Brewers Fayre and add 20 bedrooms, taking its capacity to 78.

A planning decision is pending.

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