Frogmoor hotel plans given thumbs up (From Bucks Free Press)
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Frogmoor hotel plans given thumbs up
3:57pm Monday 2nd November 2009 in News By Simon Farr
Artist impression of Frogmoor with hotel
PLANS to build a new 124-bed hotel above the Chilterns Shopping Centre have been given the green light by Wycombe District Council.
The proposed four-floor development will feature a new restaurant, which will open out on to Frogmoor for outside dinning, provide extra parking space and create around 20 jobs.
Three retail units in the Chilterns Centre, clothing stores Blue Ice and Sapphire, and the derelict Wimpy restaurant, will make way for a reception area, offices and toilets.
While the dis-used Windsor House offices above the shopping complex will be part demolished for three floors of guest bedrooms and hotel facilities, including a laundry room and staff room.
Ground floor retailers in the Chilterns Centre will not be affected by the development.
Melanie Williams, town centre manager from the High Wycombe Town Centre Partnership called the planning decision a “positive move for the town”.
She said: “It's a positive development for Frogmoor, there is a requirement for a hotel in this area and anything that brings in and keeps more people in the town for a longer period is a positive move for the town.”
Fran Chick, director of planning agents CSJ Brooke Smith said: “The proposals will result in a positive visual enhancement to the shopping centre and the conservation area and will increase local employment opportunities. It’s an excellent result all round.”
Developers will need to commence building the hotel within three years and meet 12 further planning conditions. A hotel operator has yet to be confirmed.
Comments(14)
Hit me
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5:28pm Mon 2 Nov 09
The thing that really really confuses me is the lack of parking? The planners must have forgot that visitors come in cars - not on the no47 bus!
SDJones
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6:11pm Mon 2 Nov 09
Geoff Gill
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6:19pm Mon 2 Nov 09
Hit me
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6:27pm Mon 2 Nov 09
...not that I would remember that of course....
Plus ça change...
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7:47am Tue 3 Nov 09
We should never say we have too much of anything.
The more there is, the more facilities we will get.
More please.
Edna_Welthorpe
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11:21am Tue 3 Nov 09
miccles
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12:15pm Tue 3 Nov 09
Is this project a neccessity? can think of hundreds of things that the money would be better spent.
Up goes the council tax again.
Catflap
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12:26pm Tue 3 Nov 09
iworld
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1:49pm Tue 3 Nov 09
Plus the area needs to bring back some big names
Agniesca
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2:45pm Tue 3 Nov 09
Kadoogan
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3:57pm Tue 3 Nov 09
Edna_Welthorpe
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8:21pm Tue 3 Nov 09
Kadoogan wrote:The implication appears to be that this will be 'tidied up' once the hotel is built. You point out it's a nasty area to be in yet complain when plans are put forward to change it!
What a lovely location for dining outside. Dodging the pigeon s**t, choking on the traffic fumes, avoiding eye contact with the drunks and their cans of Tennants Super etc, the 'cattle-market' style pubs (Litten Tree, Butlers) very nearby. Can't wait!
wycombenewbie
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8:42am Wed 4 Nov 09
miccles wrote:When did councils start running hotels?!
20 Jobs?? is that all, Is this project a neccessity? can think of hundreds of things that the money would be better spent. Up goes the council tax again.
This is a private enterprise with private money.
wayneo says...
4:12pm Mon 2 Nov 09
roof-weak