Plans have been submitted to build a Holiday Inn and Ibis Budget hotel on land currently occupied by a closed-down petrol station
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These two hotels – containing nearly 550 rooms – could soon be built near Manchester Airport .
The Holiday Inn and Ibis Budget buildings would be part of Airport City’s £180m hotel district.
Both would be seven-storeys high and sit to the east of Terminal 2.
Planning papers state The Holiday Inn would have 262 rooms, while the Ibis Budget block would have 280.
Manchester Airport Group, construction firm BCEGI and the Greater Manchester Pension Fund form the consortium P1 Hotels. Some £30m will be put into the plan.
Developers also intend to build a business centre, restaurant and bars and conference facilities at The Holiday Inn.
The site – at the junction of Palma Avenue and World Way – is currently occupied by a closed-down petrol station.
The development would also include 52 car parking spaces.
Visitors would have access to more than 30,000 spaces in and around the airport, developers say.
Vehicles would be able to access the hotels via Palma Avenue, while a ‘dedicated pedestrian route’ would be provided to Terminal 2.
The site is located within land ‘designated for development as part of Airport City Manchester masterplan, which will contain hotels, offices, logistics facilities, ancillary retain and advanced manufacturing’, according to the design and access statement, prepared on behalf of P1 Hotels.
It says that the ‘impending expansion of the airport itself and the development of Airport City’ means there is a ‘specified need for more quality hotel accommodation at Manchester Airport’.
There are currently eight differently-branded hotels within two miles of the development site, according to that statement.
If the plans are approved, building work is pencilled in to start in early 2019, with the hotels ready to open by early 2021. Around 250 jobs could be created.
Plans for a £100m development, including two further hotels opposite the airport’s train station, were approved earlier this year.