Hotel La Tour | Riverside | New Bailey Street | 14 Fl | App

[nq]

Architects: Peter Haddon And Partners

12/62420/FUL | Erection of a 14 storey high 223 bedroomed hotel | Car Park West Riverside New Bailey Street Salford

[nerd]

Originally Posted by nq

Great stuff. No docs on yet for any detail.

Architects look to be Peter Haddon And Partners

Going here somewhere, (more up to date photo knocking about?)

Other side of the road I think; the application says Car Park West - which would be the one due south of Salford Central station.

[nq]

Ah right, was just going by the area highlighted by the map tab on the app.

[Lookin Up]

Originally Posted by nerd

Other side of the road I think; the application says Car Park West - which would be the one due south of Salford Central station.

Is this not the McAleer and Rush proposal for New Bailey Street? (another thread on here somewhere)
Same idea/height.
If so, the site is the nasty dark brown brick 70s box on the right of the photo.
Should add some much needed density in what is essentially the city centre.

Going to speak to someone in the know about the McAleer Rush thing next week. Will post if I can.

[nq]

Originally Posted by Lookin Up

Is this not the McAleer and Rush proposal for New Bailey Street? (another thread on here somewhere)

That's City Wharf. Would be good to get an update on it.

[monkey_rat]

Good find - I take it this is the plot immediately on your right if you were walking from the station towards Manchester (currently a pay and display)

[nq]

Just noticed the applicant is Hotel La Tour and Bruntwood Ltd, what does that suggest location wise?

[urbnist]

Originally Posted by nq

Just noticed the applicant is Hotel La Tour and Bruntwood Ltd, what does that suggest location wise?

Just click on the map tab nq.

Its between Bruntwood's Riverside office complex and The Bridge apartments. Didn't think there was any spare land there after the recent landscaping.

[VDB]

Excellent news, right on the riverside.

Anything about ground floor retail/commercial?

[Lookin Up]

Originally Posted by urbnist

Just click on the map tab nq.

Its between Bruntwood's Riverside office complex and The Bridge apartments. Didn't think there was any spare land there after the recent landscaping.

Aah, now that is interesting. So it's different / in addition to the New Bailey St scheme.
That's next to the Lowry right?
I hope all involved are respectful of the river. 14 stories is too big unless it's set back. Would like to avoid more of the grim canyon effect that you get from round here looking back toward the Cathedral.

[urbnist]

My money's on the new building being connected to or built in front of Delphine House.

If you look at this post from the Bruntwood - Riverside thread, there is an area shaded pink on the landscape plans. This is the only realistic plot for a new building within the red line boundary on the map. And if you look carefully at the photograph of Delphine House on that same post, it looks like Bruntwood have already carried out work to to the building where it might connect to the new hotel.

[nq]

Looked at the map tab, but then confused by the 'West Riverside' address, thought it was possibly an error. Quite how it's going to fit in there with the existing buildings, does indeed look like a possible connection to Delphian.

[urbnist]

Scrap that. The clue is in the post I linked to.

The pink shaded area is labelled "Hotel Drop-Off and Arrival Space" on the landscape plans which means the hotel will be built directly in front of Delphine House but not connected to it at that point.

[jrb]

This was from April 2012.

Hotel la Tour reveals Salford expansion plans

Last updated: 11th Apr 2012 at 08:49am

Northampton-based hotel chain Hotel la Tour has chosen Salford as the site for its next hotel, the company has revealed to Insider. Managing director Jane Schofield said she wanted to open one hotel a year over the next five years.

Schofield refused to give details of where exactly in Salford the next Hotel la Tour will be, but she confirmed it would create about 100 jobs and have more than 200 bedrooms.

"With Hotel la Tour we want to create hotels that people can enjoy staying at, and eating at," she said. "Too many hotels forget that their residents want a top-class restaurant to be able to enjoy, as well as a high standard of accommodation."

Hotel la Tour opened its 174-bedroom flagship hotel in Birmingham in February. The company was founded by the former management team of Midlands-based Hayley Conference Centres, which was sold in 2007 to private equity firm Permira in a £358m deal.

Developed at a cost of £24m, the hotel includes a restaurant and bar inspired by Marcus Wareing, the former protégé of Gordon Ramsay.

Schofield added: "We're really looking at every major city in the UK as a potential investment." She said Hotel la Tour's ambitious expansion plans could create more than 500 jobs over the next five years.

The Birmingham branch of the chain was established by a small team "dedicated to making it happen", she said. The main investor is Alan English, who was the largest shareholder in Hayley. Other finance was secured with HSBC, which previously also worked with Hayley.

"What you see in Birmingham is five years' development work by property director Geoff Robotham, operations director Adrian Colman and IT director Julie King, who have taken the lead in developing a hotel of the future."

Schofield confirmed Hotel la Tour would also enter the London market. "We have a small hotel in the south of the England which we're using as a tester for when we extend the brand south," she said. http://www.insidermedia.com/insider/...95-/index.html

[Cherguevara]

Originally Posted by urbnist

Scrap that. The clue is in the post I linked to.

The pink shaded area is labelled "Hotel Drop-Off and Arrival Space" on the landscape plans which means the hotel will be built directly in front of Delphine House but not connected to it at that point.

You mean where the car parking spaces are marked on the diagram?

Makes sense I suppose.

[tellmeastorey]

http://www.egi.co.uk/news/article.aspx?id=757139

Hotel La Tour checks into Manchester

By Simon Binns | Leisure | 17-10-2012 | 16:10 | Print

Birmingham-based hotel operator Hotel La Tour is planning to open close to Manchester city centre.

The firm has submitted a planning application to Salford city council for a 14-storey, 223-bedroom hotel on a vacant site on New Bailey Street, owned by Manchester based Bruntwood.

Adrian Coleman, owner of Hotel La Tour, said the firm would be investing more than £25m in the new site.

"We've been looking for a second site for a while and Manchester fits in with our product," he said. "We like what's happening with MediaCityUK, lots of businesses are relocating to Manchester from London and the waterfront location is right for us."

Coleman said the Peter Haddon & Partners-designed hotel would have signature restaurant and bar on the 14th floor and work could start on the hotel next year.

A planning decision is expected by 16 January.

Simon.Binns@estatesgazette.com

[nq]

Docs up.

[ferge]

Not worth getting excited about (aesthetically speaking) but its a good size, it is going to become fairly dense around here the Sillivan way block a stone's throw away, other potential buildings around the river frontage and the Bayley close by. I do hope we get some variety in heights though, it'd be very claustrophobic to have all new buildings plateau at a 12-14 storey height.

[monkey_rat]

If the units in this, The Bridge and the Lowry ever get let this could one day be a decent nighttime eating and drinking destination.

[Chogmook]

And if Chapel Wharf ever sees the light of day, it'll be tall and dense!