Mutli-award-winning Aston Marina is inviting residents to attend a public consultation later this month to hear about their proposal for a new 35-bedroom hotel for the site.
The marina has issued a brochure on its website to lay out the plans – Aston Marina Public Hotel Consultation. The consultation comes on the back of their proposals for a new solar array on the marina’s site.
“…..This public consultation has the primary objective of involving the local community with the planning of this project, enabling us to deliver an offering that sympathetically works in partnership with the local area, promoting economic growth and bolstering Stone & Staffordshire as a visitor destination for leisure, tourism and business.”
In introducing the scheme, the brochure says:
“Aston Marina prides itself on continual growth as one of Staffordshire’s destination sites for weddings, events, business, leisure and tourism. The multi award-winning business promotes local suppliers, charity fundraising and over 90% of its 100+ employees residing within a 10-mile radius of the site. Community support and involvement is high on our list of priorities and therefore an essential part of the planning process of the project.
This public consultation has the primary objective of involving the local community with the planning of this project, enabling us to deliver an offering that sympathetically works in partnership with the local area, promoting economic growth and bolstering Stone & Staffordshire as a visitor destination for leisure, tourism and business.”
Going on to say:
“The proposed solution to continue to grow the business and enhance the local economy is to build, manage and operate a new 35 bedroom hotel on site, linking the venue and restaurant with premium, convenient accommodation on ground that part of the existing developed site. The local area has a growing demand for this facility.
The most suitable solution will be sympathetic to the ecology and environmental needs of the site, provide significant scope for business growth and enable Aston Marina to contribute to the local economy in terms of employment, tourism and supplier opportunities.
Feedback from Stafford Borough Council planning department was positive for the pre-application submission and all of their suggestions have been taken into account. An example of this in the design is utilising the roof space in order to achieve a build height of one and a half stories instead of two stories to ensure the building is in scale with the existing restaurant building and the same height.”
You can view the full proposal on the Aston Marina website, and the date for the public consultation event is Tuesday 12th of March, between 4pm – 7pm.
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