Hotel work restarts after 4-month delay
The work freeze that has lasted for nearly four months at the £10m Hotel Indigo site in Bath has finally come to an end.
Workers were seen carrying out their duties at the huge building in South Parade this week.
St James’s Hotel Group said that building contractor Phelan Construction Limited had suspended work there back on February 28.
Concerns had been raised that the 166-bedroom hotel, scheduled to open in September, was going to be delayed quite some time.
Bath councillors Alison Born and Rob Appleyard said that it was troubling that nobody really knew the reason behind why work had stopped for 70 days.
However, since then St James’s has found a replacement to complete the work.
A spokeswoman for the hotel group said that Phelan Construction Limited was no longer part of the project.
A spokeswoman for Hotel Indigo Bath said: “St James’s Hotel Group will shortly appoint a replacement principal contractor to complete the hotel renovation and conversion, for the hotel to open later in 2019.
“Following the departure from site of Phelan Construction Limited, St James’s has been working hard to ensure construction recommences as soon as possible.
“While details with a replacement contractor are finalised, the hotel site is open and interim works are progressing.”
The hotel is replacing the old Pratt’s Hotel and Halycon hotels.
It will have a gym, bars, restaurants, terraces and rooms will be “luxurious and fashionable”.
In 2017, the building work suffered long delays after asbestos was found and had to be removed.