Plan for 133-room hotel and 34 apartments is approved
PLANNERS have granted permission for an apartment and hotel project in Derbyshire.
Up to 34 apartments and a 133-room hotel will be built on land off Basil Close, near the Donut roundabout and the Saltergate multistorey car park in Chesterfield.
The plans, first submitted back in May 2020, were given the go-ahead this week.
The development, which will be built on an overgrown piece of land at the junction of Brewery Street, will overlook the old Chesterfield Hospital and consist of two tower blocks.
One of the blocks will be home to a 133-room hotel and restaurant spread over seven floors, with the restaurant on the ground floor.
Plans for the hotel call for six family bedrooms on floors 3, 4 and 5, while accessible bedrooms will be on the ground floor and the first floor. It will also have 106 king/twin rooms and 14 double rooms spread over the different levels.
The café will be on the ground floor of the apartment building, which will consist of 22 one-bedroom flats and 12 two-bedroom apartments spread over a total of seven floors, some of
the apartments will have balconies as well.
The land, in Basil Close, has been vacant for a number of years and is currently covered in overgrown weeds, trees and bushes, the apartment building will overlook Chesterfield Magistrates’ Court and the train station.
Chesterfield Borough Council’s planning committee approved the plans on Wednesday.
No details have been released about which hotel chain will run the building, nor who will look after the apartment block. However, the construction of the two buildings will have to have started before September 2024 under conditions laid down by Chesterfield Borough Council.