FRESH plans for a Costa Coffee drive-thru at the former Gateway to Wales Hotel site have been tabled. It followed an assessment of the impact on traffic in the area surrounding the site being described as “insufficient”. Source: Planning document The former hotel was ravaged by fire four years ago - completely gutting the building. It stood derelict for more than two years before the site was bought by Manchester-based developers Valedown Developments Ltd in March last year. Following the hotel’s demolition, proposals were put forward to create four retail units in its place, including a 1,808 square foot Costa Coffee shop.
A DRIVE-THROUGH Costa Coffee shop is proposed for the site of a former Chester village pub. Plans for the change of use from the former home of The Old Trooper in Christleton into a drive-through coffee shop have been submitted to Cheshire West and Chester Council. Planning consultant director Richard Gee, for Roman Summer Associates, applying on behalf of Valedown Developments Ltd, said the proposal would also create three new apartments at the site, adding to the two existing ones. There would also be an extension to the rear, external alterations including new/replacement doors and windows, roof alterations and the removal of a chimney, and a new circular drive-through route around a 23-space car park for the coffee shop (including two disabled parking spaces) and five spaces for the five apartments, plus a bike rack for eight bicycles.
Costa Coffee drive-thru on former North Wales hotel site back on the table
The redevelopment of the former Gateway to Wales hotel site was previously knocked back by planners
Plan for Costa at former Gateway to Wales site has been resubmitted (Image: PLanning)
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PLANS to build a Costa Coffee drive-thru on the site of a hotel in Flintshire which was ravaged by fire have been refused. It follows an assessment of the impact on traffic in the area surrounding the former Gateway to Wales hotel site in Garden City being described as “insufficient”. A fire tore through the 40-bedroom hotel, which sits just off the A494, in December 2017, which completely gutted the building. It stood derelict for more than two years before the site was bought by Manchester-based developers Valedown Developments Ltd in March last year. Following the hotel’s demolition, proposals were put forward to create four retail units in its place, including a 1,808 square foot Costa Coffee shop.