The Mermaid, Ipswich
Ipswich: Bid to build a lodge-style hotel alongside new pub
By Paul Geater
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
2:46 PM
A NEW 24-room lodge-style hotel could be built beside the new Mermaid food-based pub at the junction of Yarmouth and London Roads.
Pub group Marstons have applied for permission to build the new lodge in a separate building from the recently-completed Mermaid.
It would provide 24 bedrooms giving accommodation for diners and for visitors to the town – there would be no further facilities and residents would be expected to eat in the pub itself.
The design of the building would be similar to that of the nearby Mermaid pub which has also been built by Marstons.
The application needs special consideration by planners at the borough because it is on a flood plain.
It was lodged with the borough last week and is expected to be discussed by members of the council’s planning and development committee over the next two months.
The Mermaid is about to open on the site which was previously used as a conservatory show area.
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3 comments
"It would provide 24 bedrooms giving accommodation for diners and for visitors to the town" - seems a bit odd to me especially as the pub has yet to prove it has a need to exist, being just a few yards from where Lidls replaced 2 demolished pubs. We already have a glut of new and proposed hotels in this town. From your original article of 11th Feb " Architects JWA prepared the application for Marston’s and said the aim would be to give the appearance that the building had been developed over time and employ architectural elements to keep the building to a domestic scale." It is now sounding very much more than a "domestic" scale. Is this what constitutes "development over time"??
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Sarky Sage
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
"Lodge" is that another way of saying we are getting yet another hotel?
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Vigilant_Citizen
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Yeah, let's have even more budget hotel rooms. Tell you what, let's convert the Town Hall into a budget hotel, and Grafton House while we're at it. Woo hoo!
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Erm, Why?
Tuesday, October 23, 2012