A hospitality firm has been given the go ahead to transform an art deco hotel in Tynemouth into a pub-with-rooms, complete with fish and chip shop and ice cream parlour.
The Inn Collection Group snapped up the Park Hotel in Tynemouth last year, and previously submitted plans to demolish part of the hotel.
Now the Alnwick company has been given the green light to refurbish the building and introduce new attractions for customers, including a two-storey extension to provide new hotel bedrooms.
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The company has released a new image showing the hotel will look, after North Tyneside Council rubber stamped the redevelopment.
The project includes extensive remodelling to the former Park Hotel’s current bar and dining areas along with the site’s existing bedrooms.
The venue will feature an ice cream parlour and fish and chip takeaway while new outdoor seating areas and terraces will make the most of the site’s panoramic sea views of Longsands beach.
A previously underused function area will be reconfigured to create an additional 20 bedrooms for guests, including sea view rooms and dog-friendly ground-floor suites.
It will also include secure bike storage, bike stands and lockers as well as wash down areas, plus on-site car parking with EV charge points.
The Inn Collection Group’s managing director Sean Donkin said: “We are absolutely delighted that plans have been given the green light for the former Park Hotel which will become a truly exceptional venue for North Tyneside.
“The building is an institution on the coast in Tynemouth but has been in decline for a considerable length of time. We’re looking forward to giving this stunning venue a new lease of life for people in the community and visitors alike to enjoy.
“The Inn Collection Group specialise in exciting but sympathetic refurbishments of aspirational sites like The Park and breathing new life into them once more, while being careful to preserve their individual character and distinctiveness.”
He added: “The restoration will be a significant investment by The Inn Collection Group to improve the offer and quality of the former Park hotel which will contribute massively to the wider economic growth, prosperity and employment in North Tyneside.
“It will generate increased overnight bookings throughout the year, bringing additional people to the area and improved bar and dining areas to attract new and local custom.
“It will provide knock on benefits to other operations and businesses on the North Sea coast as well as creating numerous job opportunities.”
The Inn Collection Group purchase of the 53-bedroom venue on Grand Parade, Tynemouth became the Northumberland operator’s debut Tyneside site.
Outside North Tyneside, the group has 30 further inns across Northumberland, County Durham, Teesside, Yorkshire, Cumbria, Lancashire, Wearside and North Wales.
The venue is expected to re-open in autumn 2022 and will create 70 full time equivalent jobs.
