NEWS FEED
Plans for the redevelopment of the Salterns Harbourside Hotel have been approved by councillors.
Members of Borough of Poole’s Planning Committee voted unanimously to grant the planning application submitted by Salterns Marina Ltd, subject to conditions, at a meeting held on 19 May 2016.
Around 30 residents who attended the meeting booed the decision calling it “monstrous.”
Led by property consultant Richard Carr, the application includes the demolition of all the existing buildings, including the hotel, and the erection of two multi-storey mixed use developments containing 73 residential units, a 60 bedroom hotel as well as restaurants, offices and marina service facilities. It also includes the construction of a new quay wall around the development and raising the site by 3.6m as part of the sea defence for the area.
The proposal includes a seven-storey building accommodating a 60-bedroom hotel with marina changing rooms and shower facilities, a bar, 6 commercial units at ground level, treatment rooms, swimming pools and a gymnasium and changing facilities at lower ground floor level. In addition it includes 24 apartments comprising 4 one-bedroom, 9 two-bedroom, 10 three-bedroom and 1 four-bedroom apartments and a restaurant and function room on the top floor. The application also includes basement parking, which contains a number of double stacked spaces for the hotel, residential and public use plus surface parking totalling 226 car parking spaces.
The proposed building on the site of the Salterns Hotel will accommodate 4 one-bedroom, 10 two-bedroom, 16 three-bedroom and 1 four-bedroom apartments together with 12 two-bedroom and 2 three-bedroom duplexes. In addition there will be two 2.5-bedroom apartments.
Cllr Peter Pawlowski, Chairman of the Planning Committee, Borough of Poole, said: “The committee welcomed this bold, exciting and forward looking development proposal which offered extensive economic, environmental and social improvements to this area and the borough as a whole. A detailed and extensive examination of the planning issues resulted in a unanimous vote to grant planning permission.”
Poole campaigner Terry Stewart was very disappointed with the decision. He said, “There were 160 letters of objection from residents that raised three key problems. The total inadequacy of the narrow access road onto the site; the very heavy overdevelopment of the site with a double-the-size hotel, which does away with the recreational space, and the appearance of a seven-storey building which will be a dominant carbuncle on the landscape. With developments like this, we are rapidly losing the slogan ‘Poole’s a beautiful place.’ The worry is the precedent that this decision sets for the future.”
The full application (APP/15/00875/F) can be viewed online at poole.gov.uk/planningapplications.
Completely agree with Terry that more traffic on the narrow access road will be disastrous. You can hardly get down there in the summer as it is. What a poor decision to allow such a massive redevelopment in such an inaccessible and already impossible to park area. Has anyone even considered the inconvenience to local residents? This is about pushing them out. some planning decisions fail to protect the very people who pay their council tax to keep these decision makers in a job.