Green light for extended city centre hotel plans

A development firm has been given the go-ahead to increase the size of a planned city-centre hotel.

Peterborough City Council has given Gujjar Investments permission to add more rooms to the proposed hotel in Westgate.

The company, which is based in Peterborough, had already been given approval to create a 34-room hotel above the Westgate Galleria at 35 Westgate.

Council members have now approved plans to add nine more bedrooms - and create a 43-room hotel.

Gujjar's initial application - which was approved by the city council in October 2023 - said the hotel would benefit the city centre by providing accommodation and creating jobs.

In January, Peterborough City Council said it was "hugely disappointed" that a buyer for an unfinished hotel elsewhere in the city had pulled out.

The council was on the cusp of selling the Hilton Garden Inn in December but the deal fell through when the developer walked away two weeks before contracts were due to be exchanged.

The unnamed buyer was one of three parties interested in buying the Fletton Quays hotel, which was originally due to open in 2019 but was beset by construction delays.

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