Pub’s hotel extension plan set for approval
Mar 7 2008 by Tony Henderson, The Journal
AN extension is planned to a Tyneside pub which would provide a 40-bedroom hotel.
North Tyneside councillors are being advised next week to back the scheme by the Spirit Group for the hotel at the Foxhunters pub on Preston North Road in North Shields.
The proposal involves the demolition of a children’s play barn to the rear of the pub, which would provide meals and breakfasts for the hotel.
One objection claims that the hotel is likely to be used for hen and stag parties, resulting in anti-social behaviour. But the council’s tourism development manager is supporting the scheme on the grounds that there is a need for such accommodation.
Meanwhile, Wallsend is set to have a swimming pool after being without one for the last 19 years. The town’s Wallsend Baths closed in 1989.
North Tyneside planners are recommending approval for a community pool, sports hall, fitness and community facilities at Burnside Business and Enterprise College in St Peter’s Road, Wallsend.
The council scheme envisages a six-lane, 25-metre pool and a 13-metre teaching pool, with fitness suite.
The pool complex, in front of the school, would be for the use of the public and pupils.
The carbon emissions from the Wallsend pool would be 30% below that of the Killingworth Lakeside pool due to the use of a combined heat and power unit.
