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Premier Inn sets sights on Caterham ‘eyesore’

Premier Inn has proposed a 84-bed hotel, a restaurant and retail centre on site of a building the Surrey Mirror calls ‘Caterham’s worst eyesore’.

A proposed legal agreement could see Tandridge District Council compulsorily purchase of the derelict former car showroom in Croydon Road, known as the Rose and Young site, with London-based developers CoPlan Estates set to work on the new facilities.

Piers Mason, the council’s chief planning officer, said: “The uses would provide an increase in daytime economic activity and a particular boost to the evening economy.”

The scheme is due before the council’s planning policy committee today.

Redhill magistrates has fined the landowners twice due to the poor state of the property.

Premier Inn, which is the UK’s largest hotel brand, has more than 50,000 rooms and 690 hotels and is owned by Whitbread.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ellen Forster .