A Newcastle Quayside office scheme is poised to be transformed into a new luxury waterfront hotel.
Dakota Hotels is proposing to convert the empty St Ann’s Wharf at 112 Quayside into a boutique-style 115 bedroomed hotel, complete with a ground floor bar and grill area overlooking the riverside promenade. The company’s plans are outlined in a public consultation, launched this week by planning specialist Lichfields.
The UK hotel chain currently has five hotels, based in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Motherwell, Leeds and Manchester, welcoming celebrity guests including actors Hugh Jackman, Glenn Close and Arnold Schwarzenegger, singers Katy Perry, Liam Gallagher, Stereophonics and The Stone Roses. The office at St Ann’s Wharf previously had a number of tenants, including Womble Bond Dickinson which had been based on the Quayside since 1998 until relocating more than 400 staff into the new Spark building at Newcastle Helix.
