Plans to move a controversial hotel away from the Gateshead riverside are set to be sent to council bosses this week.
It emerged in late October that an 11-storey hotel proposed as part of a new arena and conference centre development on the Quayside was going to be relocated, in an effort to cut costs. The dual-branded Ibis and Novotel had been the source of ire from its potential neighbours, who had claimed earlier this year that it would tower over their flats and leave them so dark that it would feel “like a Victorian prison”.
But developers Ask:PATRIZIA are now set to move the hotel to a new site behind the proposed arena complex, which is due to be built between the Sage and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art. They have confirmed that they will submit new plans to Gateshead Council this week to instead build a £48m nine-storey hotel behind the arena site, at the corner of Quarryfield Road and Hawks Road.
