Heaton Group secures approval for Preston Park Hotel revamp
City councillors voted on Thursday to sign off the transformation of the former Lancashire County Council offices into a 65-bed aparthotel, with plans to build two apartment blocks comprising 321 flats nearby.
Also on the Heaton Group’s list of projects for the three-acre Preston site is the reconfiguring of 8 East Cliff into six apartments.
The taller of the two new-build apartment blocks comes in at nine storeys and will have 128 apartments. The second block steps up from seven storeys to nine and will contain 193 flats.
Designs by Day Architectural show that all of the projects’ proposed 327 apartments, including those at 8 East Cliff, will be of either one or two bedrooms. None of the homes will be designated as having affordable tenures.
Over at the former Park Hotel, the Heaton Group will activate the ground floor with a restaurant. There will also be a coworking space and gym.
In creating an aparthotel, the Heaton Group is bringing the building back into its original use. Constructed around the 1880s, the structure was a hotel until 1950. The Park Hotel next became the county council’s offices, before the county council closed the building in 2011.
Paul Butler Associates was the planning consultant for the scheme. You can learn more about the proposals by searching 06/2023/0509 on Preston City Council’s planning portal.
