Developers have submitted plans to create a £60m skyscraping hotel and flats scheme on Gateshead’s Quayside.
Elliot Group has submitted plans which would see a 21-storey, 202-bedroom hotel– built to resemble New York’s famous Flat Iron building – dominate the corner of Mill Road and Hawks Road in Gateshead.
The multimillion-pound scheme would also include 244 serviced apartments, a rooftop garden and two commercial units on the ground floor, and would create around 50 jobs once completed.
The new plans, which have now been submitted to Gateshead’s planning authorities replace a towering housing scheme which had gained approval last October.
It emerged last month that those plans had been scrapped in favour of the larger scheme to incorporate the hotel, taking adavantage of moves to redevelop the Gateshead Quays area, with a new arena, convention centre and more leisure opportunities on a neighbouring site between Sage and Baltic.
Elliot Lawless, founder of Elliot Group, said: “Gateshead Quays will be transformative and our response to it demonstrates that the market is already pricing it into its thinking.
“We aim to add value to whatever comes forward on the site and to support its performance with our hotel and apartment products.
“The Tyneside visitor economy is in good shape and only going to get better and we want to play our part in that. Our intention is to bring something new to the party and give momentum to the wider regeneration of the Gateshead side of the river
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Architect Falconer Chester Hall has adapted previous planning permissions granted for residential and student schemes on the site, and the planning consultant for the project is Manchester-based Zerum.
Martin Haymes, architect, said: “The scheme is stepped at 10, 16 and 21 storeys and will provide stunning views across the river. Everyone loves a view of the water and Newcastle’s skyline is full of historical interest.”