Hotel's new expansion bid

A NEW bid is being made for a major extension at one of Warrington’s most historic hotels.
Health and leisure facilities, including a swimming pool, conference and business facilities and 29 additional bedrooms will be built at the Lymm Hotel, in Whitbarrow Road, Lymm if planners give the go-ahead.
The application is the latest of a series over the last 15 years, all of which were strongly opposed by local residents.
Lymm Parish Council has objected to the new scheme and concern has also been expressed by local residents’ group Neighbours of the Lymm Hotel.”
The parish council says the site will become over-developed, there will be parking problems, inadequate sewage facilities and environmental issues.
The neighbours’ group welcomes the possibility of a thriving, vibrant hotel and does not object to development in principle.
They accept the scheme is probably the most acceptable submitted over the last 15 years – but are still concerned at the scale of the development.
Concerns are also expressed about deliveries, parking, traffic, noise and general residential amenity, over development of the site, sewerage, loss of trees and the “austere office block-like” design.
Nine individual letters from residents express similar concerns.
Officers are recommending the scheme be approved.