By Hannah Brown
Copyright cambridge-news
Part of a hotel in Cambridge could be converted back into a home under the latest plans for the site. An application has been submitted to Cambridge City Council to turn 142 Tenison Road from a hotel into a private house.
The rest of the hotel, 144-146 Tenison Road, is proposed to remain as a hotel. The plans said the change would see the number of hotel rooms cut from 24 to 16.
A planning statement submitted to the city council said: “It is proposed that no.142 will be blocked off internally from the rest of the hotel and with some internal rearrangements at ground floor to be converted back to a residential property. A new bi-fold door opening to the rear garden area will be the only external change.”
The plans went on to explain that the new home would be used by the owner of the hotel. It added that the owners believed the hotel business would still be viable with fewer rooms on offer. The plans said: “For the last couple of years the hotel has been run as a 16-bedroom property and this has proven to be financially viable.
“This is due to the fact that the owners have been carrying out major renovations to the areas that are within the 142 section of the property. It has now been decided that as the hotel in the 16-bedroom format is financially viable, that it would be more in the owners interest to create a private living space and to keep it separate to the hotel entirely.”
This application follows previous plans to use the entire hotel at 142-146 Tenison Road as student housing during the academic year. An application was submitted to the city council that said the rooms would still be used as a hotel in the summer holidays.
The accommodation was proposed to be used by students attending St Andrew’s College, based nearby. However, the application was later withdrawn by the applicant.
Concerns had been raised by the highways team at Cambridgeshire County Council about the lack of cycle parking facilities proposed for the students and the potential for this to lead to an “increase in irregular cycle parking, by way of future residents attaching cycles to street furniture”.
The highways team added that this could be “detrimental” to pedestrian safety, particularly for people who are partially sighted. The city council will now need to consider the latest application and decide whether the conversion from hotel to a home can go ahead or not.
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