Six-storey hotel near Cambridge gets the green light

15 February 2024

Helen Burchell

BBC News, Cambridgeshire

The site would be six storeys in height with 137 hotel rooms and 80 aparthotel, or extended stay, rooms

CHMRP Architects/TLC Group An artist's impression of the proposed hotel — The site would be six storeys in height with 137 hotel rooms and 80 aparthotel, or extended stay, rooms

Plans for a new six-storey hotel on the northern edge of Cambridge have been approved.

The building will be situated in Orchard Park, a residential development in Arbury.

It includes 137 hotel rooms, 80 aparthotel - or extended stay rooms - a restaurant, bar, cafe, gym and pool.

South Cambridgeshire District Council gave the proposals the green light at a planning committee meeting on Wednesday.

TLC Group, which put forward the plans, said the the hotel will be 24.4m (about 80ft) high.

There will be a 178-space basement car park with 16 wheelchair accessible, along with cycle parking spaces for 124 visitors with a further 30 of them secure.

Objections to the development were raised by the Orchard Park Community Council. Their concerns included increased traffic from those using the pool and other facilities.