Verdict due on plans to build hotel near Brighton seafront

The "major" proposals for the large site behind the existing Hilton Metropole Hotel, in Cannon Place, will be discussed at a meeting of Brighton and Hove City Council's planning committee this afternoon.

The plans would see the demolition of the existing buildings on the site, understood to be the Hilton Metropole's "conference facilities".

In their place, a standalone hotel would be build.

There are plans for a new nine-storey hotel near Brighton seafront

The planning application said this new site would have between four and nine-storeys and would "retain the Grade II listed facades of nearby buildings.

The hotel would have 221 rooms, reception, dining and bar areas, and "access to an internal open courtyard at ground floor level".

Though the site would be built by the company that owns the Hilton Metropole, it would not share facilities with the neighbouring hotel.

Brighton and Hove City Council's planning committee has previously said it is "minded to grant" the application, providing it met several conditions.

There are plans for a new nine-storey hotel near Brighton seafront

These included the production of a five-year travel plan to "reduce single occupancy trips by motor vehicles and, where possible, reduce trips by delivery and servicing vehicles".

The council also asked that the development would be "incorporating an appropriate and integral public art element".

A planning document states: "Commissioning and installation of an artistic component to the value of £49,900 within the development in public view or in the immediate vicinity of the site.

"This could comprise an ‘uplift’ in the value of public realm provision to incorporate an artistic component."