A NEW hotel being built in the city centre will be a Premier Inn, it has been announced.
Builders demolished the former Sherry's nightclub in West Street, Brighton, in 2020 to make way for a mixed-use development, expected to be up to six storeys tall, including a 125-bedroom hotel.
An opening date for the new Premier Inn has yet to be announced.
The hotel will be the brand’s 16th in Sussex and second in the city - it already has one in North Street.
A spokesman for Whitbread, the parent company of Premier Inn, said: “The West Street hotel is a new location for Premier Inn in Brighton and does not impact any of our existing hotels in the town, including the trading hotel at North Street.
“Brighton is a very popular destination for our customers, so we expect and hope the new site will do well when open and will be an excellent new addition to our existing network.”
The news comes a year after the chain included several Sussex sites among its “target locations” to open new hotels.
Alongside Brighton city centre, the list included Patcham, Hove/Shoreham, Lewes, Rye, Bognor, East Grinstead and Arundel.
Construction is yet to begin at the West Street site, which has hosted many of the city’s most popular clubs for more than a century.
Most notably, the site was the home of Sherry’s Dance Hall, which dominated Brighton’s nightlife scene for almost three decades and was a popular destination for servicemen during the Second World War.
After Sherry’s closed, it became a roller-skating rink and then a bingo hall before being demolished in the late 1960s.
It was remodelled as a nightclub and became the Pink Coconut, Paradox, Creation, Tru, Project and Hedkandi.
In a planning application submitted in 2018, developers from architectural firm Morgan Carn Partnership described the building as soulless and said it had a “negative impact on the character of the area”.
Premier Inn has more than 800 hotels across the UK, with upwards of 76,000 rooms.
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