Metropole Hotel, Padstow - 9th January 2019

Cornwall Design Review Panel Summary

Landmark Historical MapCounty: CORNWALL ISLES OF SCILLYPublished Date(s): 1907Originally plotted at: 1:2,500

2.0 Site Location & Land Use1.0 Client Experience, Vision & Investment 3.0 Understanding Heritage 4.0 Planning Policy & Heritage Impact

Harbour Hotels own and operates prestigious hotels located in some of the most beautiful locations in the UK. Their portfolio spans a number of important coastal locations such as Salcombe, St Ives, Christchurch, a seperate boutique town house hotel in the centre of Christchurch and hotels in vibrant city locations, including Chichester, Guildford, Brighton, Bristol and Southampton. Acquired during the summer 2018 from the administrators, the new operator is now undertaking a comprehensive programme of long overdue refurbishment, extension and development to safegaurd the future success of the hotel.

The Metropole Hotel is an unlisted building located in a prominent location in Station Road and is located within the Padstow Conservation Area. The vision for the Hotel is to create a luxury 4 Star Spa Hotel including; complementary function spaces, unique destination spa, improved food & beverage offers and additional bedroom spaces. To support the significant level of investment and enhanced tourist offer, the client’s brief to the Design Team is to explore opportunities for discrete areas of residential development to support the level of investment needed.

Hotel internal refurbishment &

alteration

New bedroom wing

Improved entrance & arrival experience

Destination spa building

Discreet residential development

supporting investment

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Client Brief

1 Kay Elliott Metropole Hotel, Padstow

Ground Floor

6.0 Proposed Plans 6.0 Masterplan & Massing Concept

New Housing Improved Car Park New Bedroom Wing

Improved Entrance New Spa builing with Terrace Over

New Pool

Sail Loft & Parking

S T A T I O N R O A D

Function Room

Function Room

New Bedrooms from existing

function room

Existing post war extension altered to create new function space

Proposed new terrace extends across entire ground floor to add plinth

New bar &

Lounge

New function space created from bedroom

Roof of new Spa building stepping down to address visibility when viewed up Station Road. Single storey building intergrated into landscape

New planting to boundary edge

repositioned vehicular entrance to

improved setting of building and increase

parking numbers

Extent of existing opening reduced

Reconfigured bar and lounge with replacement restaurant orangery overlooking Camel Estuary

New Terrace

Impact of parking

mitigatedby new planting

New bedrooms New sea facing bedrooms + terrace

Access via lower ground floor - new

lift and stair core

Pool

New seaward garden rooms

Hotel access to harbour maintained

Stair core, new lift & escape

refurbished room

Garden suites created from extended existing bedrooms under restaurant

Treatment rooms created within existing hotel

New retaining wall to create access to pool building

Line of terrace over

Proposed new spa with terrace to function room green roof over - internal layout to be confirmed

Spa gardens & pool

New bedrooms

Lower Ground Floor

2 Kay Elliott Metropole Hotel, Padstow

5-7 Meadfoot Road Torquay Devon TQ1 2JP United Kingdom

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