Clifford Christian Estates has submitted an application for outline planning consent to deliver the new property, which it says will support the local council’s aspirations to see a major commercial hub spring up around an extended and improved Bank Quay Station, from where trains to London depart.

The site is currently used as a 104-space surface car park, with Underhill noting that a hotel would offer a much more economically advantageous use of scarce land.

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