“ Latest claimed start date is September. It was always clear the project was part of an expansion policy forced on Whitbread by vulture fund investors to increase the Premier Inn portfolio before selling the company and the Marketplace hotel with it. However the investors are now forcing the sale of some Premier Inn assets in the UK to fund expansion in Germany before then selling the company. It may be started next month. It may end up being a Premier Inn or something else. It may never be built. The planning permission may left on the books as yet another grossly inflated approval for development of the site to be leap frogged by one even larger. The restaurant space which was said to be ancillary to the hotel is currently planned to be a Beefeater pub and grill. ”