Planning permission has been granted to build a new 250-bed hotel in Milton Keynes.

Hotel La Tour is aiming to build the luxury four-star hotel on Marlborough Gate, complete with conference and meeting room services, a gym, spa and pool facilities as well as a rooftop restaurant with a viewing gallery.

Designed by pHp Architects, the scheme also includes an eye-catching design feature which creates the illusion of the sun on the east side of the hotel off Midsummer Boulevard. A large circular feature will be surrounded with a mirror cladding system and using external lighting to complete the illusion.

Couch Perry Wilkes (CPW), the engineers providing the mechanical, engineering and plumbing (MEP) expertise on the scheme as well as the BREEAM assessor role, will now start the next stage of design planning. The design team includes Gleeds, pHp Architects and Scott, White and Hookins (SWH) Structural & Civil Engineers and Sharps Redmore Acoustics.


Mark Stuart, Managing Director at Hotel La Tour, said: "We are delighted to receive the green light for the Milton Keynes hotel development. Our emphasis is on quality and the entire building design team have certainly delivered above and beyond that in their plans."

Matt Wrate, director at CPW, said: "We are thrilled that Hotel La Tour has been granted successful planning permission but we aren't celebrating for long as the third stage of tender design plans are already in motion.

"We are busy developing client specific solutions to ensure that the guests and staff have the best possible experience when visiting and working in the hotel. We are therefore working with specialist designers for interior design, audio visual, spa specialists and artists working on commissions within the development.

"We are also excited to be providing a specialist lift consultancy service as the scheme will also include a scenic glass elevator, three further passenger lifts and a general lift and vehicle lift to service the conference facilities.

"We are working closely with Hotel La Tour and the other design team partners, such as Gleeds, to deliver a viable and sustainable luxury hotel for Milton Keynes."

Brian McArdle, Director at Gleeds, said: "Not only will Hotel La Tour provide luxury hotel accommodation for the city of Milton Keynes but through the construction process will help to drive the local economy and attract further inward investment into the region. We're looking forward to work starting on site and delivering the scheme over the coming year."

(LM)