www.Parctel.com: Plans to construct a 157 bedroom three star plus hotel and an 869 space multi-storey car park at Liverpool John Lennon Airport (JLA) have been approved by Liverpool City Council.
A short stay multi-storey car park with parking over 5 levels with a 6 story hotel on top will be built on the site of the existing car park directly opposite the terminal. Work is due to commence on the £25 million development shortly, with the project taking 18 months to complete.
The Airport has worked closely with the council planning officers in recent weeks to agree the best design for the airport and the region. Key features of the hotel include an elliptical meeting/conference area offering panoramic views of the Airport and Mersey Estuary and a large 11m x 6 m video display screen on the hotel exterior. This screen will be used to display images of John Lennon and The Beatles to highlight arts events in the City and the region to arriving passengers. The multi-storey car park design includes projected coloured glazed boxes on the exterior to add visual interest to the front of the car park.
Hotel guests and car park users will be able to walk over to the terminal in minutes via a new enclosed link bridge that will span the road in front of the terminal.
With JLA now handling in excess of 5 million annual passengers, this development is being constructed in response to increasing passenger demand for such facilities.
With the low cost operators easyJet and Ryanair now basing 15 aircraft at JLA, many inbound visitors to the region arrive on the last returning flights of the day and the hotel is expected to prove popular with passengers on such flights who prefer to avoid having to then make onward travel arrangements, sometimes late at night. The hotel will also be used by departing passengers who have early morning flights to catch and wish to avoid travelling to the airport in the early hours by staying on site the night before.
There is a demand for a short stay multi-storey car park at the airport, particularly from the growing number of business travellers who prefer the convenience of parking close to the terminal. At the same time as enhancing car parking facilities, the development also provides for improved access by buses and taxis for both passengers and airport staff.
The development will improve general traffic circulation at the airport and further enhance access for all, particularly those with special needs. The construction will be carefully managed to ensure any disruption is kept to a minimum.
Neil Pakey, Managing Director Liverpool John Lennon Airport said:
“With flights from over 60 scheduled destinations now serving Liverpool, this development is a natural progression of improved on site facilities to satisfy the needs of today's 5 million passengers.
Any international airport of our size needs a hotel adjacent to its terminal. This caters for both the inbound arriving passengers often coming in late in the evening, or for UK originating passengers with often very early departures in the morning. In terms of design we have added a large media screen to promote public art and we have also started to work with both the Southport Flower Show and the Tatton Flower Show in the hope we can bring some unique landscaping to the area. All in all it's a very exciting development.”
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