Updated: Plans for Grand Hotel revamp in Leigh approved (From Echo)
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TOWIE's Mick Norcross gets thumbs up for revamp of Grand Hotel
2:45pm Wednesday 15th August 2012 in News By Emma Thomas
Mick Norcross outside Southend Civic Centre
Plans for the revamp of the Grand Hotel in Leigh have been approved.
Members of Southend Council's development control committee meeting voted unanimously in favour of plans to extend the hotel in the Broadway.
Mick Norcross, who stars in ITV2's The Only Way is Essex, has been given the green light for plans to build the two-storey extension containing two bedrooms and extended kitchen facilities.
The proposals were scaled back from earlier plans for a three-storey extension with five bedrooms.
As the Echo reported on Friday, council officers had recommended the earlier, larger plans be thrown out but after Mick Norcross amended them they were given the nod by officers.
The Grand Hotel has been empty since 2008.
Mick Norcross has released a brochure for the new hotel which can be viewed by going to http://houseductive.com/images/The_Grand_Brochure.pdf .
Full story and interview with Mick Norcross in tomorrow's Echo.
Comments(13)
The King of Southend
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3:09pm Wed 15 Aug 12
Hopefully it won't be long before we get a Grand Prix and international polo tournament to go with the spray tans and financed second hand Range Rivers.
wælcyrge
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3:24pm Wed 15 Aug 12
perini
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3:56pm Wed 15 Aug 12
PS - No problem with the link but it is a 2.7MB down-load!
jaguarxxv
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4:25pm Wed 15 Aug 12
Soouthchurch59
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4:59pm Wed 15 Aug 12
Frankiii
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7:02pm Wed 15 Aug 12
You only need to go Brentwood High Street to see what you'll be getting.
37 Planning breaches
Multiple licence breaches
Violent fights nightly, some started by staff
Drug use prevalent
Councilors in the pocket of management,
(and as I understand it you don't have particularly straight councilors.)
And this is without the nighttime economy of bright orange chavs and chavettes with their impeccable manners.
Good Luck.
You'll need it.
Frankiii
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7:05pm Wed 15 Aug 12
golfplayer
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9:16am Thu 16 Aug 12
jantone
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6:13pm Thu 16 Aug 12
APR
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10:48pm Thu 16 Aug 12
Jose El Mezclador
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10:34am Fri 17 Aug 12
Now perhaps the peroxide blonde mutts and the tattooed 2nd hand car fiddlers will have somewhere else to pose and leave old Leigh alone
Broadwaywatch
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3:11pm Fri 17 Aug 12
perini wrote:Do they indeed...in your view but what about parking. Local residents don't count I surpose. There would have been more parking space in the front as in the past but the plans show space taken up with more drinking areas.
The plans look superb - look forward to seeing it in the 'flesh'
PS - No problem with the link but it is a 2.7MB down-load!
I wish the venture 'as shown' every success but am sorry that SBC had not shown a little more forethought for parking when passing the plans.
lucy10 says...
2:59pm Wed 15 Aug 12