MIX Manchester move forward on new airport hotel

MIX Manchester has lodged proposals for a 276-key hotel off Chicago Avenue, part of the £1bn advanced manufacturing masterplan.

Whitbread, which owns the Premier Inn brand, announced its largest-ever Northern hotel at Manchester Airport in September. Now, a planning application for the nine-storey scheme has been submitted.

The 60-acre masterplan features a hotel quarter where the Premier Inn, the recently announced Dakota hotel, and the recently completed tribe Hotel are located.

Designed by 5plus Architects, the project forms part of the wider £1bn MIX Manchester campus – a 2m sq ft multi-use science and innovation campus.

To learn more about the Manchester Airport Premier Inn, search for reference number 141662/FO/2024 on Manchester City Council’s planning portal.

ROC as the structural engineer. DFC is the fire consultant. Planit is the landscape architect. The project team also includes M&E and BREEAM expert CPW and acoustics consultant Sandy Brown. Rihbell is the project manager and Atkins Realis is the cost consultant.