An 'amorphous block': Cork planners reject Premier Inn hotel design for Leisureplex site

UK firm spent €5.5m acquiring the former Coliseum Cinema site

CGI of proposed Premier Inn at corner of MacCurtain St and Brian Boru St.

The owners of the Premier Inn have been sent back to the drawing board to re-design the hotel they proposed for Cork city’s Leisureplex site after planners described it as an “amorphous block”.

The Whitbread group, the UK’s largest hospitality company and owners of the Premier Inn brand, spent €5.5m acquiring the former Coliseum Cinema site last February as part of plans to build a second Premier Inn in Cork, a month after opening their first inn in the city on Morrison’s Quay.