60-bed hotel plan shown green light

A plan to retain a 60-bed hotel in Stratford-upon-Avon has been approved.Westbourne Leisure, which owns The Oak in Stratford Road, also won permission to demolish a function room and a three-storey rear extension and expand its restaurant.Planning permission was refused in 2009 for a 70-bedroom hotel and in 2010 for a 40-bedroom extension which was dismissed at appeal.There have also been further permissions on the site for various alterations and extensions.Planning permission was granted for a 14-bedroom extension in the form of a rear wing following demolitions in 2012 by Stratford-upon-Avon District Council.Following on from that permission, the applicant determined that this would not provide a viable return on the investment required, the council said.