PREMIER Inn’s new hotel in Oban is expected to create 25 new jobs and open in spring 2018 – if it can secure permission from Network Rail to work close to the train station.
In May, Argyll and Bute Council approved a plan to build an 81-bedroom Premier Inn in Oban, by demolishing the disused bowling alley at 56 Shore Street.
The planning application, submitted by the hotel brand’s owner Whitbread PLC, illus trated a four-storey building of contemporary design, with a restaurant and bar seating 80, and with 90 car park spaces on the 0.88-acre site.