PLANS for a new Premier Inn for Teignmouth as part of the scheme to regenerate a derelict town centre site have been submitted.

Teignbridge District Council has this week put forward proposals for a 68-bedroom, three storey hotel, and a Beefeater restaurant for part of the Brunswick Street redevelopment scheme.

The council will construct the hotel to the specification agreed by the hotel operator and then the building will then be leased to Whitbread for a minimum of 25 years and is part of a wider regeneration plan for the Brunswick Street area of Teignmouth.

The hotel would be built on the existing Brunswick Street car park site and the former Swanson workshop.

A new health and wellbeing centre, which would include relocation of the town GP practices, increasing town centre car parking, enabling the Teignmouth Arts and Community Group (TAAG) to remain at Northumberland Place and refurbish the building, and a new community facility at Bitton Park in a joint project with Teignmouth Town Council, including a relocation opportunity for the Music Project, are also part of the wider plans.

Cllr Gordon Hook, leader of the council, previously said: ‘This is a very exciting milestone in the economic growth of Teignmouth.’