Award-winning hotel brand Premier Inn will build a 136 bedroom hotel with car parking spaces and access from Raven Meadows.

Rooms in the hotel will all have an ensuite bathroom, TV with Freeview, and Wi-Fi internet access.

Premier Inn is the UK’s largest budget hotel chain, with over 590 budget hotels and more than 43,000 rooms across the UK and Ireland.

The hotel is expected to open in 2012 and cost around 8 million to construct. The opening will also provide around 40 jobs in the town.