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About Victoria Hotel, Leeds

The Victoria Gate Hotel has been brought forward as part of Hammerson’s City Quarters concept.

The plans, which launched in August 2019, will see the site, which is currently a temporary surface car park, redeveloped to provide a 14-storey hotel catering for business and leisure guests. This new anchor enhances both the offer at Hammerson’s destination and the Leeds cultural quarter, driving additional footfall and spend to the city.

The iconic building will sit adjacent to Victoria Gate in Leeds City Centre and see the regeneration of the land between the existing Victoria Gate multi-storey car park and St Peter’s Street (A61).

Designed by architects Acme, who delivered Victoria Gate, the façade takes inspiration from the surrounding architecture and the city’s rich merchandising and textile history. The hotel will feature 205 spacious rooms, an on-site gym and conferencing facilities. A new contemporary bar and restaurant on the ground floor will welcome both guests and visitors to the City’s Cultural Quarter.

We anticipate that this scheme would support up to approximately 980 construction jobs over the life of the project with the hotel supporting 50 full-time jobs on site upon completion.

The planning application was granted planning consent by Leeds City Council in January 2020 following a public consultation in which the response to the new hotel was overwhelmingly positive. 92% of respondents said that they supported the plans and believed that the proposals would support the continued growth of the city and cultural quarter.

The hotel marks the next step in the continued regeneration of this part of the City Centre, following the development of Victoria Gate by the group in 2016. Hammerson also owns a 10 acre site just north of Victoria Leeds which will be brought forward for development in due course, creating a new mixed-use City Quarters neighbourhood.

Key facts

Bed hotel
205
Bed hotel
Bar and restaurant
1
Bar and restaurant
Construction jobs
980
Construction jobs
Full-time jobs
50
Full-time jobs