A WEYMOUTH seafront hotel wants make changes to better serve customers in an outside bar area.

The planning application to Dorset Council is for The Fairhaven Hotel, a grade two listed building.

The application, from Wild Oak Property Ltd, involves changes to the hotel internal layout its windows with alterations to the adjoining property,  which was previously the Panorama Restaurant.

Planning agent say the proposed changes will enhance the Conservation Area: “Specifically, the current proposal has been designed to address the requirement to allow for drinks to be served to customers of the hotel in a safer and more efficient manner and to restore the ground floor fenestration of the building to a pattern more closely matching its original format which consisted of three windows.”

Part of the proposals include removing two existing modern windows, replacing them with new windows which will be more in keeping with the building and will also allow two of them to be opened for drinks to be served to customers who sit outside the hotel.

Inside new walls in the living room area will create an area for staff to serve drinks from with a new storage area and a new bar in the adjoining property (no 37) between the bottom of the stairs and the lift.

Application reference - P/FUL/2024/03435: 37:38 The Esplanade Weymouth DT4 8DH, Fairhaven Hotel. Changes to ground floor front elevation fenestration and internal layouts to create new outside bar area.

Illustration – Drawing of the proposed changes to the Fairhaven Hotel and adjoining property.

Pic – The Fairhaven Hotel and adjoining property – July 2023 Google.