CHANGES to a Weymouth seafront hotel have been approved – with the business saying it will improve their ‘customer experience.’

Part of the changes will make it easier to serve drinks to customers who use an outdoor bar area.

The Fairhaven Hotel, a grade two listed building, has had a planning application approved to make changes to the internal layout with alterations to the adjoining property, 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.