AN INTERNATIONAL hotelier has won planning permission to build a 123 room hotel in Bridgwater

Applicant, Zeal Hotels submitted plans to Sedgemoor District Council to build a five storey, 123 room Hampton by Hilton hotel at Woodlands Court Business Park, next to the Morrisons Distribution Centre on Bristol Road in Bridgwater. 

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The hotelier's plans show that when complete, the five storey hotel will have 123 rooms, 81 car parking spaces, eight cycle spaces, a fitness suite and a meeting room. 

There will also be an electric car charging port in the hotel's car park. 

The applicant said the new hotel will create up to 25 jobs. 

Zeal Hotels aim to start building the new hotel in early 2018 and hope to open in 2019.