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idy. I’m sure Gavin & Stacey’s Nessa would approve of the latest addition to Barry’s Waterfront – the 80-bed Premier Inn hotel and Brewers Fayre
restaurant in the Glamorgan town’s new Innovation Quarter. Opening this autumn, the new hotel and restaurant will occupy a prime position overlooking Fford Y Mileniwm and Barry’s No 1 Dock, regenerating around two acres of former industrial land. The Innovation Quarter is a 19-acre, mixed-use urban quarter development area at the west end of Barry Waterfront, managed by the Vale of Glamorgan Council in partnership with the Welsh Government. Alongside the new
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hotel and restaurant development site is the recently restored, Grade II-listed Hydraulic Pumphouse. Premier Inn and Brewers Fayre are
part of the Whitbread group, which is investing £7.5m in the Barry development. On completion the building will have an Excellent BREEAM rating – making it one of the greenest and most energy-efficient in south Wales (see box for design features). This latest opening builds on a design
ethos going back to 2008/2009, when Whitbread decided to look at its energy use and carbon production, and set itself some challenging targets; the group aims to reduce relative carbon emissions by
25% by 2017, from a 2009 baseline. ‘Our carbon targets came out of a wider look at corporate responsibility back in 2008/9,’ explains Ben Brakes, environment manager at Whitbread. ‘There was a realisation that carbon has a financial value attached to it and so, by reducing carbon, you are reducing costs – which goes straight on the bottom line and is going to give you a competitive advantage.’
Track record With more than 600 Premier Inn hotels and hundreds of restaurants under its various brands, Whitbread is the UK’s leading hospitality company. It is better
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