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Peterborough's Great Northern Hotel
Peterborough Telegraph
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04/09/2024
Peterborough MP Andrew Pakes urges the the owner of the city's Great Northern Hotel to get involved in talks about the venue's future in a regenerated Station Quarter
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It's become a sad sight at the heart of the city.
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If the stations could be our gateway, we need the ambition of the Great Northern to be part of it.
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But we also need, that's why I think that the first offer is a hand of friendship to the current owners
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to come and talk to the city, see what they want to bring to the table.
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If they're not willing to do that, we can look at stronger measures to get hold of the hotel
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at a fair price so we can develop it and make it part of our future.
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To me the important bit is the Great Northern plot needs to be involved
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and I would love the Great Northern frontage and the Great Northern building to be part of the future.
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Now if you're really ambitious, you could keep the frontage but you could move it back a whole metre
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and create a bigger square in front of the station.
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For the current owners to come to the table and talk to the council and developers and others
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about what they could bring to the situation, I think it would be lovely to start the ball rolling as quickly as possible.
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My view and others' view, if the current owners don't want to play ball, then we should look at CPOing it.
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That would be a negotiation over what the cost is.
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The new government is changing the law on propulsory purchase orders to strengthen the hand of local authorities
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in terms of the cost of CPOing it.
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It needs to be at market value, which will be different to necessarily what people want to sell at.
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