Far too big and in the wrong place

The building is more than 150 times the area of the existing bungalow on the site.

It fails to meet numerous planning guidelines and the five floors of this design and the tiny site are entirely inappropriate for the Warwick Conservation Area.

We have been informed that the Racecourse is currently being investigated by the district council for not having the correct planning permissions for their “conference centre”.

The Racecourse could have saved itself considerable expenditure if it had only listened to the clear message at its consultation which was overwhelmingly against a hotel on this site!

Spurious claims have been made that Warwick is somehow short of hotel accommodation, a fact not supported by hotels locally recently going into receivership, or that a huge new hotel is already under construction at the Warwick IBM site and two more hotels look certain to be built on the Ford and Regency Aracde sites.

There are other locations available for the Jockey Club to build their budget hotel, that do not damage the historic views, impinge on the setting of listed buildings, wont increase the chronic air pollution, traffic congestion, and won’t harm the character of St Mary Lands and our wonderful town. - Nigel Hamilton, Hampton Street Warwick.