Whitbread plans to create hospitality jobs in Sussex with new green buildings

12/01/2010 11:18:04

Hotel and restaurant group Whitbread has confirmed plans for a second green hotel and its first low-carbon restaurant, creating hospitality jobs in Sussex.

The group opened the UK's first green hotel in Tamworth, Staffordshire in December 2008 and its second green venture - a 60-bedroom Premier Inn at Burgess Hill in West Sussex - will adopt the same technologies to ensure 70 per cent carbon and 60 per cent water savings.

Alongside the hotel, Whitbread will build its first low-carbon restaurant.

Both the restaurant and hotel will be constructed using a timber frame from sustainable wood. The frame will have the lowest carbon content of all commercially-available materials and can achieve high levels of efficiency due to its flexible design which aids insulation.

Alan Parker, Whitbread chief executive, said: "The hotel will include many of the best-performing technologies pioneered at our first green hotel in Tamworth."

When the plans were first announced last month, Mr Parker said: "We can help our customers to make a difference and show that action on the environment is most effective when we all work together."

Whitbread has pledged a 26 per cent reduction in carbon emissions by 2020.

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