Premier Inn London East

Premier Inn announced as occupier of new 28-storey hotel at Canary Wharf gateway

Premier Inn has confirmed it will occupy a new 400-bedroom hotel in Westferry, east London, in what will be one of the largest Premier Inn hotels in the UK.

Whitbread, Premier Inn's parent company, will take a 30-year lease of the hotel and restaurant within the 30-storey mixed-use scheme which is at the gateway to Canary Wharf, next to Westferry DLR station.

The development will also include private and affordable residential accommodation, community space, retail units and a ground floor Whitbread-branded restaurant all set in a landscaped public realm.

Rockwell Property, the development partner leading the development, was granted planning permission on the site - which has been derelict for more than a decade - by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in October.

On completion, the hotel will be the tallest Premier Inn in the UK and Whitbread's largest hotel in London (outside of airport hotels).