PREMIER Inn, the UK's largest hotel chain, is planning to build a £6.5m 60-bedroom hotel and 200-cover Beefeater Grill restaurant on Guildford Road in Farnham.

The site, next to the Farnham Retail Park, is currently occupied by businesses including Farnham Carriage Company, a second-hand car sales business.

The leasehold site is one of five in the region included in Premier Inn's ongoing national expansion plans. The others are in Farnborough, Fleet, Portsmouth and Wokingham.

If planning consent is granted later this year, Whitbread, Premier Inn's parents company, is aiming to have the hotel in Guildford Road up and running in 2014.

For full story, see this week's Farnham Herald.